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Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 261

1. Harley MS 261

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 261
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:
This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 2610

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2610
Title:
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses; Glossarium Salomonis (fragment); Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three parts. The first part (ff. 1r-37r) was written in Germany in the 10th century; the second part (ff. 38r-40v) in the 14th century; and the third part (ff. 41r-50v) in Germany in the 11th century. The three parts were joined together in the Harleian libr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2611

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2611
Title:
Juvenal, Satires; Persius, Satires
Scope & Content:
A humanist copy of the Satires of Juvenal and Persius. Contents: ff. 2r-71r: Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satires. ff. 71v: blank ff. 72r-84r: Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satires. ff. 84r-85r: blanks ff. 85v-86v: ownership inscriptions. Decoration: 1 large initial in red with white vine interlac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2612

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2612
Title:
Titus Lucretius Caro (Lucretius), De Rerum Natura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-109r: Titus Lucretius Caro (Lucretius), De Rerum Natura, imperfect at the end, ending: 'diffugiant, quia ni mirum facile omnia circum (Book VI).'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2614

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2614
Title:
Petrarch, Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
Contents: The text written by written by the scribe Angelus Frassinensis: colophon, 'Terentium hunc ego dominus Angelus Frassinensis manu propria notavi' (with the words, 'i. scripsi' written above) (f. 169r). Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather, tooled in gold; marbled endpapers ff. 1r-3v: P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2616

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2616
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Beneficiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an Italian translation of De Beneficiis (On Benefits), a 1st-century work by the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. c. 4 BC, d. 65), also known as Seneca the Younger. Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Beneficiis. [f. 94v is blank]. Decorati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c. 1430-c. 1440
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2617

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2617
Title:
Ovid, Heroides
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-78r: Ovid, Heroides (The Heroines), with interlinear glosses. ff. 78v-79r: an unidentified text in Latin, possibly a paraphrase or extract from Rolandinus Passagerii's Aurora, beginning, 'Quonia aromatu solet se natura ut longe contrita redoleant', added in the 15th century....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2618

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2618
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-89v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione; ff. 90r-168v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; ff. 169r-185r: Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma ad Lucium Veturium. f. 185v is blank. Decoration: 2 white vine initials in gold and colours with decoration extending into the margin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume