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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4350, ff 68r-113r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Computus correctorius with a commentary and tables preceded by a canon (ff. 111r-113r)
Scope & Content:: Decoration: Historiated initial 'C'(omputus) of an astronomer consulting tables, at the beginning of the text (f. 68v). Large foliate initial 'C'(apitulum) at the beginning of the list of contents. Initials in red with blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 45 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4350, ff 114r-119v
Title:: Astronomical calendar including English saints: 'Kentegerni, Cuthberti, Oswaldi'
Scope & Content:: Decoration: Letters KL in red and blue with red and blue pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 6 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 2-8
Title:: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r-8v: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi, 'In festivitate corporis Christi ad jesperas [sic] super psalmos' (with added lectiones on ff. 8r-8v). Decoration: Numerous small initials in blue or red with, respectively, red or blue penwork decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 9-125
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: ff. 9r-124r: Breviary (the 'Coldingham Breviary'), including the Temporale, with many additional instructions added in the margins. f. 125v: An instruction, written in Old French, about reading a sundial or astrolabe. Decoration: One full-page miniature on f. 125v: a Benedictine monk (pres...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1270 - c 1280
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4664, ff 126-332
Title:: Calendar; Psalter with litany of saints, hymns and biblical readings; Hymnal; Sanctorale
Scope & Content:: ff. 126r-132v: Calendar with computes for easter (ff. 132r, 132v). ff. 133r-180v: Psalter with litany of saints (ff. 175r-176v), hymns and biblical readings. ff. 181r-197v: Hymnal, including a hymn for St Cuthbert, with music notation. ff. 198r-332v: Sanctorale with several prayers added in ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 1r-19v
Title:: Bonaventure, Itinerarium mentis in Deum and Testamentum patriarcharum
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-10r: Bonaventure, Itinerarium mentis in Deum, with a prologue, incipit: 'In principio primum principium'; incipit (text): 'Beatus vir cuius est auxilium (...) Cum beatitudo nihil alius'; explicit: 'Explicit meditatione Bonaventur. magistri'. The text on ff. 1r-2v was added at the end of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1275-c 1300
Extent:: 19 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 20r-47v
Title:: Augustine, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae with a collection of sermons and Boethius, De trinitate
Scope & Content:: ff. 20r-40v: Augustine, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, incipit: 'Cum omnipotentis dei auxilio de mirabilibus rerum cupimus tractare'; with a preface (imperfect), incipit: 'mortem ipsam paulo', and a list of contents. ff. 41r-41v: Augustine, Sermo 350, rubric: 'Incipit liber augustini de lau...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 28 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 48r-55v
Title:: M. Tullius Cicero, De amicitia
Scope & Content:: M. Tullius Cicero, De amicitia, title: 'Tulius de vera amicicia', incipit: 'Ego ipse mea legens sic afficior'; with added notes (late 13th/early 14th century) including references to Anselm and Bede (f. 55v). Decoration: Initials in red. Capital letters highlighted in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 56r-81v
Title:: Martyrologium
Scope & Content:: Martyrologium, with a preface attributed to Usuardus, here attributed to Gregory, rubric: 'Incipiunt institutiones beati gregorii quomodo venerandi sunt sancti', incipit (preface): 'Estivitates sanctorum apostolorum seu martirum antiqui patres', incipit: 'Cum sanctorum fortia gesta ad memoriam'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 26 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4725, ff 82r-155v
Title:: Richard of Saint-Victor, De duodecim patriarchis and John Beleth, Summa de ecclesiasticis officiis
Scope & Content:: ff. 82r-82v: Definitions of terms, incipit: 'Intellectus est potencia naturalis'. ff. 83r-119r: Richard of Saint-Victor, De duodecim patriarchis (Beniamin minor) incipit: 'Beniamin adolescentulus in mentis excessu (...) Audiant adolescentuli sermonem de adolescente'. ff. 119v-155v: John Beleth...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1200
Extent:: 74 folios.

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