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3001. Harley MS 2702

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2702
Title:
Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De re rustica, a work on agriculture by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro (b. 116 BC, d. 27 BC). Contents: ff. 2r-245r: Marcus Terentius Varro, De re rustica (On agriculture). [ff. 1v and 245v are blank]. Decoration: 1 miniature in colours and gold, depi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3002. Harley MS 3010

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3010
Title:
Gregory the Great, Sermons on Ezekiel
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36r: Gregory the Great, Sermons on Ezekiel, in two books, imperfect at the end (most of the second book is wanting). Decoration: Large initials in colours (the red oxidised) with simple geometric or zoomorphic motifs. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3003. Harley MS 3026

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3026
Title:
Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt, Super Apocalypsim expositio
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Super Apocalypsim expositio (Exposition on the Apocalypse) spuriously attributed to Haimo of Halberstadt (d. 853). Most of the text was written in the 10th century (ff. 3r-147v); the beginning and the end of the text were added later, in the early 12th century (ff. 1v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3004. Harley MS 3681

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3681
Title:
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: The beginning of the prologue to the Historia Troiana, unfinished and rejected. ff. 2r-141v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, (imperfect). The prologue begins, 'Et si...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3005. Harley MS 4334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4334
Title:
Girard de Roussillon, Chanson de geste
Scope & Content:
Contents: Girard or Girart de Roussillon, a chanson de geste, imperfect at the beginning and the end, with a lacuna of at least 3 quires after f. 37 and leaves missing after ff. 24, 30 and 43. There are 3,480 lines remaining out of a total of 10,000. Girard de Roussillon was governor of the D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

3006. Harley MS 5303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5303
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Epistulae; Sermones; Ars Poetica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), also known as Horace. Contents: ff. 1r-56v: Horace, Carmina; ff. 57r-84r: Horace, Epistulae; ff. 84r-121v: Horace, Sermones; ff. 122r-130r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 130v is blank....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3007. Harley MS 5668

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5668
Title:
Olympiodorus, Commentary on Plato's Gorgias.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 item

3008. Harley MS 5363

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5363
Title:
A Prosopoeia, fiction, or devise, bringing in the Piramis or pillar of the Pallace of Parris, speaking for itself, and advertisinge others
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a previously unnoticed work by Thomas Wilcox (b. c. 1549, d. 1608), Church of England clergyman, dedicated to Henry Frederick (b. 1594, d. 1612), Prince of Wales. Wilcox also revised Sir Philip Sidney's English translation of Philippe de Mornay's Traité de la vérité de l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1605
Extent:
1 volume

3009. Harley MS 5401

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5401
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical and Culinary Compendium; 2nd half of the 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Partly copies. The MS. mainly contains medical and culinary treatises and recipes, which include: - a) John Arderne, Liber medicinarum (ff. 1-77v; item 1); - b) Treatise on uroscopy (ff. 94-94v; item 9); - c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3010. Harley MS 2518

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2518
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-31r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, with a gloss at the start of the text. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 29r-31r: Erased text; perhaps a palimpsest. f. 31v: Added inscriptions in various hands including one on a scroll reading 'amore me port...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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