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11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Harley MS 5074

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5074
Title:
The Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, Creed, Confession; Sermons (Advent Sunday-Palm Sunday); Passion narrative; Sermons (Easter Sunday-Sunday of the Holy Fathers)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: The Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Creed, and a confession of the Deadly Sins in Middle German, introduced as a ‘useful book for Christian people’ ('nuttelyc booc den kersten menschen'). ff. 5r-87v: A collection of sermons on the Gospels in Middle German, organised according t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
1460
Extent:

A paper codex

18. Harley MS 5403

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5403
Title:
Alchemical tracts; German treatise on the transmutation of the elements; alchemical recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-15v: Alchemical tracts in Latin. ff. 16r-37r: A German treatise on the transmutation of the elements. f. 37v-38r: An alchemical recipe by Johannes Ediling. ff. 38v-56v: Alchemical tracts in Latin. ff. 56v-59v: Tracts in German by Nicholaus of Breslau. ff. 60r-72v: Alchemi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume