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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Italy

31. Harley MS 2547

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2547
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-159r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae. f. 159v: A list of books in this manuscript, entitled: 'Questione in tuscanis'. Decoration: 5 large initials in gold on a blue and pink or green and pink panel (ff. 1r, 3v, 42r, 64r, 121v). 1 initial has been excised ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 2551

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2551
Title:
Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80v: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris; with marginal annotations. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 80r: A reused leaf from a 15th-century Italian missal (formerly a pastedown), featuring a (?) 16th-century inscription: 'Estimatur liber iste quattuor ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 2552

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2552
Title:
Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello Civili
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-201r: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (b. AD 39, d. AD 65), also known as Lucan, Pharsalia or De Bello Civili (On the Civil War), some sections with interlinear and marginal glosses.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1444
Extent:

1 volume

34. Harley MS 2553

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2553
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-248r: Virgil, Aeneid. The manuscript contains later additions: Copiously annotated throughout in 15th-century hands, including an ink drawing with ships (f. 80v). ff. 249r-249v: Latin verses, beginning: 'Bartholomie omnes forma'; written in 15th-century hands. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1442-1443
Extent:
1 volume

35. Harley MS 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2563
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Terence's epitaph. ff. 1r-170v: Terence, Comoediae; with marginal annotations throughout. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 2*, 167v, 168v-170r: Numerous annotations in various hands, some in Italian, mainly late 15th-century-early 16th century. Decoration: C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Harley MS 2581

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2581
Title:
Horace, Ars poetica; Satires; Epistulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus], Ars poetica. ff. 10r-52v: Horace, Satires. ff. 53r-83v: Horace, Epistulae. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1*recto: An Italian inscription: 'Se questo libro asorta si p[re]dessi a ?dapitassi allemane di p[er]sona che no[n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley MS 2583

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2583
Title:
Gaius Julius Solinus, De situ orbis et mirabilibus mundi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-158v: Gaius Julius Solinus, De situ orbis et mirabilibus mundi.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

38. Harley MS 2586

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2586
Title:
Geoffrey de Vinsauf, Poetria nova; Francesco Piccinini, Poetry collection dedicated to Antonius Astensis; Guarino da Verona, Epistolae; Agostino Dati, Elegantiolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Poetria nova of Geoffrey de Vinsauf (fl. 1200) and a poetry collection by Francesco Piccinini (fl. 15th century), who identifies himself as a ducal scribe and dedicates the work to Antonius Astensis. The volume also includes a number of letters by the Italian humanis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

39. Harley MS 2607

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2607
Title:
Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), a collection of poetry written by the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (b. 43 BC, d. 17/18 AD), also known as Ovid. The work was composed during Ovid's exile from Rome at the port city of Tomis, on the Black Sea. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1472
Extent:
1 volume

40. Harley MS 2617

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2617
Title:
Ovid, Heroides
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78r: Ovid, Heroides (The Heroines), with interlinear glosses. ff. 78v-79r: an unidentified text in Latin, possibly a paraphrase or extract from Rolandinus Passagerii's Aurora, beginning, 'Quonia aromatu solet se natura ut longe contrita redoleant', added in the 15th century....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume