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1. Harley MS 2725

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Harley MS 2725
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Carmina (Odes), Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), Epodae (Epodes), Carmen Saeculare (Hymn for a New Age), Epistulae (Letters) and Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poet Horace (b. 65 BC, d. 8 BC). It also includes marginal and interlinear glosses for the entire text. Conten...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 8-9

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Harley MS 8-9
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar and Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary
Scope & Content:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar of Ælfric of Eynsham, copied from the manuscript in Cambridge University, followed by an Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary. Marginal comments by Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650) and Franciscus Junius (1591-1677). Overall title page at the beginning of each volume. Contents: Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

2 volumes

3. Harley MS 2719

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Harley MS 2719
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 2790

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Harley MS 2790
Title:
The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 2763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2763
Title:
Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 2735

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Harley MS 2735
Title:
Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:
The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 2637

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2637
Title:
Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Harley MS 3034

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Harley MS 3034
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de passione domini
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Excerpts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies)books VI, VIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX, with added titles in the margins (ff. 9v-10r). For detailed contents, see Steinová 'Innovating Knowledge' online. ff. 11v-58r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 2713

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2713
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 3095

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3095
Title:
Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:
The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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