Project / Collection: England and France 700-1200 Project / Digitised Content: Yes (available) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2652
Title:: Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2659
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius) by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also contains several works attributed to Seneca, including the Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2666
Title:: Sextus Iulius Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Iulius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. It represents the oldest extant copy of Frontinus’ work (see Bachrach, ‘A Lying Legacy’ (2007), p. 160). Contents: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2674
Title:: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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 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 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2713
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2719
Title:: Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2725
Title:: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Carmina (Odes), Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), Epodae (Epodes), Carmen Saeculare (Hymn for a New Age), Epistulae (Letters) and Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poet Horace (b. 65 BC, d. 8 BC). It also includes marginal and interlinear glosses for the entire text. Conten...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Search