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31. Harley MS 441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 441
Title:
A transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Various notes by Edmund Gibson. f. 2r: The Nicene Creed in Old English written by Edmund Gibson. ff. 3r-96r: A 'palaeographical' transcript of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 121 (Ecclesiastical Institutes, Homilies associated with Archbishop Wulfstan).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1688
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 526

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526
Title:
Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains five parts: Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27); a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v); the only surviving, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 9th-14th century
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
Title:
Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
Scope & Content:
This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:
27 folios, part of a parchment codex

34. Harley MS 533

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 533
Title:
Symeon of Durham, De exordio ecclesiae Dunelmensis; Charta Ecgfridi Northumbriae Regis; Historia de Ranulfo et alijs aliquot; Historia de sancto Cuthberto et de commemoratione Locorum Regionumque eius prisce possessionis a primordio usque nunc temporis; De situ Dunelmi et de Sanctorum reliquijs que ibidem continentur
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-99v: Symeon of Durham, De exordio ecclesiae Dunelmensis. f. 100r: Charta Ecgfridi Northumbriae Regis. ff. 100v-114r: Historia de Ranulfo et alijs aliquot. ff. 114r-129v: Historia de sancto Cuthberto et de commemoratione Locorum Regionumque eius prisce possessionis a primo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

35. Harley MS 552

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 552
Title:
Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia (transcribed from Cotton MS Tiberius A III)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia; a transcript from Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff. 174r-177r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page; added in the 16th century, possibly by Laurence Nowell.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Harley MS 560

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 560
Title:
Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis; Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (excerpts), ‘Collectiones de vita et miraculis D. Johannis Berlaci [etc.]’. ff. 14v-43v: Liberties and privileges of the church of St John at Beverley (‘Liberates Ecclesiae sancti Johannis de Beverlie’); featuri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley MS 585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585
Title:
Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:
Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

38. Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
101 folios.

39. Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

40. Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:
A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

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