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Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 262

1. Harley MS 262

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 262
Title:
Kitab-i Remel - كتاب رمل
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the book of remel, or divination by means of dots. The preamble of the text tates that it was composed for Hārūn al-Rashīd by a sage known as ᶜAbdallah ibn Ani. The instructions given for consulting it are as follows: make at random an indefinite number of dots on sand or p...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 82 ff

2. Harley MS 2620

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2620
Title:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes two abridged version of Livy's Ab urbe condita: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (ff. 1r-43r); and the so-called Periochae, a list of contents of T. Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8 (ff. 43r-46r). Decoration: Initials originally in red and capital letters highl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 2620, ff 1r-43r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2620, ff 1r-43r
Title:
L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio
Scope & Content:
The Epitoma de Tito Livio in 4 books by the 2nd-century author L. Annaeus Florus, incipit: 'Populus Romanus a rege Romulo', with a partially effaced rubric: 'L. Annei Flori de tito livio epitome liber primus'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 2620, ff 43r-46r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2620, ff 43r-46r
Title:
T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
Scope & Content:
Periochae, a list of contents of T. Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8; incipit: 'Adventus Aenee in Italiam et res geste'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 2621

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2621
Title:
Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 8v: the mass sequence 'Ave gloriosa virginum regina vitis generosa', with neumes. ff. 9r-48v: Horace, Epistulae, glossed throughout, imperfect at the end. Decoration: 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue, occasionally with palmette motifs (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2622

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2622
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum
Scope & Content:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum; title: 'M. Tulli Cicer. Incip. Paradoxa stoicorum. feliciter'; incipit: 'Animadverti brute sepe catonem'; imperfect at the end, explicit: 'et ego beatus sum cognante. Nec'. 13th-century glosses in the margins. Decoration: Initial in red at the beginni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2623

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2623
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione, Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2-57v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione. ff. 58-110: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. Decoration: Large initials with yellow, brown and red decoration (ff. 2r, 58r). Smaller initials in red and yellow.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. 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

9. Harley MS 2625

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2625
Title:
Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-160v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2626

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2626
Title:
Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-112r: Cicero, Disputationes Tusculanae (Tusculan Disputations). Decoration: A large white vine initial in gold and colours at the beginning of each book (ff. 1r, 3r, 28v, 43v, 63v, 85r). Space for a smaller initial left blank (f. 65v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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