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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton Papyrus 2
Title:: Egerton Gospel (P. Lond. Christ. 1, P. Egerton 2, TM 63527, LDAB 4736)
Scope & Content:: Fragments containing portions of an otherwise unknown Gospel (P. Lond. Christ. 1, P. Egerton 2). P. Köln VI 255 is from the same codex and follows on from fragment 1.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: Mid 2nd century
Extent:: Fragments of three leaves of a codex, mounted in glass.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 82
Title:: Register of Reading Abbey; Usuard, Martyrology; 'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains three parts that were separately produced: I: ff. 1r–3v (Register); II: ff. 4r–34v (Martyrology); III: ff. 35r–104v (Voyage d'outre mer). The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. The first pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688
Title:: A collection of fragments including Liutprand of Cremona, Antapodosis; a Miscellany; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epodes; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Carmen saeculare; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Epistles; Quintus Horatius Flaccus Satires; Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Boethius, De musica
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a composite miscellany made of five texts of different dates and origins (ff. 1-16; 17-22; 23-46; 47-54; 55-66), probably bound together after Edward Harley acquired the last part (ff. 55-66). Each text is separated by unfoliated parchment interleaves, which remain blank. Con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2719
Title:: Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2735
Title:: Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:: The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3097
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Botulphi; Vitae Tancredi, Torhtredi and Tovae; De Translatione Sanctorum Qui in Thornensi Monasterio Requiescunt; Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci; St Ambrose of Milan, Sermo de Observantia Episcoporum; Ambrose, De Misteriis; Ambrose, De Sacramentis; De Helia et Jejunio; Prologue to the Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Miracles of St Nicholas
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 419/420), followed by saints’ lives and sermons. It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot of Thorney Abbey and three saints at Thorney who were mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century - 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4804/1
Title:: Prologue on Psalms attributed to St Augustine; Book of Psalms including Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentarius in Psalterium
Scope & Content:: The first volume of two separate volumes with continuous foliation: Harley MS 4804/1 (ff. 1-167v), and Harley MS 4804/2 (ff. 168-336v). The first volume is a book of Psalms containing the commentary on the Psalms written by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. after 1085, d. 1154), copied in Chartres durin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7509
Title:: Collection of copies of Greek inscriptions made in Asia Minor by William Sherard (1659-1728), Consul for the Turkey Company at Smyrna
Scope & Content:: Collection of copies of Greek inscriptions made in Asia Minor by William Sherard (1659-1728), Consul for the Turkey Company at Smyrna. Partly published in Edmund Chishull, Antiquitates Asiaticae, 1728. An index is now Add MS 5109.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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