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4111. Harley MS 3949

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3949
Title:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1430-1455
Extent:
1 volume

4112. 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

4113. Harley MS 2716

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2716
Title:
Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem; Cicero, Pro Marcello; De Officiis; Pro Ligario
Scope & Content:
This codex is composite and made up of two separate manuscripts, both made in Western Germany during the last quarter of the 10th century. The first manuscript comprises ff. 1-33 and 75-77. The second comprises ff. 34-74. Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam (Catiline Oration...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
1 volume

4114. Harley MS 4978

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4978
Title:
St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

4115. Harley MS 4373

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4373
Title:
Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, books 6 to 9
Scope & Content:
Contents: Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse, Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, a translation of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, books 6-9. Simon de Hesdin, Knight Hospitaller of Jerusalem and Master of Theology (d. 1383), according to the rubric on f. 11v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c. 1460-1487
Extent:
A parchment codex, 153 folios

4116. Harley MS 2385

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2385
Title:
Middle English treatises and Latin sermons; Richard of Saint-Victor, Epistola ad Severinum de Caritate; Vita Secundi philosophi; a collection of miracles and exempla
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises five different parts that were produced separately in England. Part 1 (ff. 2r-8v) was written in the first half of the 15th century. Part 2 (ff. 11r-25v) was written around the mid or in the second half of the 15th century. Parts 3 (ff. 26r-31v) and 4 (ff. 32r-36v)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

4117. Harley MS 4324

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4324
Title:
Guy du Faur, Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, written by Esther Inglis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Les Quatrains and Les Cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, two poetic works by Guy de Faur (b. 1529, d. 1584), Seigneur de Pibrac, written by the English calligrapher and artist Esther Inglis (b. 1570/71, d. 1624) in 1614. The manuscript features...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1614
Extent:
1 volume

4118. Harley MS 865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 865
Title:
Ambrose, De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis;Jerome, Contra Jovinianum; and other theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-4v: Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397), De Mysteriis (On Mysteries), beginning imperfectly due to the lack of the opening folio. ff. 4v-16v: Ambrose, De Sacramentis (On the Sacraments). ff. 16v-18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4119. Harley MS 2639

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2639
Title:
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De grammaticis et rhetoribus; Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of two rhetorical works by Roman historians: De grammaticis et rhetoribus (On Grammarians and Rhetoricians) by Caius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122) and Dialogus de oratoribus (Dialogue on oratory) by Publius Cornelius Tacitus (b. c. 56, d. c. 120)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1450-c. 1460 (before 1462)
Extent:
A parchment codex

4120. Harley MS 2691

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2691
Title:
Cicero, De amicitia; Guarino da Verona, Ad filium Hieronymum, Hypothesia; Pseudo-Plutarch, De liberis educandis, in a Latin translation by Guarino da Verona
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a number of works by the Italian humanist teacher, scholar, and translator Guarino da Verona (b. 1370, d. 1460), including his Latin translation of Pseudo-Plutarch's De liberis educandis, which he dedicated to his student Angelo Corbinelli (d. 1419). Contents: ff. 1r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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