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2681. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2682. Harley MS 2672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2672
Title:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8, incipit: '[F]acturus ne sim operae pretium si a primordio'. Decoration: Plain initials in dark brown ink (f. 51r), outlined initials (ff. 108r, 151r), or spaces left for initials at the beginning of books (ff. 1r, 26v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

2683. Harley MS 2673

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2673
Title:
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Ovid, Metamorphoses (ending imperfectly at Book 15, line 411, 'Id quoque quod ventis animal nutritur et aura', due to loss of leaves). Decoration: Large initial in colours with a putto and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a partial border (f. 1r). L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2684. Harley MS 2674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2674
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2685. Harley MS 2675

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2675
Title:
Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15r: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Catiline Conspiracy); ff. 16r-44r: Sallust, De Bello Jugurthino (On the Jugurthine War). The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 15v: an unidentified text (possibly a commentary on Sallust's history). [f. 44v is blan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1400
Extent:
1 volume

2686. Harley MS 2676

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2676
Title:
Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border in colours and gold, inhabited by birds, with the Medici coat of arms in the lower margin, supported by putti, and a very large white vine initial 'L'(ibros) in colours and gold at the beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1465-1467
Extent:

356 folios.

2687. Harley MS 2677

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2677
Title:
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia Naturalis
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold of Pliny writing in his study, and a landscape with animals, rivers, the sea, sun and moon, combined with a large white vine initial and a three-sided white vine border containing birds ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1457-1458
Extent:
509 folios.

2688. Harley MS 2680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2680
Title:
Servius, Commentaries on Virgil
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-17r: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues (of Bucolica) rubric: 'INCIPIT EXPOSITIO SERVII GRAMMATICI IN BUCOLICIS VIRGILII MARONIS’, incipit: 'Bucolica ut ferunt a custodia boun.' ff. 17v-53v: Servius, Commentary on Virgil’s Georgics, rubric: 'EXPOSITIO SERVII GRAMMATICI IN LIBRIS GE...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1450-c 1470
Extent:
Parchment codex

2689. Harley MS 2681

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2681
Title:
Cicero, Orationes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-305: Cicero, Orationes, copied from an edition published in Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz in 1471, according to Reeve, 'Manuscripts' (1983). Decoration: 1 half-page miniature with a man standing before an assembly, with a scribe writes down the proceedings, in the style of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1483
Extent:
1 volume

2690. Harley MS 2682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2682
Title:
Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, Laelius de amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute, various speeches (including Philippicae, Orationes in Catilinam, Pro Marcello), Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Officiis; Pseudo-Quintus Tullius Cicero, De petitione consulatus; Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Sallusti; Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola magni Alexandri ad Aristotelem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, containing mainly works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), has long been an important source for scholarship and textual criticism on Cicero’s works. It was first collated in the late-16th century by the Flemish jurist and humanist François Modius (b. 1556, d. 1597)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

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