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1. Harley MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 261
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:
This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2608

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2608
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the epic poem Thebais (Thebaid) by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (b. 45, d. 96). Contents: ff. 2r-110r: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais, with marginal and interlinear glosses, preceded by a verse of the 5th-century poet Coelius Sedulius (fl. 5th century): ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 2652

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

6. Harley MS 2659

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Harley MS 2688, ff 23r-46v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688, ff 23r-46v
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus's works, including: Epodeae, Carmen saeculare; Epistulae and Satires (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Four works by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC-8 BC) with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 23r-29r: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epodeae (Epode), 8.12-17.81 (imperfect). ff. 29r-30v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmen saeculare (Secular hymn). ff. 30v-43v: Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

10. Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v
Title:
Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 55r-66v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De musica (On music), books 1-2, with marginal glosses, beginning: '[O]mnium quidem percepcio sensum'; ending: 'Nunc voluminis seriem fastidii vitator astringam'. Decoration: Space left for an initial at the beginning of the text. Initials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

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