Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Subject: Classical Literature - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2700
Title:: Martial, Epigrams
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Epigrams by the Roman poet Martial (b. c. 41-d. c. 102). Parts of the original text are missing and have been supplemented by an anonymous 15th-century scribe, possibly working in Padua, and by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (b. 1435, d. 1518). The manu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2736
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s De oratore, copied by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 800, d. 863) around 836, according to Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930). Lupus produced this manuscript perhaps from Eginhard's exemplar (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930)). This volume als...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2767
Title:: Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3023
Title:: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Peristephanon and part of Hamartigenia; anonymous explanation of poetic metres and letter on the death of Sigon, abbot of Saint-Florent de Saumur; letters by and from Berengar of Tours and Fulbert of Chartres
Scope & Content:: This manuscript primarily contains works by the Latin Christian poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day), Peristephanon (Crowns of the Martyrs), and the final part of Hamartigenia (The Origin of Sin), all glossed and annotated in the 12th century....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3072
Title:: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius, sermons; Prudentius, Cathemerinon; Servius, Commentary on Georgics; Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This volume consists of different parts that were bound together at an early period. The first part (ff. 1r-6r) was written in the second half of the 10th century. The second part (ff. 7r-87r) was produced in the third quarter of the 10th century. The third part (ff. 87r-90v) contains sermons co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3095
Title:: Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:: The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3509
Title:: Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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