Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2504
Title:: Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum; Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-152r: Johannes de Floremontis, Commentarius in Valerium Maximum. ff. 153r-182r: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia. Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in blue and red with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). 9 smaller blue and red puzzle initials with red pen-flourishin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1458
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2505
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-150r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares. ff. 150r-150v: Fabritius and Emilius, letter to Pyrrhus; ending with the colophon: 'Per manus Johannis de Westphalia'. ff. 150v-151r: Ovid, De Pulice (The Flea). ff. 151r-151v: 'Carmen illustris quondam ducis Mediolani...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506
Title:: Collection of astronomical and astrological treatises
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Hyginus, De astronomia (ff. 1r-30r); 2. Priscian, De duodecim signis (ff. 30r-30v); 3. Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum (ff. 30v-32r); 4. De nominibus stellarum (ff. 33r-35r); 5. Marcus Tullius...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990-c 1000
Extent:: 93 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 30v-32r
Title:: Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum
Scope & Content:: Two texts by Abbo of Fleury, De differentia circuli et sphere, and De cursu septem planetarum per zodiacum circulum. Decoration: a diagram of lunar phases (f. 31v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2506, ff 36r-48v
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena)
Scope & Content:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena). Decoration: 21 images of constellation figures painted by an Anglo-Saxon artist of the Ramsey Psalter (Harley MS 2904) working on the continent (ff. 36r-44v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 990 - c 1000
Extent:: 12 folios.

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