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42. Harley MS 684
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 684
- Title:
- William Somner, Commentary and glossary on the laws of Henry I
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1*recto: A title-page: ‘Gulielmi Somneri Commentarius in Leges Henrici I cum Glossario’. ff. 1r-55r: William Somner (bap. 1598, d. 1669), antiquary and Anglo-Saxon scholar, Commentary on the laws of Henry I; dedicated to Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), second baronet, antiquar...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
43. Harley MS 761
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 761
- Title:
- Latin - Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
- Scope & Content:
- Quarto manuscript volume containing a Latin to Anglo-Saxon dictionary, with grammatical observations. Many of the entries are in the hand of Abraham Wheelocke [or Whelock].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
44. Harley MS 863
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 863
- Title:
- Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a Psalter (ff. 8r-123v) that was written by scribes who also produced manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072 (see Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints (1991) no. 23). The manuscript also includes a 12th-century Kalendar with many later a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century-12th century
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
45. Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 863 ff 8-123v
- Title:
- Psalter, with canticles, litany for the use of Exeter, prayers, and offices (The 'Leofric Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: This Psalter has been identified in other manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072). ff. 8r-108v: The Gallican version of the Psalms with Canticles. A continuous interlinear Old English gloss to the Canticle 'Quicumque vult' (ff. 107r-v). ff. 108v-111v: Lit...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Extent:
- Part of Harley MS 863
46. Harley MS 1005
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1005
- Title:
- Bury St Edmunds customary (‘Liber albus’)
- Scope & Content:
- Register known as ‘Liber albus’ (‘The White Book’): an inventory of charters, arranged under the headings Regum, Privilegia, Celeraria, Sacristia, de Camera, Elemosinar., De hospitali, Pitanciaria, De domo hospitum, De infirmaria, and Abbatia, each with numbered topographical subdivisions. Bound...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Early 12th century-Early 15th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
47. Harley MS 1117
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 1117
- Title:
- Verses on the translation of Edward the Martyr; Bede's prose and verse Vitae sancti Cuthberti; excerpts from Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica; an office for St Cuthbert; a poem on Abbot Wigbeorht; offices of St Benedict and St Guthlac
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript includes material for the cult of St Cuthbert as well as poems and offices for other English churchmen and saints and for St Benedict. Bede's Lives of Cuthbert are glossed in Latin and Old English, in a hand which seems to be contemporary with the main text. The manuscript incl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1000
- Extent:
-
1 volume
48. Harley MS 2110
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2110
- Title:
- Cartulary of Castle Acre Priory
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 4*r–5*v: Fragment of Ælfric, Homilies, first series, for St John and St Stephen (1st half of the 11th century, Old English, written in insular minuscule); with a large initial and title in display capitals in red (f. 4*r); 220 × 150 mm. One bifolium, missing four lines of text in the upper p...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
49. Harley MS 2345
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2345
- Title:
- A collection of sermons
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of sermons written in England, as suggested by the presence of sermons for several English saints including Alphege, Frideswide, and Samson. Contents: ff. 1r-23r: sermons for different days of the year, mostly Sundays. ff. 23r-79r: sermons for different saints’ days. ff. 79v: vo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
50. Harley MS 2674
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 2674
- Title:
- Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex
