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1. Add MS 10084

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Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’. ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’. ff. 94r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Add MS 11943

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Title:
Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 11983

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Title:
Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1075-c 1125
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Add MS 15600

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Title:
Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires with scholia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Satires (Satires) by the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenal (b. c. 50, d. after 127), together with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1v-125r: Juvenal, Satires, with interlinear and marginal scholia, preceded by a biographical prologue beginning ‘Iuniu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd or 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Add MS 15601

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Title:
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae; Lupus of Ferrières, De Metris Boetii Libellus; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae; Commentary on Persius’ Satires; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus; Prudentius, Psychomachia, Cathemerinon; a short tract on prosody and meter; Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Consolatio Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) of Boethius (b. 480, d. 524) with interlinear and marginal glosses, De Metris Boetii Libellus (A Treatise on Boethius’ Meter) by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 805, d. 862) and the Ilias Latina (Latin Illiad) by Baebius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 16964

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Title:
John Cassian, De Institutiones Coenobiorum; Collationes Sanctum Patrum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is made out of two parts (part 1: ff. 1-167; part 2: ff. 168-248) that were produced separately at the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia) in the last quarter of the 12th century and were joined there as well. The resulting manuscript contains complete copies of De Instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 16984

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Title:
Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: This 12th-century manuscript consists of two treatises dedicated to the art of rhetoric. Although they were composed by different authors, the two rhetorical works are closely related. The De Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 38818, ff 1-135

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Add MS 38818, ff 1-135
Title:
Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts)
Scope & Content:
This part was copied by a hand described as 'Continental-looking' (unpublished notes by Michael Gullick). The copy of De Architectura (On Architecture) derives from an English version of the text (see Texts and Transmission (1983), p. 443). Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Palladius (fl. 4th century), D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

9. Add MS 47678

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Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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