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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2946
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, including: 1. Temporale, incipit (rubric): 'Dominica prima adventus domini', including an office for the dedication of the church (f. 176v); ends imperfectly in 'lectio I' of the dedication of the church, explicit: 'Etiam fratres videte quam pulcrum est templum quod edif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1405
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2966
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar of Saints. ff. 9r-9v: Prayer to St Christopher, ‘De sancto Christoforo anthiphona [prayer:] O sancte Christofore martir ihesu Christi’. ff. 10r-10v: Prayer to St Katherine of Alexandria, ‘De sancta Katherina antiphona [prayer:] Gaude virgo Katherina’. ff. 11r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3038
Title:: Odo, Ysagoge in theologiam; Leviticus glossed; Gospel of John glossed
Scope & Content:: This manuscript, containing the texts of Leviticus and the Gospel of John with extensive gloss commentaries, can be precisely dated and localised to the Cistercian monastery of Buildwas, Shropshire, due to the ownership inscription with a date clause that was written by the main scribe (f. 7v). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1176
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3130
Title:: Collection of sermons; Distincciones Johannes Lathbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-146v: A collection of sermons, containing some in Middle English ('lovesums lykyng' on f. 2v), and distinctions. Includes the Distincciones Johannes Lathbury or Alphabetum morale (ff. 17r-76v), containing references to Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon. The manuscript contains a f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3151
Title:: Regimen Animarum; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mathematica); a scientific text about astronomy; Ibn al-Daya (Haly), Commentary to Ptolemy's Centiloquium; Tractatus de planetis; a tract about music; a tract about illuminating manuscripts titled De Alluminatura
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-23v: Regimen Animarum, imperfect at the end. According to the titulus, this part of the manuscript was written in 1343: 'Incipit liber qui vocatur animarum regimen compilatus in anno domini 1343. Incipit prologus'. ff. 24r-32v: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (Book III, De Mat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1343 - 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3221
Title:: Servasanto da Faenza, Sermones Dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-242v: Servasanto da Faenza, Sermones Dominicales [Sermones de Dominicis et Festivitatibus]. The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 2r-2v: Table of sermons; added in the late 13th or early 14th century. ff. 3r-3v, 127v-129v, 243r-246v: Theological notes, including a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3300
Title:: Formulary from the diocese of Exeter
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Two Latin indentures from Devon, one relating to the vicar of Cornwood, and the other to Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. f. 2r: A Middle English poem on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, 'Love come outte fro heven'; ending with the attribution: 'Quod Breche' [...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3362
Title:: Collection of macaronic poems, songs, proverbs and riddles; grammatical rules; the last words of Thomas Cromwell; trilingual courtly love lyrics
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-79v: A collection of Latin poems, songs, proverbs and riddles on various religious and secular subjects, sometimes featuring Middle English verse (ff. 2v-5r, 21r, 33r, 36r, 89r-91r). Entitled ‘Collectio Carminum de rebus varijs et rythmicorum’ and associated with a canon of Bri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3363
Title:: Meditationes ad quendam monacum anachoritam; Speculum sacerdotum; Speculum peccatoris; Speculum conversacionis honestae; Doctrina laicorum; Decem signa divini amoris et de malis sacerdotis; legal formularies
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains theological and legal works in Latin and English that were copied in the 15th and early 16th centuries. The manuscript can be divided into eight parts (Part 1 is ff. 2r-18r; Part 2 is ff. 19r-47v; Part 3 is ff. 48r-58v; Part 4 is ff. 59r-66v; Part 5 is ff. 67r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3371
Title:: Collection of medical texts and recipes, including works by John of Arderne
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of medical texts and recipes, including many works by the English practitioner John of Arderne (b. 1307, d. c. 1378). This collection has been identified as the exemplar used by the author of the Middle English translation of Arderne's works and other text...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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