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Harley 5664
Solon, Homer, Pythagoras, Aristophanes, Miscellany, including 'Dicta Catonis' translated by Maximos Planoudes (ff. 1-8v, 11-24), Solon's verses (ff. 9-11), 'Batrachomyomachia' (ff. 25-38v), Pythagoras's 'Carmina aurea' (ff. 67-70), and Aristophanes's 'Plutus' (ff. 71-128v), 'Nubes' (ff. 129-184) and 'Ranae' (ff. 185-238)
Italy, N. E.; Last quarter of the 15th or 1st quarter of the 16th century
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Decorated headpiece and initial

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Decorated headpiece and initial

Harley 6301
Philip King of Macedon, Artaxerxes, Hystanes, Hippocrates, Libanius, Pseudo-Homer, Agapetus the deacon, Isocrates, Theognis of Megara, Miscellany, including letters of Philip of Macedon, Artaxerxes, Hystanes, Hippocrates and Libanius (ff. 3-5, 6-7), Pseudo-Homer's 'Batrachomyomachia' (ff. 8-24v), 'Dicta Catonis' translated by Maximos Planudes (ff. 25-43v), Agapetus's 'Expositio capitum admonitoriorum' (ff. 44-65v), Isocrates's 'Ad demonicum', 'Ad Nicoclem' and 'Nicocles' (ff. 76-92v, 93v-115, 116-125), and Theognis's 'Gnomai' (ff. 126v-195)
Eastern Mediterranean or Italy, Central; 1st quarter of the 16th century
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Decorated initial

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Decorated initial

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