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3321. Harley MS 4856

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4856
Title:
Virgil, Bucolics, Georgics, and Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-30: Virgil, Bucolics. pp. 31-109: Virgil, Georgics. pp. 110-466: Virgil, Aeneid. pp. 466-469: Pseudo-Ovid, summary of the Aeneid. Horizontal and vertical catchwords. From the same workshop, and possibly by the same scribe, as Harley 5300, a copy of Juvenal. Decoration: 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3322. Harley MS 4857

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4857
Title:
Petrarch, Rime and Trionfi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-6*r: Table of first lines. f. 1*: Added pasted on inscribed piece of parchment. ff. 1r-142v: Petrarch, Rime. ff. 143r-179v: Petrarch, Trionfi. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border inhabited by animals and putti, with 1 large initial in colours and gold and a coat of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3323. Harley MS 4858

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4858
Title:
Writings of Senaca and Cicero
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae (Letters of Senaca). ff. 10r-11: Seneca, De quatuor virtutibus (On the Four Virtues). f. 12v: Quotes from Seneca’s writings, in a later hand. ff. 13r-108v: Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), or Letters from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3324. Harley MS 4859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4859
Title:
Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, with an index of Latin words and phrases
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-201r: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, written in Latin prose, with numerous marginal notes; beginning with a list of contents (f. 1r-v); the text beginning, 'Plutarcus in libro quem de Herculis...' ff. 201v-205r: Index of Latin words, arranged alphabetically, followed by an in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3325. Harley MS 4860

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4860
Title:
Commentary on the Psalms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-181v: Commentary on the Psalms, including Oddo Astensis, Expositio in Psalmos (Psalms 1-110), followed by an unidentified commentary on Psalms 111-150. The manuscript contains later additions: Added marginal notes from the 15th and/or 16th-century throughout (two including p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3326. Harley MS 4861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4861
Title:
Poems and emblems in honour of Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Illustrated poems in honour of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (b. 1619, d. 1683), Marquis de Seignelay. Decoration: Dedicatory frontispiece in colours and gold with the arms of Jean Baptiste Colbert (f. 1r). 7 full-page miniatures in colours and gold with verses and mottos in Col...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3327. Harley MS 4862

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4862
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-122r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera (Works). [f. 122v is blank]. Decoration: 1 white vine border bounded by gold lines, on a coloured ground, including an author portrait of Horace in a roundel, 2 putti, and an unidentified coat of arms, with a large initial in gold, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:

1 volume

3328. Harley MS 4863

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4863
Title:
Silius Italicus, Punica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Punica, an epic poem in 17 books, written by the Roman consul and orator Silius Italicus (b. c. 28, d. c. 103). The poem relates the story of the Second Punic War and the conflict between the two generals Hannibal and Scipio Africanus. Contents: ff. 1r-117v: Sili...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3329. Harley MS 4865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4865
Title:
Writings of Sallust and Cicero
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Catilinarian Orations), imperfect, wanting the first leaves. ff. 28r-97r: Sallust, Bellum Iurgurthinum (The Jurgurthine War). f. 98r: Cicero, De legibus (On the Laws), imperfect. f. 98v: Table of contents. ff. 100r-154: Cicero, De legibu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3330. Harley MS 4866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4866
Title:
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes. The poem was composed in c. 1410-1411 and addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales (the future Henry V). This manuscript is one the early copies of the text and was possibly prepared under the supervision of Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1411-c 1420
Extent:

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