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161. Harley MS 436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 436
Title:
Cartulary of Wilton Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1*r-v: a letter in the hand of George Hickes (b. 1642, d. 1715), bishop and antiquary, addressed to Humfrey Wanley (b. 1672, d. 1726), recording his gift of the manuscript to Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724). f. 2*r: a note concerning the ownership of the manuscript by the Earl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

162. 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

163. 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

164. 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

165. 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

166. 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

167. 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

168. 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

169. Harley MS 3667

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

170. Harley MS 3826

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

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