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1. Harley MS 8-9

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 8-9
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar and Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary
Scope & Content:
Anglo-Saxon Latin grammar of Ælfric of Eynsham, copied from the manuscript in Cambridge University, followed by an Anglo-Saxon Latin glossary. Marginal comments by Simonds D'Ewes (1602-1650) and Franciscus Junius (1591-1677). Overall title page at the beginning of each volume. Contents: Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

2 volumes

2. 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

3. Harley MS 2674

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

4. Harley MS 2688, ff 17r-22v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688, ff 17r-22v
Title:
A circular diagram of the winds; John Scotus Eriugena, epitaph for Hincmar of Reims; Greek and Latin grammatical lists; Excerpt from Proverbs; Hymn to St Michael (with neumes)
Scope & Content:
This miscellanous collection of texts originally formed the initial gathering of Harley MS 3095, a 10th-century manuscript of Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524)'s works. A later scribe has added in the 11th century the hymn (ff. 17v-18r). This part includes: Contents: f. 17r: A circular diagram of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

5. Harley MS 2688, ff 47r-54v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2688, ff 47r-54v
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (books 4-5)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 47r-54v: Priscian (fl. 500), Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), books 4-5 with interlinear and marginal glosses, begins imperfectly in chapter 2 of book 4, beginning: '[...] in tus desinentibus derivantur abiecta .s. assumunt do ut habitus habitudo'; ending imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 2688

6. Harley MS 2713

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

7. Harley MS 2719

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

8. Harley MS 2725

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

9. Harley MS 2735

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2735
Title:
Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:
The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2763
Title:
Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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