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1. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 3125

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3125
Title:
Commentary on the Canon of the Mass; Peter Cantor, Verbum abbreviatum; Alan of Lille, Summa de arte praedicatoria; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were separately produced in the 12th century: ff. 1-21 (Part 1); and ff. 22-77 (Part 2). Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-1v: Eucharistic miracle, beginning: 'Narrabat abbas Daniel dicens quod pater noster Arsenius dixerit'. ff. 1v-2r: Untitled tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. 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

4. Harley MS 3224

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3224
Title:
Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae; Forma dictandi; Richard de Bury, Philobiblon; Contra luxuriam; John of Limoges, Morale somnium Pharaonis
Scope & Content:
This volume once belonged to William Welde, a Benedictine, doctor of canon law, and Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury from 1387 until his death in 1405. Among the contents of the manuscript are copies of Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae (On the plaint of nature), a satire on the vices...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume