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2701. Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v
Title:
Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 55r-66v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De musica (On music), books 1-2, with marginal glosses, beginning: '[O]mnium quidem percepcio sensum'; ending: 'Nunc voluminis seriem fastidii vitator astringam'. Decoration: Space left for an initial at the beginning of the text. Initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

2702. Harley MS 2689

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2689
Title:
Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the Comoediae (Comedies) of the Roman African playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), commonly known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Terence, Andria; ff. 39r-81v: Terence, Eunuchus; ff. 8v-121v: Terence, Heauton Timorumenos; f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2703. Harley MS 2690

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2690
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: Cicero, De amicitia. ff. 1*, 2*, 65 and [65a] are parchment flyleaves; ff. 1* and [65a] are former pastedowns. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with candelabras, a snail, a dolphin, birds, putti including two supporting a cardinal's unidentified coat of ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2704. Harley MS 2691

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2691
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of works by the Italian humanist teacher, scholar, and translator Guarino da Verona (b. 1370, d. 1460), including his Latin translation of Pseudo-Plutarch's De liberis educandis, which he dedicated to his student Angelo Corbinelli (d. 1419). Contents: ff. 1r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2705. Harley MS 2692

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2692
Title:
Cicero, De Officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Officiis (On Duties), a treatise written in 44 BC by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-155v: Cicero, De Officiis. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with all'antica elements and historiated initial at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1498
Extent:
1 volume

2706. Harley MS 2694

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2694
Title:
Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Natura rerum (On the Nature of Things), a poem concerning the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, written by the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus (b. c. 99, d. c. 55 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-137v: Titus Lucretius Carus, De Natura rerum. Decoration: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2707. Harley MS 2695

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2695
Title:
Collection of classical and humanistic texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of classical texts, including works by the Roman poets Virgil (b. 70, d. 19 BC) and Ovid (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18) and the Christian poet Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 325). It also includes a Latin translation of the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2708. Harley MS 2696

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2696
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Three-sided floral border with a large white vine initial and an unidentified coat of arms in colours and gold (f. 1r). 5 smaller white vine initials in colours and gold (ff. 12v, 35v, 42v, 44r, 48v). Initials in blue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2709. Harley MS 2698

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2698
Title:
Giles of Rome, De regimine principum; Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an imperfect copy of De officiis (On duties), a treatise by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), featuring marginal and interlinear annotations. It is preceded by a fragment of Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum, a guide book for Christian tem...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1423
Extent:
1 volume

2710. Harley MS 2700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2700
Title:
Martial, Epigrams
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Epigrams by the Roman poet Martial (b. c. 41-d. c. 102). Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly working in Padua, and by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518). The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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