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1. Harley MS 1662

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1662
Title:
Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-15v: Calendar, including saints related to the dioceses of Utrecht, Liège and Cologne. ff. 17v-62v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary, Unidentified Use. ff. 62v-66v: The Hours of Christ, with a rubric: 'Hijr beginnen die seven getiden van onsen lieven heren ihesu Chrste seer oirb...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1463-c 1476
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 1886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1886
Title:
Keimpe van Martena, Liber Terrarum of Frisia; charter of Caspar de Robles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title page for an administrative work (‘debt book’) [not included in the manuscript] by Christoffel van Sternsee (b. 1525, d. 1560), bailiff of Harlingen (1549-1560), written in German: ‘Vermerkht des Haübtman Cristof van Sternsee: drosort zue harlingenn Im frieszlandt, Schul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, German, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2434

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2434
Title:
Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-14v: Calendar in Dutch, with a number of saints related to Utrecht including 'Sarijs' [Marius] (19 January). ff. 16r-39r: The Hours of the Holy Virgin: imperfect at the beginning. ff. 40r-72v: The Hours of the Holy Spirit, entitled: 'Hier beghint die hilige gheest getide' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1485
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2444
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 7r-18r: A treatise on the meaning of Mass in Low German, with the introductory rubric: 'Dit is dat beduytnisse van der heylger missen. As der priester anden elter kumpt ee he die miss an heefft so nyget he sich tzo der eerden'; beginning: 'Dat beduyt dat nygen dat sich der hemelsc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Low and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2562

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2562
Title:
Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Vita Terentii. f. 1v: Argumentum fabulae Andriae. ff. 2r-277v: Terence, Comoediae; including Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timoroumenos, Hecyra, Phormio, Adelphi, and versuum distinctione; imperfect at the end. Decoration: Large initials in red. Abbreviations of protagonis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2752

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2752
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius), a collection of 124 letters written by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65) towards the end of his life. Contents: ff. 1r-89r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2881

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2881
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-279r: Breviary, begins with a calendar (ff. 4r-18v), followed by the texts of the Breviary (ff. 18v-297r), with the first rubric 'De adventu domini' written below the calendar on the last ruled line on f. 18v. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1v: A prayer phrased...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2896

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2896
Title:
Missal, with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-139r: Missal, with musical notation; with marginal instructions for songs (with musical notation), prayers and postures (ff. 25r, 26r, 27v, 28v, 57v, 58r) added by a 16th-century hand. ff. 139v-140r: An index of liturgical feasts, entitled: 'Index eorum que in hoc opusculo tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2943

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2943
Title:
Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-15v: Prayer for communion, with a rubric: ‘Dit gebet selmen lesen als men wil gaen totten heiligen sacrament te ontfanghen’, beginning: ‘O overste priester ende gewaer biscop here ihesu criste die di selven offerste gode dinen vader’. ff. 15v-16r: Pra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1486
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2957

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2957
Title:
Usuard, Martyrology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologue to Usuard's Martyrology, entitled: 'De prologis diversis super opus martirologij: per quos patet . quantam diligentiam sancti et antiqui ad compilacionem huius opusculi habebant'; featuring a letter by Cromantius et Heliodorus to Jerome on ff. 1r-1v ('Epistola Chr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume