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41. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

42. Harley MS 2703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2703
Title:
Ovid, Fasti, and Remedia amoris
Scope & Content:
A manuscript consisting of two parts that had been bound together by 1533 (see ‘Custodial history’). Both parts contain elegiac verse by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), and were probably written in Germany. The first part (ff. 1r-56v) dates to the 2nd half of the 12th century; the second part (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

43. Harley MS 2750

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2750
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

44. Harley MS 3157

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3157
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew; Commentary on Mark (Prologue); Brief Commentary on the Psalms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-70v: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Commentary on Matthew. ff. 70v-72r: St Jerome, Prologue on the Commentary on Mark. ff. 73r-238v: St Jerome, Brief Commentary on the Psalms (Commentarioli in Psalmos). Decoration: Large initials in red ink throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1487
Extent:

1 volume

45. Harley MS 2664

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2664
Title:
Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-188r: Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (b. c. 35, d. c. 100), Institutio Oratoria (Institutes of Oratory), with running header on the top right of each verso specifying which book of the Institutio is covered, added in the 15th century. ff. 90r-91v: Replacement text for lost folios,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 2770

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2770
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'. ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

47. Harley MS 3042

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3042
Title:
Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum, Sermo de resurrectione domini, De poenitentia, Hexaemeron, and De paradiso
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were written separately. Part 1 (ff. 1v-67v, 120r-141v) was written in Germany in the 2nd half of the 11th century. Part 2 (ff. 68r-119r) was written in western Germany in the 2nd half of the 12th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1v-66v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

48. Harley MS 3144

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3144
Title:
Collection of letters from Protestant reformers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-54v: Collection of letters from Protestant reformers, entitled: 'Responsa Clarissimorum Germaniæ Theologorum ad propositam a G. Langæo Legato Regio de dissidijs in Religione Christiana componendis consultationem Ann. 1534 et 1535'; including the following items: ff. 1r-2v: Phi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1535
Extent:
1 volume

49. Harley MS 3246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3246
Title:
Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, Explanatio super Canticum canticorum;Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Augustini
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 2r-41r) contains the commentary on the Song of Songs by Thomas Gallus of Vercelli [of Saint-Victor] (b. c. 1200, d. 1246). The second part (ff. 42r-61v) contains the commentary on the Rule of St Augustine spuriously at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

50. Harley MS 1725

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1725
Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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