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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2683
Title:: Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Commentarii de Bello Civili: Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino, De Bello Africano, and De Bello Hispanico.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript includes Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100, d. 44 BC)'s Commentarii de Bello Gallico: his first-hand account of the Roman military campaigns in Gaul in seven books, supplemented with an eight book written by Aulus Hirtius (d. 43 BC), a legate of Caesar. The account is followed by Caesa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2684
Title:: Livy, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-213: Livy, Ab urbe condita. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold and a wreath designed for a coat of arms in the lower margin (f. 1)r. 9 large white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 24r, 48v, 69r, 89v, 109v, 131v, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: middle of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2685
Title:: Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Mythologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and 10th-century interlinear and marginal glosses. ff. 24r-35v: Fulgentius Mythographus (fl. 500), Mythologiae (Mythologies), preceded by capitula (f. 24r)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2686
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text. The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between Isidore and Braulio (ff. 1r-4v) (PL, 83, cols. 908D-914...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2687
Title:: Cicero, Orationes in Verrem; Philippicae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains copies of two collections of speeches by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). In Verrem (Against Verres) is a series of speeches made by Cicero in 70 BC, during the corruption and extortion trial of Gaius Verres (b. c. 120, d. 43 BC), the former gov...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688
Title:: A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Carmen saeculare; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Satires; Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Boethius, De musica
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany made of five texts of different dates and origins (ff. 1-16; 17-22; 23-46; 47-54; 55-66), probably bound together after Edward Harley acquired the last part (ff. 55-66). Each text is separated by unfoliated parchment interleaves, which remain blank. Con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 1r-16v
Title:: Liudprand of Cremona, Antapodosis, (books 1-4) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Liudprand (b. c 922, d. c 972), bishop of Cremona, Antapodosis (Retribution), books 1-4, dedicated to Recemundus, bishop of Elvira, imperfect at the end, beginning: 'In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti incipit liber ανταπoδοσιν regum atque principum partis europe ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 17r-22v
Title:: A circular diagram of the winds; John Scotus Eriugena, epitaph for Hincmar of Reims; Greek and Latin grammatical lists; Excerpt from Proverbs; Hymn to St Michael (with neumes)
Scope & Content:: This miscellanous collection of texts originally formed the initial gathering of Harley MS 3095, a 10th-century manuscript of Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524)'s works. A later scribe has added in the 11th century the hymn (ff. 17v-18r). This part includes: Contents: f. 17r: A circular diagram of t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 23r-46v
Title:: Quintus Horatius Flaccus's works, including: Epodeae, Carmen saeculare; Epistulae and Satires (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Four works by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC-8 BC) with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 23r-29r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epodeae (Epode), 8.12-17.81 (imperfect). ff. 29r-30v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmen saeculare (Secular hymn). ff. 30v-43v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 47r-54v
Title:: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (books 4-5)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 47r-54v: Priscian (fl. 500), Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), books 4-5 with interlinear and marginal glosses, begins imperfectly in chapter 2 of book 4, beginning: '[...] in tus desinentibus derivantur abiecta .s. assumunt do ut habitus habitudo'; ending imperfe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

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