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1. Harley MS 2688

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

2. Harley MS 4804/1

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

3. Papyrus 2052

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2052
Title:
Fragment of Old Latin Genesis (P.Lond.Lit. 200, P.Oxy. VIII 1073, TM 62044, LDAB 3203)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of Old Latin Genesis containing 5:4-13, 29-31, 6:1-2. It preserves some verses not otherwise attested (vv. 3-7; 15-25; 30-31) and it cites a text not always coincident with other witnesses. Some divergences may be attributed to inexact quotation, others to a different recension, perhap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
end of 5th century
Extent:

Fragment of a vellum leaf from a parchment codex, written on both sides. Each side preserves one column of 25 lines, although the original manuscript was laid out in two columns per side. Housed in one glass case.

4. Papyrus 3124

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 3124
Title:
Bilingual Latin-Arabic Private Letter (TM 397934)
Scope & Content:
A private letter in Latin and Arabic languages, written in Latin alphabet, in which a certain Sati writes to an acquaintance named Iohanne, asking for news about Iohanne’s health and some economical matters concerning merchandise and trading of linen. A third man, named Custantin, is mentioned. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
7th century-9th century
Extent:

One papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with damages presumably due to folding; written on both sides, with 22 lines across the fibres on the recto, and 2 lines along the fibres on the verso. In the first six lines of the recto, the language used is Latin, but then it switches to Arabic, still written in Latin alphabet (rest of recto and verso). Mounted in one glass frame.

5. Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 B XIX
Title:
Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
10th century-11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex