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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624
Title:: Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three different parts gathered by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary. Two of these parts were written and compiled by him between c. 1639-1643, they consist of chronicles related to the history of Britain (ff. 1v-83r; 145r-217r). An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 1v-83
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: f. 2r: A title-page. f. 2v: A table of contents. ff. 4r-20v: Anonymous, Chronica de veteribus Brittanis et Anglo-Saxonibus (Chronicle on the Old Britons and Anglo-Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 84-143v
Title:: Passionale (Lives of Saints), imperfect
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 comes from a Passionale (Lives of Saints) that was written at Christ Church, Canterbury. It was originally bound with Cotton MS Nero C VII (ff. 29r-79r) and Harley MS 315 (ff. 1r-39r). Contents: ff. 84v-89v: Passio Sancti Theodoreti (Passion of St Theodore). ff. 89...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624, ff 144-217
Title:: Chronicles
Scope & Content:: This part of Harley MS 624 has been written by Sir Simonds d'Ewes, who compiled the manuscript between c. 1639-1643. Contents: ff. 144r-144v: A Latin inscription followed by a fragment from a letter in English referring to the inhabitants of Dalham, 17th century. f. 145r: A drawing of king W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1639-1643
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 624

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 628
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 633
Title:: Pseudo-Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Liber pontificalis; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales pseudo-Isidorianae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber pontificalis (the Book of the Popes), a collection of biographies of popes from St Peter until Pope Clement III (b. 1130, d. 1191), attributed to Anastasius Bibliothecarius (b. c. 810, d. c. 878). It also contains the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae (Pseudo-Isido...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 649
Title:: Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas; Homiliae Evangelii; In Tobiam; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica; list concerning ecclesiastical dioceses; Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich; Chronicle from the Creation to 1384; Series of English kings, from Alfred...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced in England. The first part (ff. 4-177) was produced in the third quarter of the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Reading (Berkshire). It contains a collection of chronicles as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter 12th century-4th quarter 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 1-184
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r–57v: Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), Bishop of Caesarea, Chronici Canones (Chronological Canons), translated by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), with his prologue; ending ‘Huc usque historiam scribit eusebius pamphili martiris contubermalis [sic]; cui nos ista subiecimus’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 185-191
Title:: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses, cities, churches and offices
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 185r–191v: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses and their cities, the churches of Rome, offices for cardinals, cardinal deacons, (arch)bishops, and patriarchs. Decoration: Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. 1 small initial in red with violet pen-flourish...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

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