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1061. Harley MS 2407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2407
Title:
Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

1062. Harley MS 2430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2430
Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

1063. Harley MS 2608

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2608
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the epic poem Thebais (Thebaid) by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (b. 45, d. 96). Contents: ff. 2r-110r: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais, with marginal and interlinear glosses, preceded by a verse of the 5th-century poet Coelius Sedulius (fl. 5th century): ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

1064. Harley MS 2624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1065. Harley MS 2637

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2637
Title:
Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1066. 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

1067. Harley MS 2659

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2659
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius) by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also contains several works attributed to Seneca, including the Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1068. Harley MS 2666

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2666
Title:
Sextus Iulius Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Iulius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. It represents the oldest extant copy of Frontinus’ work (see Bachrach, ‘A Lying Legacy’ (2007), p. 160). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1069. Harley MS 2674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2674
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1070. 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

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