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21. Harley MS 1895

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1895
Title:
Pomponius Mela, De Cosmographia; Faltonia Betitita Proba, excerpts from Virgil with paraphrases of the Old and New Testaments; Cornelius Tacitus, Germania
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: Pomponius Mela, De Cosmographia, in three books. ff. 23r-34v: Faltonia Betitita Proba, excerpts from Virgil with paraphrases of the Old and New Testaments. ff. 35r-42r: Cornelius Tacitus, Germania. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Harley MS 2453

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2453
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-211v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Ink drawing of a hunting scene (boar hunt) drawn in the space left below the text (ff. 54v-55r). Large initials in red and/or brown ink with crowned figures and various motifs extending into the margin (ff. 2r, 23v), or made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1435
Extent:
1 volume

23. Harley MS 2459

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2459
Title:
Commentary on Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-110v: Commentary on Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico. Decoration: 7 large white vine initials in colours (early white vine type) at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 20v, 31r, 40v, 51v, 69v, 82v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

24. Harley MS 2470

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2470
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-250v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with reserved designs and pen-flourishing in the same colours at the beginning of the text (f. 1r). Large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing and green wash including fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

25. Harley MS 2473

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2473
Title:
Publius Virgilius Maro, Aeneid, with marginal gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: A genealogy of Roman gods, beginning with 'Demorgorgon'. f. 4v: Names of rivers ('Nomina fluminorum'). f. 5r: Commentary on the Aneid. ff. 5v-168r: Publius Virgilius Maro, Aeneid, with marginal gloss; ending with the colophon: 'Explicit liber duodecimus Eneydos Maroni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

26. Harley MS 2474

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2474
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-166v: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais. Decoration: Large initial in colours and gold at the beginning of each book, with acanthus leaves, flowers, besants and brown pen-flourishing extending into the margin (ff. 1r, 13r, 38r), or more contained with foliate decoration and no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

27. Harley MS 2482

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2482
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-205r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 205v, 206v: Latin annotations in various 15th-century hands, including a poem by Claudian (beginning: '(beginning: 'Nil adeo foedum est quod non exacta vetustas') and Martial (beginnin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Harley MS 2483

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2483
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-247v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Historiated initial in colours of Seneca in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins, and, probably added in the 16th century, foliate decoration in the lower margin with a coat of arms with wolves on a gate t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

29. Harley MS 2496

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2496
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-83v: Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195, d. 159 BC), also known as Terence, Comoediae (Comedies), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 84v: Excerpts from Terence, Adelphoe (The Brothers). [ff. [83a]recto, [83a]verso, 84r are blank]. Decoration: Medium decorated initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465
Extent:

1 volume

30. Harley MS 2502

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2502
Title:
Virgil, Eclogues; Georgica; Aeneid (excerpts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-13r: Publius Vergilius Maro (b. 70, d. 19 BC), also known as Virgil, Eclogues (Bucolics). ff. 13r-46r: Virgil, Georgica (Georgics). ff. 47-136: Virgil, Aeneid (excerpts), with an excerpt of the ‘Epitome Illiados Homeri’ that elsewhere has been spuriously attributed to Pind...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1465
Extent:

1 volume