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171. Harley MS 6512

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6512
Title:
Sozomeno da Pistoia, Annotations on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-18v: Fragmentary annotations by the humanist Sozomeno da Pistoia (b. 1387, d. 1458) on Horace's Satires and Odes, and Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum. The old foliation (nos. 56, 57, 49, 64, 65, 72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96) indicates that the leaves were once part of a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427-c 1458
Extent:
1 volume

172. Harley MS 6516

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6516
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (b. 86 BC, d. c. 35 BC), also known as Sallust. De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline) chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government of Rome by the aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC. De Bello ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

173. Harley MS 6519

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6519
Title:
Poggio Bracciolini, De Nobilitate Vera
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De Nobilitate Vera was completed on 27 September 1446 (f. 18v). Contents: Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459): De Nobilitate Vera (About True Nobility).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1446
Extent:

1 volume

174. Harley MS 6525

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6525
Title:
Johannes Gallicus, Ritus canendi vetutissimus et novus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus (The oldest and the new custom of singing), a musical treatise concerning the teaching and performance of plainchant, written by the French humanist and musical theorist Johannes Gallicus (b. c. 1415, d. 147...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

175. Harley MS 7642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7642
Title:
Commentaries on Aristotle's Analytica Priora and Analytica Posteriora
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two texts with commentaries on Aristotle that were separately produced in Italy in the 14th century, and joined together at a later stage. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-46r: Commentary by Jacobus de Clohac on the Analytica priora of Aristotle, entitled: 'Sum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

176. Harley MS 7645

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7645
Title:
Giuliano di Giovanni Ricci, Sunto e Ristretto delle Casaste e Famiglie Fiorentine
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-89r: Giuliano di Giovanni Ricci, Sunto e Ristretto delle Casaste e Famiglie Fiorentine, beginning: ‘Sunto, e Ristretto Delle Casate, e Famiglie Fiorentine antiche, e moderne, con la distinzione de’ tempi , c cominciarono ad hauere honori nella Citta si per la maggiore, come pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

177. Kings MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 16
Title:
Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), preceded by brief vitae and hypotheses
Scope & Content:
Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001). Each book except Book I preceded by one or two monostich summaries. Prose ὑπόθεσις at the start of Book II (f 13r) and scholia relating to Book I 331-341 (ff 7v-8r). Preceded by two brief lives of Homer (f 1r), inc. 1. ῞Ομηρος ὁ ποιητὴς υἱὸς ἦν. κατὰ μέν τινας Μαίω...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1431
Extent:

1 volume

178. Kings MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 21
Title:
Cicero, Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Philippicae (Philippics), a series of speeches delivered by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), condemning Mark Anthony (b. 83 BC, d. 30 BC) in the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC). C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

179. Sloane MS 1712

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1712
Title:
Ars Notoria texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: Two texts of the Ars Notoria, a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as granted by God to Solomon: ff. 1r-22r: The Ars Notoria, with the rubric, 'Ars Notoria Salomonis, Machinei e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

180. Sloane MS 1774

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1774
Title:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin
Scope & Content:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin, ff 1r-45r, followed by a note on παιανισμός, f 45v. The Greek text of the Hippolytus is a copy of the Aldine edition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume