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Project / Collection Harley Collection Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Language German, Middle High

1. Harley MS 2430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2430
Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2621

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2621
Title:
Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 8v: the mass sequence 'Ave gloriosa virginum regina vitis generosa', with neumes. ff. 9r-48v: Horace, Epistulae, glossed throughout, imperfect at the end. Decoration: 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue, occasionally with palmette motifs (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2836

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2836
Title:
The first volume of a Bible in two parts (Genesis-Hebrews, without the Psalms)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-336v: The first volume (containing Genesis-Hebrews, without the Psalms) of a Latin Bible in two parts; for the second volume, see Harley MS 2837. The manuscript contains various additions: f. [iv]recto: A previously unidentified legal document from Beinwil Abbey, a Benedicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2841

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2841
Title:
Middle High German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This German prayer-book contains a large number of vernacular prayers to Christ and the Virgin Mary for personal devotional reading, and prayers, containing incipits of Psalms and liturgical prayers in Latin, for the canonical hours and the Mass. The manuscript was written for a female religious...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1480-1483
Extent:
Parchment manuscript

5. Harley MS 2854

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2854
Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents f. 2r: A 'bleeding table', in which Golden Numbers (1-19) are correlated with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with indications of their influence: 'Aries bonum - Thaurus malum - Gemini malum [etc.]'. ff. 3r-14v: Latin Calendar with Cisioianus; the name of each month is translated into Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2870

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2870
Title:
Fragment of a Sequentiary for the Temporale and Sanctorale with added chants for moveable and Marian masses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragment of a Sequentiary (ff. 1r-27r), containing Sequences for the Temporale and Sanctorale, with chants for moveable and Marian feasts (ff. 26v-31v), added in a German-speaking area. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: The [Christmas] Sequence: 'Letabundus exulted fidelis choru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2890

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2890
Title:
Psalter, with litany and additional prayers and canticles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar of Saints, including Erhard of Regensburg (10 January); 'Eulalie virginis' (4 February) and 'Eulalii episcopi' (23 February); Waldpurge (27 February and 1 May); Ludger, Bishop of Münster (26 March); Gotthard of Hildesheim (5 May); Winibald (7 July, highlighted); Xi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3156

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3156
Title:
Nicholas of Lyra, Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia; Amicus (alphabetical sermon collection); two short sermons
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A description of the manuscript’s contents (‘lyra super quatuor ewangelia et quedam alijs secundum ordinem alphabeti’). ff. 2r-258r Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349), Commentarius super quatuor Evangelia (Commentary on the Four Gospels). ff. 259r-321r: A German collect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 3583

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3583
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale puerorum, glossed
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-92v: Alexander of Villedieu [de Villa Dei], Doctrinale puerorum, glossed. The manuscript contains two additions: f. 93v: A fragment of a legal document concerning a 'Thomas Rormülner', a grocer from Nuremberg, who went on trial at Bamberg for murder; written in Middle German ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1286
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 3971

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3971
Title:
Karl der Grosse und die schottischen Heiligen (Poem on Charlemagne and the Scottish saints)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66r: Karl der Grosse und die schottischen Heiligen (Poem on Charlemagne and the Scottish saints). This poem, a production of the Irish monastic community (called 'scoti') on the Continent, is 'a close verse rendering of the principal sections (IV and V) of a Latin prose chronic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume