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41. Harley MS 3859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3859
Title:
Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Welsh
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

42. Harley MS 4927

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4927
Title:
Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

43. Harley MS 5237

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5237
Title:
Boethius, De institutione musica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione musica (On the Principles of Music), imperfect (Book 1, 23-Book 5, 8) beginning at the chapter 23 of the first book: 'Hoc igitur modo per singular tetrachorda in generum proprietates partitio facta est', ending at the chapter 8...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

44. Royal MS 15 B XII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 B XII
Title:
Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r-59v), written in the 1st half of the 10th century in Central France. This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury in the last quarter of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

45. Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 37-199
Title:
Bede, De temporum ratione; A collection of Latin verse and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit ceroma?
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 37r-v: An anonymous preface on Bede's De temporum ratione. ff. 38r-39r: Preface of De temporum ratione. ff. 39r-40v: Table of chapters for the De temporum ratione. ff. 40v-78v: Bede, De temporum ratione (imperfect, ends at chapter 29). ff. 79r-102v: A collection of Latin vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

46. Yates Thompson MS 38

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 38
Title:
Livy, De Secundo Bello Punico
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Secundo Bello Punico (On the Second Punic War) by the Roman historian Titus Livius (b. 59 BC, d. 17), commonly known as Livy. The manuscript's scribe has been identified as the 'Scribe of the Ottoboni Livy' (see Reeve, 'The Third Decade of Livy in Italy' (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

47. Yates Thompson MS 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 39
Title:
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; Ausonius, Caesars
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. i: Bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. f. iii: Short catalogue of the volume’s contents. ff. 1r-213v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars). ff. 214r-217v: Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 122), Caesares (Caesars), verses on emperors from Caesar to Heliogabalus. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:

1 volume

48. Yates Thompson MS 50

Reference (shelfmark):
Yates Thompson MS 50
Title:
Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:
Aristophanes, Plutus (TLG 0019.029), ff 2r-76v, with interlinear glosses partly in Latin, followed by Nubes (TLG 0019.021), ff 77r-171r, and preceded by Vita Thomana 1 (TLG 4158.009), ff 1r-v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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