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2. Harley MS 2569
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2569
- Title:
- Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem and Apophtegmata laconica; Guarino da Verona, Dedifferentia veri amici et adulatoris; Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-47r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata ad Traianum Cesarem; introduced by a letter of Francesco Filelfo (b. 1398, d. 1481), to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (r. 1412, d. 1447). ff. 48r-75r: Plutarch, Apophtegmata laconica; translated by Francesco Filelfo and by Guarino da Verona...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
3. Harley MS 2631
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2631
- Title:
- Cicero, De senectute; Paradoxa stoicorum; Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Invectiva ad hypocritas; Cicero Novus; Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis, in a Latin translation by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; Demosthenes, De Chersoneso; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; De amicitia
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a collection of classical and humanistic texts including a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes, and a biography of Cicero by the Italian historian and statesman Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (b. 1370...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1427-1430
- Extent:
- 1 volume
4. Harley MS 3208
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3208
- Title:
- Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler, in Spanish translation
- Scope & Content:
- An elegant copy of the Spanish translation of an excerpt from Plutarch's treatise To an Uneducated Ruler (Ad principem ineruditum), possibly presented to a Spanish king (either Philip II or one of his successors, Philip III or Philip IV). ff. 1r-11v: Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler, in Spanish...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1580-1640
- Extent:
- 1 volume
5. Harley MS 3398
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3398
- Title:
- Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum, and Apophthegmata Laconica
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 2r-45r: Plutarch, Apophthegmata ad Traianum; translated from Greek into Latin by Francesco Filelfo in 1437, with his prefatory letter to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (ff. 2r-3v). ff. 46r-84v: Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica; translated from Greek into Latin by Frances...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
6. Harley MS 3426
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3426
- Title:
- Humanistic miscellany, including select lives from Plutarch's Parallel lives
- Scope & Content:
- A humanist anthology of classical and patristic Greek authors translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni. Contents: ff. 1r-134v: Select lives from Plutarch, Parallel lives, translated by Leonardo Bruni. ff. 1r-37r: Life of Antonius, with preface. ff. 37r-56v: Life of Pyrrhus. ff. 56v-73r: Lif...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
7. Harley MS 3485
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3485
- Title:
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives
- Scope & Content:
- This 15th-century manuscript contains a copy of the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, written by the Greek philosopher and writer Plutarch (b. 46, d. after 119). The biographies are arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1478
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Harley MS 3949
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3949
- Title:
- Collection of Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts
- Scope & Content:
- A composite manuscript, the first part of which (ff. 1-71) contains a humanistic miscellany comprising Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts, the second (ff. 72-103) preserves humanist Latin translations of Greek works relating to Classical education. Contents: ff. 1r-69v: written by Mar...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Italian and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1430-1455
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Harley MS 4150
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 4150
- Title:
- Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes; Plutarch, De liberis educandis; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus; Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona; Guarino da Verona, Letter to Nicolaus Leonardus; Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Jerome, De officiis liberorum erga parentes. ff. 6r-39v: Plutarch, De liberis educandis; translated into Latin by Guarino da Verona, with a preface. ff. 40r-93v; Pier Paolo Vergerio, De ingenuis moribus. ff. 94r-95v: Poggio Bracciolini, Letter to Guarino da Verona. f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Harley MS 5578, ff 2-33
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 5578, ff 2-33
- Title:
- (1).Plutarch, Politica Praecepta. Plutarchi Moralia, ed. W. R. Paton et al., Leipzig 1925-, V.i, p.58, No.52 (Planudean corpus No.58). inc. Εἰ πρὸς ἄλλο τι χρήσασθαι.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 item