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11. Arundel MS 348, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 348, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione (On Invention). ff. 51v-101v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (The Rhetoric to Herennius). Decoration: Six large decorated initials in brown ink with yellow and red washes, two with zoomorphic features of an animal head, or a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A part of Arundel MS 348

12. Arundel MS 348, ff 180r-276v

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 348, ff 180r-276v
Title:
Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 180r-276v: Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De interpretatione (Perihermeneias) (On Interpretation). Decoration: Red and brown or red simple initials. Diagrams with red and some with line-fillers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Arundel MS 348

13. Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 1–82

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Cleopatra D I, ff 1–82
Title:
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De architectura; Extracts from Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex Sententiis Sancti Augustini; Vitalis's epitaph
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: A page-title written by a modern hand: 'Vitruvius/ Vegetius, de re militari'. f. 2v: Preface of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura followed by a table of chapters numbered in Roman numerals. ff. 3r-82r: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura (About Architecture) (10 b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra D I

14. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129
Title:
Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
This is the only surviving copy of the Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, with alternating sections in prose and verse. Parts of the text that are now damaged were recorded in Junius's notebook (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 12). Both this manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

15. Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 2-34

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus D XVI, ff 2-34
Title:
Prudentius, Psychomachia (illustrated); Poem in praise of St Laurence
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i verso: Modern notes related to Prudentius: 'Prudentius, poeta, vir Christianus'. f. 1r: An early 14th-century table of contents including modern additions, followed by some lines dedicated to Prudentius. ff. 2r-34r: Prudentius, Psychomachia with drawings (see 'Decoration'), be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Titus D XVI

16. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138
Title:
Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 86-138: Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i-ii. Decoration: Initials in red throughout. Display capitals in red (f. 86r). Marginal drawing of heads (ff. 93v, 100v, 106v, 123v). Manicula (ff. 105v, 116v, 122v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

17. Egerton MS 654

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 654
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

18. Egerton MS 2627

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2627
Title:
Claudianus Claudius, Carmina Majora, Carmina Minora, De Raptu Proserpine
Scope & Content:
This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), including De Raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for whom he was a court poet, and the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

19. Egerton MS 3055

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3055
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum; Ausonius, Caesares
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De vita Caesarum (The Twelve Caesars) by the Roman historian Suetonius (b.c. 69 , d. c. 122) and the poem Caesares (Emperors) by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 395). Contents: f. 1v: Epitaphs in couplets dedicated to Julius Caesar, to the Roman emperor Nero, to a ‘certain ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

20. Harley MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 261
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:
This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

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