The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
ff. 1*r-v: Fragment of a service book, 10th century, Italy. ff. 1r-126r: Virgil, Aeneid, glossed in multiple hands. ff. 126r-137r: Virgil, Bucolics, glossed in multiple hands. ff. 137v-164v: Virgil, Georgics, glossed in multiple hands. f. 126: A list of ancient Italian kings ending with Juli...
Contents: ff. 1r-117v: The Prose Brut; Common Version to 1333. Decoration: A large gilded initial with foliate decoration in the margin reaching down to the bas de page (f. 1r). Large (3-line) initials in red up to f. 41r; after that, empty spaces for initials have occasionally been filled w...
The manuscript is composed of two contemporary parts (ff. 1-42 and 43-74) and includes: ff. 1r-42v: Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali; ff. 43r-59r: Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; ff. 59v-74v: Augustine, De trinitate (imperfect). f. 1* is a leaf from a late 12th century litu...
Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali, preceded by a list of chapters, rubric: 'Incipiunt capitula libri pastoralis beati gregorii pape', incipit (list of chapters): 'Ne imperiti venire'; rubric (text): 'Incipit liber pastoral. cure beati gregorii pape urbis rome ad iohanem ranem nate', incipit: ...
Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis, preceded by a list of contents, incipit: '[D]e miseria hominis [d]e utilitate materie', incipit (text): '[D]omino patri p. portuensi episcopo lotarius'. Decoration: Space left for initials and rubrics.
Augustine, De trinitate (imperfect), incipit (preface): 'Libros de trinitate que deus est quindecim scripsi', incipit (prologue): '[D]omino beatissimo et sincerissima caritate venerando sancto fratri et consacerdoti Aurelio', incipit (text): '[L]ecturus hec que de trinitate'; the text ends in bo...
Collection of Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript, the first part of which (ff. 1-71) contains a humanistic miscellany comprising Classical grammatical and rhetorical texts, the second (ff. 72-103) preserves humanist Latin translations of Greek works relating to Classical education. Contents: ff. 1r-69v: written by Mar...