Manuscripts, Latin
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Latin.
Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:
MS 188: Historia destructionis Troiae, by Guido delle Colonne, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 188
Contents
Historia destructionis Troiae is an account of Troy and its destruction in the Trojan War, written in Latin verse. It was originally composed in the 13th century by Sicilian author, Guido delle Colonne. Guido claimed to have written the piece in just 71 days.The poem begins on f. 1r with the Prologue. The first line reads: Ut si cotidie vetera recentibus obruant...The Prologue ends on f. 1v, with ...
Dates:
15th century
MS 189: Compilatio librorum historialium ab Adam usque ad Christum by Johannes de Utino, 1358
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Identifier: MS 189
Contents
Johannes de Utino, a Franciscan friar from Mortegliano (near Udine) in the first half of the fourteenth century, composed a diagrammatic chronicle of universal history from Adam to Christ, a compilation of Biblical and post-biblical history. MS 189 Johannes's work chronicle in roll form, over 5 metres in length, and arranged around a central genealogical diagrammatical 'tree' running down the centre of the length of the roll. The first half of the roll covers Biblical history, while the...
Dates:
1358
MS 190: Composite manuscripts including two texts by Sallust, 1462
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Identifier: MS 190
Contents
The two texts by Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) contained in MS 190 are De Coniuratione Catilinae and Bellum Jugurthinum. These are the only two texts that survive complete from Sallust, and both are described separately, under MS 190/ff. 1r-42v, and MS 190/ff. 43r-127v. Writing Italian script with plain red capitals. The rubrics and first words of sections are Roman...
Dates:
1462
MS 191: Works by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 191
Contents
MS 191 contains two texts by the fifteenth-century Italian, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II from 1458-1464). The volume is divided into two parts, the first containing letters by Piccolimini, and the second, the text De miseria curialium. These will be described separately, under 'MS 191/ff. 1-97' and 'MS 191/ff. 99-115'. Writing A fine, uniform minuscule, written on fine vellum, with wide margins....
Dates:
late 15th century
MS 193: Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum by Justin, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 193
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MS 193 is a text of the only known work by Roman historian Justin (Marcus Junianus Justinus Frontinus). Little else is known about this author, but he most likely lived in the second or third century AD. Justin's history is an epitome, or abridgement of the earlier history of the kings of Macedonia, Liber Historiarum Philippicarum by first-century Roman historian, Trogus, now lost. Justin summarises passages of Trogus' text,...
Dates:
late 15th century
MS 194: Composite manuscript containing the Historia destructionis Troiae and a fragment of letter, 14th or 15th century
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Identifier: MS 194
Contents
Writing
MS 194 contains two texts, in the same hand.
ff. 1r-136r: 'Historia destructionis Troiae' by Guido delle Colonne
f. 136r-v: 'Epistola ad Raymundus de curia rei familiaris' by Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux
These texts will be described separately, under MS 194/ff. 1-136; and MS 194/ff. 136r-v.
Writing
A fair hand, with good filigree initials in red, blue, and purple.
Dates:
14th or 15th century
MS 195: Composite manuscript containing four texts (Virgil), c 1449
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Identifier: MS 195
Contents
Contains four texts, in the same hand.Ff. 1r-18r: The Bucolics by VirgilFf. 19r-63v: The Georgics by VirgilFf. 65r-267r: The Aeneid by VirgilFf. 267v-280r: Aeneidos Liber XIII (or Supplementum), the...
Dates:
c 1449
MS 196: Composite manuscript containing four comedies by Terence, late 14th century (with 15th century gloss)
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Identifier: MS 196
Contents
MS 196 contains four comedies (all incomplete) by the Roman playwright, Terence. His comedies were first performed in the mid-second century BC. They were very popular in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and survive in hundreds of medieval manuscripts. The four plays contained in MS 196 (Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos and Adelphi) are described separately under these titles. ...
Dates:
late 14th century (with 15th century gloss)
MS 197: Composite manuscript containing six comedies by Terence, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 197
Contents
MS 197 contains all six of the comedies by Roman playwright Terence.Andrea: ff. 1r-21v. Starts with the line [N]atus in excelsis tectis cartaginis alteEunuchus: ff. 22r-45v. Starts with the line [T]errentii affri incipit eunucus acta ludis megallensibusHeauton Timorumenos: ff. 45v-68r. The play starts with the line ...
Dates:
late 15th century
MS 198: Composite manuscript containing four texts by Horace and Persius, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 198
Contents
Contains four texts in the same hand.ff. 1r-16v: Satires by Persiusff. 17r-28v: Ars Poetica by Horaceff. 29r-85r:Satires Book I and II by Horaceff. 85v-124r: Epistles Book I and II by HoraceThe texts will be described separately under the folios and titles listed above. ...
Dates:
late 15th century