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491. Harley MS 3145

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3145
Title:
Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains anonymous sermons, and sermons that have be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

492. Harley MS 3213

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3213
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew; Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark; Christian of Stavelot, Expositio in Matthaeum; St Augustine, Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini; patristic excerpts; St Augustine, Sermo de scripturis veteribus et novis et de trinitate contra Arrianos; anonymous treatise on heresy; Hexametric verses on the canonical hours
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a compilation of several commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, one by Remigius of Auxerre (b. c. 841, d. 908) and others attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Christian of Stavelot (fl. 865). The works form the basis for the 12th-century systemati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

493. Harley MS 3241

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3241
Title:
Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Sententiae (Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160), a systematic compilation of theological texts, that was extremely popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume also contains the diagram of a tree of consanguinity, illustrating the relationships be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

494. Harley MS 3250

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3250
Title:
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
Scope & Content:
A commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. Although the manuscript's origin is unknown, its provenance indicates that it was produced in England. Contents: ff. 1r-193r: Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, with a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v) and prologue (ff. 2v-5v: ‘introitus ad litteram libri’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

495. Harley MS 3253

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3253
Title:
Peter Lombard, Collectanea in omnes Pauli apostoli Epistulas
Scope & Content:
This late 12th or early 13th-century manuscript contains the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles of the French theologian Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). The manuscript was originally bound in two or more volumes, the second one starting on f. 205r (f. 204v is blank and unruled; f. 244v has ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

496. Harley MS 3441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3441
Title:
Justinian, Codex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most import...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

497. Harley MS 3509

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3509
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

498. Harley MS 3534

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3534
Title:
Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and marginal glosses. It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing Horace’ (1996), p. 107). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

499. Harley MS 3667

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3667
Title:
Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

500. Harley MS 3680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3680
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae; a tract on the conversion of Kent; Catalogus sanctorum qui in Anglia requiescunt, imperfect
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), the Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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