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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r
Title:: Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt).
Scope & Content:: Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacae urbis (excerpt). The Latin text and its Old English translation are integrated in the same column (ff. 115v-118r) or the translation is included as an interlinear gloss (ff. 118v-120r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 124r-125r
Title:: Be þam halgan gaste on englisc.
Scope & Content:: A text entitled 'Be þam halgan gaste on englisc', incipit: 'Isaias se witega awrát on his witegunge...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 125v-128v
Title:: Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento.
Scope & Content:: Aelfric, Letter to Sigeward, De Veteri Testamento, excerpts: incipit 'Ic wolde secgan be þam ungesaeligum folce...' (ll. 1227-61), and 'Hieronimus se wurðfulla...' (ll. 1017-1153). Decoration: Initials in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Early 11th century
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3271, ff 128v-129r
Title:: De initio creaturae.
Scope & Content:: Title: 'De initio creature', incipit: 'Her maeg findan se ðe sécan wile. hu micel þaes gerageteles is..' The last section of the text gives the date 1032: ‘ðonne is nu fram frymþe ealle aúrnen. Syx þusend wintra. 7 an hund wintra. 7 etwa 7 þrytyg wintra. To ðaem eastrun. þe bið .IIII. non. Apr....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1032
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3376
Title:: Latin-Old English Glossary
Scope & Content:: Contents: Part of an alphabetical glossary of rare Latin words from a- to fu-, with some words beginning with z inserted in the entry for the letter d . Most words are glossed in Latin, with about one third having Old English glosses as explanations of the Latin glosses and a few words having ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 975-1050
Extent:: A parchment codex consisting of 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3667
Title:: Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3826
Title:: Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains texts on vocabulary and scribal practices and glossaries. It includes: ff. 1r-24r: Alcuin, De orthographia (incomplete); ff. 24v-71r: Bede, De orthographia; ff. 71v-84r: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book III; ff. 84r-86v: text beginning ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: late 10th-early 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4660
Title:: Miscellaneous collection of transcriptions of Old English charters and the Narratio de Sanctis qui in Anglia quiescunt; fragments of a Latin work on the Old English language
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A catalogue of fifteen charters held at Worcester Cathedral, entitled: ‘Cartarum aliquod pervetustarum quae extant in Archivis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Wirogn; Apographa’; ending with the note: ‘Harum Cartarum nulla exhibetur in Monastico Anglicana’. f. 1v: A transcription of a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Danish, Dutch, English, English, Old, and Germanic languages
Date Range:: c 1643-c 1700
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5040
Title:: English alchemical work based on Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-50v: An acephalous alchemical work, imperfect at the beginning due to the loss of folios, following the structures of the twelve grados and the concluding Recapitulatio in Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum; attributed in a poem at the end to an author from Cirencester: 'H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5915
Title:: A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:: The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was originally part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historical ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 8th century - 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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