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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2519
Title:: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Preface. ff. 3v-13v: Table of contents. ff. 14r-80v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; ending: 'Explicit liber Avicij Mansii Severini Boecij Exconsularis Ordinarij Patricij de consolacione philosophie - Magister W. fferon'. Decoration: Added ink sketch of a bear...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2809
Title:: Bible without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 6r-362v: Bible without the Psalms, imperfect. The manuscript contains various additions: Numerous marginal annotations in medieval hands. f. 1r: Prayers to the Virgin Mary ('Ave Maria gracia plena'); added in the (?) 13th century. f. 1v: A list of 'Apocripha'; added in the (?...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2849
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents ff. 1r-46v: The Hours of the Virgin. ff. 47r-99r: The Office of the Dead with musical notation on four-line red staves (ff. 47-98v). ff. 99r-109v: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 109v-125r: Litany of saints, followed by other litanies for 'feria [secunda] in quadragesima' until 'feri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2945
Title:: Processional
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-171r: Processional, imperfect at the beginning; containing a litany, listing various English saints on ff. 57v-58r, 58v, and 134v-135r, including Aldhelm, Birinus, Edith, Edmund, Edward, Oswald, and Etheldreda, Swithun (ff. 167v-168); featuring musical notation on four-line red...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2973
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: A composite prayer book with materials from two 16th-century prayer books that were produced produced but contain identical prayers: ff. 4r-64v and ff. 65r-121v respectively. It is possible that one is a copy of the other. Contents: Part 1: f. 4r: 'A prayer called Ave rex'. f. 4v: 'A praye...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1530s-1550s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3000
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, and Psalter; Augustine, Contra Epistolam Manichæi Quam Vocant Fundamentum
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two parts. Part 1 (ff. 2-271) is a Book of Hours made in the Southern Netherlands for the English market between c. 1460 and c. 1470. Part 2 (ff. 272v-277r) is a letter by Augustine against the Manichaeans that was copied in England in 1554. Contents: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-1554
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3118
Title:: Collection of Latin and English sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 3r: A preface ('Ad lectorem prefacio'), beginning: 'Hunc librum rudi minerva cusum pie lector ne despicias . sed lecturus in eo si nil offendas quo moreris . sine mora transeas ne offendaris'. f. 3v: A table of contents for the manuscript, entitled: 'Tabula sermonum sequentium'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3170
Title:: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-21v: An alphabetical index to the sermons of Matthew; imperfect due to the loss of folios and beginning with the letter 'C'. ff. 22r-231r: Pseudo-John Chrysostom, Sermons on Matthew; imperfect at the beginning due to an erased opening page (featuring only the decorated initia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3207
Title:: William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Arnold of Liège, Alphabetum narrationum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-14r: William of Pagula (d. 1332), Oculus Sacerdotis, beginning: 'Cum ecclesiae quibus preficistuntur [sic: preficiuntur] persone minus ydonee Sciencia moribus'; imperfect, ends abruptly on f. 14r, leaving f. 14v blank. ff. 15r-248v: Arnold of Liège (fl. 1290-1310), Alphabetum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3231
Title:: Honorius of Autun, Elucidarius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-29v: Honorius of Autun (b. 1080, d. c. 1154), Elucidarius. Decoration: Rubrics and highlighting in red. Space left for unexecuted initials.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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