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51. Harley MS 2965

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2965
Title:
The Book of Nunnaminster
Scope & Content:
A decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels. The text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 7653 (the Harley Prayerbo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 1st quarter of 10th century
Extent:
1 volume

52. Harley MS 3013

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3013
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, Epistola ad Ehfridum; Aldhelm of Sherborne, De laudibus virginitatis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two didactic works composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury; and the De laudibus virginitatis (In Praise of Virginity), a work in 60 chapters extolling v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

53. Harley MS 3271

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271
Title:
Collection of grammatical and computistical texts
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous collection including: Grammatical text on the genre of nouns and pronouns, formation of verbs and the first and second declination (ff. 1r-6r); The Tribal Hidage (f. 6v); Aelfric, Grammar (ff. 7r-90r); Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus (ff. 90r-92v); Grammatical...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
129 folios.

54. Harley MS 3271, f 6v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, f 6v
Title:
Tribal Hidage.
Scope & Content:
The Tribal Hidage, a list of thirty-five tribes and assessments of hides for territories south of the Humber. According to Featherstone (2001), it is the earliest and most complete of the seven surviving medieval manuscripts of the Tribal Hidage.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
1 folio.

55. Harley MS 3271, ff 90r-92v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3271, ff 90r-92v
Title:
Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus.
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous notes including notes on computus including eight rubrics: 'De triginta argenteos', 'De arca Noe' (extracts from Interrogationes Sigewulfi), 'De diebus malis', 'De diebus fesstis', 'De pactis', 'De concurrentibus', 'De alleluia', 'De solae'; and passages on the number of months, da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
3 folios.

56. Harley MS 3271, ff 115v-120r

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.

57. Harley MS 3271, ff 124r-125r

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.

58. Harley MS 3271, ff 125v-128v

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.

59. Harley MS 3271, ff 128v-129r

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

60. Harley MS 3376

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

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