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1. Harley MS 2685

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2685
Title:
Boethius, Consolatio philosophiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Mythologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae; Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), Consolatio philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), Book 1-5, including contemporary and 10th-century interlinear and marginal glosses. ff. 24r-35v: Fulgentius Mythographus (fl. 500), Mythologiae (Mythologies), preceded by capitula (f. 24r)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 2652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2652
Title:
Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Harley MS 2713

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

4. Harley MS 3095

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

5. 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

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