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1. Harley MS 2637

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2637
Title:
Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 2666

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

3. Harley MS 2685

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

4. Harley MS 2830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2830
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins. ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 5v-58v: Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 3095

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3095
Title:
Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:
The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 3771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3771
Title:
Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione; Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: ff. 2r-11r: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione (Chronology or tract on the duration of the world), beginning: 'Quantocumque tempore, in divinis legibus'. ff. 11r-145v: Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica, a chronicle about the Merovingian k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

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