Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: English - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2811
Title:: Bible, with Psalms and Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-459v: Bible (with Psalms), imperfect: missing the beginning of the prologue to Genesis. ff. 460r-470v: Interpretation of Hebrew Names, organised alphabetically; imperfect (only covers 'A' - 'C'). The manuscript contains various additions: Copiously annotated (especially in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2814
Title:: A Bible, with an added calendar of the Use of York and liturgical readings
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Bible dating from the 2nd half of the 13th century, with an added calendar of the Use of York and liturgical readings. The added portion must postdate the council held at York Minster in 29 October 1478 when the feast of the translation of St William of York was transf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2820/1
Title:: Detached ivory panel from Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Ivory panel of the Crucifixion with the four symbols of the Evangelists and the Manus Dei from an earlier binding, now mounted in a post-1600 British Museum binding of brown leather, formerly attached to Harley MS 2820 (the 'Cologne Gospels).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: Ivory panel and binding

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 2887
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of the Earls of Ormond')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 21r-26v: Calendar. ff. 29v-32v, 34r-54v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary. ff. 54v, 59r-64r: The Fifteen Oes ['Quindecim Oos']. ff. 64r-66r: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'O Intemerata et in eternum benedicta singularis atque incomparabilis virgo dei'. ff. 66r-67v: Pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2931
Title:: Cistercian Ordinal
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: a hymn with musical notation (beginning 'Exsurge Domine adiuva nos'), followed by collects. ff. 4r-15v: a combined liturgical and astrological calendar. ff. 16r-18v: lunar and planetary tables. ff. 19r-109v: Cistercian Ordinal. ff. 110r-110v: an added hymn with mus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th 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 2954
Title:: A Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar. ff. 15r-39v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary; ('die Vrouwe getide'). ff. 40r-46v: The Seven Penitential Psalms ('seven salm'). ff. 46v-50v: Litany of Saints. ff. 51r-54v: The Hours of the Holy Cross (die H. Cruus getide'), imperfect due to the loss of severa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and English
Date Range:: 2nd 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

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