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2571. Harley MS 2561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2561
Title:
Collection of texts on virtues and vices
Scope & Content:
A collection of Classical and Patristic texts by Renaissance authors, mainly excerpts, relating to virtues and vices. Contents: ff. 1r-5v: ‘Tabula Philosophi per Alphabetum’, begins ‘Abstinere a comestione nimia summa est medicina (libro de regimine principum)…’ An alphabetical list of citatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2572. Harley MS 2562

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2562
Title:
Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Vita Terentii. f. 1v: Argumentum fabulae Andriae. ff. 2r-277v: Terence, Comoediae; including Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timoroumenos, Hecyra, Phormio, Adelphi, and versuum distinctione; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large initials in red. Abbreviations of protagonis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
1 volume

2573. Harley MS 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2563
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Terence's epitaph. ff. 1r-170v: Terence, Comoediae; with marginal annotations throughout. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 2*, 167v, 168v-170r: Numerous annotations in various hands, some in Italian, mainly late 15th-century-early 16th century. Decoration: C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2574. Harley MS 2564

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2564
Title:
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Fasti
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109r: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Fasti. ff. 109v-112r: a calendar of Roman festivals based on Ovid's Fasti from January to June. ff. 113v-115r: a poem in rhyming couplets about the birth of Christ in Italian. The manuscript has a later addition: f.117r: Guarinus Veronensi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2575. Harley MS 2565

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2565
Title:
Ovid, Heroides; Remedia amoris; Philomela; Nux; Pseudo-Ovid, De pulice
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-86r: Ovid, Heroides. ff. 87r-104r: Ovid, Remedia amoris. ff. 104v-105r: Pseudo-Ovid, De pulice. ff. 105-106v: Ovid, Philomela. ff. 107-110v: Ovid, Nux. The manuscript contains a few later additions: f. ii recto: A title inscription. f. 1v: A list of contents added in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1477-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

2576. Harley MS 2569

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2569
Title:
Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem and Apophtegmata laconica; Guarino da Verona, Dedifferentia veri amici et adulatoris; Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-47r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem; introduced by a letter of Francesco Filelfo (b. 1398, d. 1481), to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (r. 1412, d. 1447). ff. 48r-75r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata laconica; translated by Francesco Filelfo and by Guarino da Verona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2577. Harley MS 2570

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2570
Title:
Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Epistulae; Petrarch, Flosculi excerpti ex remediis utriusque fortune; Plato, letters translated by Leonardo Bruni; Plutarch, De Liberis Educandis translated by Guarinus Veronensis; anonymous orations; Poggio Bracciolini, letters; Antonio Beccaria, letter to Antonius Nogarolensis; Guarinus Veronensis, letter; excerpts form Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita; Poggio Bracciolini, Invective against Philelphus; Funebris oratio habita per Gasparem Tribrachum Mutinensem ...
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a trimmed membrane from a 13th-century roll used as a flyleaf. ff. 1r-56r: Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger), Epistulae. ff. 57r-144r: Petrarch, Flosculi excerpti ex remediis utriusque fortune. ff. 145r-157v: Plato, Letters translated by Leonardo Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2578. Harley MS 2571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2571
Title:
An anthology of poems, letters and treatises by Italian humanists
Scope & Content:
An anthology of poems, letters and treatises by various Italian humanists. Contents: ff. 1r: Added title-page drawn in ink with the arms of cardinal D. Gerardus, to whom the book is dedicated, 17th century. f. 1v: blank. ff. 2r-29r: Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380, d. 1459), De nobilitate, ends ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1442
Extent:
1 volume

2579. Harley MS 2574

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2574
Title:
A collection of classical and humanistic poetry
Scope & Content:
A humanistic collection of classical and humanistic poetry. Contents: ff. 1r-34r: Tibullus, Elegies (books 1-3), followed by Epitaph of Tibullus and Vita Tibulli. ff. 34v-102v: Propertius, Elegies (books 1-4). ff.102v-141v: Catullus, Poems, followed by verses of De Campesanis. ff. 141v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450-1460
Extent:
1 volume

2580. Harley MS 2575

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2575
Title:
Metrical and grammatical miscellany including Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica, and Gasparino Barzizza, Tractatus de punctis
Scope & Content:
A humanistic miscellany containing various metrical and grammatical treatises by classical and humanist scholars. Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Leonicenus Omnibonus (b. 1412, d. 1480), De arte metrica, begins 'Pes in metro dicitur quod pedis fungitur officio. Metra enim per pedes...' ends 'Explicit ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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