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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2763
Title:: Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2764
Title:: Tacitus, Annales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-168: Tacitus, Annales. The gold initial 'I'(n) on f. 1 is an addition, cut from another manuscript and pasted into the original white vine border. Originally, the sentence would have read: 'Nam Valerium Asiaticum, bis consulem, fuisse quondam adulterum ejus credidit…' (Tacitus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1452
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2766
Title:: Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis
Scope & Content:: Iulius Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis. Decoration: Initials in red. Place left for an initial at the beginning of the prologue (f. 1r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 48 folios (including 1 blank folio after f. 2).

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2767
Title:: Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2768
Title:: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources. Contents: ff. 1r-297v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae (Attic Nights). [ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2769
Title:: Ovid, Metamorphoses
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-2v: A former pastedown and flyleaf, with an added 15th-century table of contents and prologue. ff. 3r-196v: Ovid, Metamorphoses, with commentary. f. 197r-v was originally blank leaf with added 15th-century text. Added annotations throughout. Decoration: Large initial in co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2770
Title:: Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'. ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ill...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2771
Title:: Cicero, Orator; De claris oratoribus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC): Orator, his last work on rhetoric, written three years before his death, and De claris oratoribus (On famous orators), a history of Roman oratory. The anonymous scribe of the manuscript was also...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1430-c. 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2772
Title:: Fragments of works by Virgil, Juvenal, Sedulius and Macrobius
Scope & Content:: A collection of Latin texs bound together: ff. 1r-15v: Virgil, Aeneid; ff. 16r-25v: Juvenal, Satires; ff. 26r-27v: Juvenal, Satires; ff. 28r-43v: Caelius Sedulius, Carmen paschale; ff. 44r-74v: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; ff. 75r-90v: Commentary on Juvenal's Satires
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1000-1100
Extent:: A parchment codex, 90 folios

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