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3681. 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

3682. Harley MS 2628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2628
Title:
Cicero, De officiis, and other minor works
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of Cicero's selected works from mid-15th-century Italy. Contents: ff. 1r-87r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis (books 1-3), copied by Blasius Axeretinus in 1433. ff. 87r-89r: List of contents and colophon of De officiis. ff. 90r-106v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De senectute. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3683. Harley MS 2763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2763
Title:
Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3684. Harley MS 3238

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3238
Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum; tract on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Venice
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced separately. The first part contains a 15th-century Latin copy of the Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium super ludo scacchorum [Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess], an allegorical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3685. Harley MS 3151

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3151
Title:
Regimen Animarum; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mathematica); a scientific text about astronomy; Ibn al-Daya (Haly), Commentary to Ptolemy's Centiloquium; Tractatus de planetis; a tract about music; a tract about illuminating manuscripts titled De Alluminatura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Regimen Animarum, imperfect at the end. According to the titulus, this part of the manuscript was written in 1343: 'Incipit liber qui vocatur animarum regimen compilatus in anno domini 1343. Incipit prologus'. ff. 24r-32v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1343 - 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3686. Harley MS 3433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3433
Title:
Verse treatises on natural philosophy entitled De principiis rerum naturalium and De rerum proprietatibus; Raffaello Maffei, Summary of Plato's Leges and Epinomis; Raffaello Maffei, Commentariorum urbanorum octo et triginta libri (extracts)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-43v: The first part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 44r-88v: The second part of a work on natural philosophy, written in verse, entitled 'Secunda pars huius tertie pars De principiis rerum naturalium'. ff. 89r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

3687. Harley MS 4772

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4772
Title:
The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
Scope & Content:
This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3688. Harley MS 4773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4773
Title:
The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:
This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3689. Harley MS 5561

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5561
Title:
Euchologion, with readings from the Epistles and Gospels. Greg.-Aland l 340; Scrivener, l. 4 evst. 258
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
13th century-4th quarter or the 15th century
Extent:
16 items

3690. Harley MS 1321

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1321
Title:
Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chansons de Geste from the cycles of William of Orange (Guillaume d'Orange): and Aimeri de Narbonne (Aymeri de Nerbonne) ff. 4r-38v: Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Girart de Vienne (Girard de Viane), 5,560 lines, lacking 1 leaf at the beginning that perhaps contained a miniature; ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1225-1275
Extent:

1 volume

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