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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2801
Title:: A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 2 (June-September), with a fragment of a calendar
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in June-September, and a fragment of a calendar. The first volume is Harley MS 2800 (January-May), and the third volume is Harley MS 2802 (October-December). Contents: f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1170-c. 1180
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2802
Title:: A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 3 (October-December), with a calendar
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in October-December. The first volume is Harley MS 2800 (January-May), and the second volume is Harley MS 2802 (June-September). Contents: f. 1v: Added contents page. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1170-c. 1180
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2803
Title:: Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:: First volume of a two-volume monumental Bible (the second volume is Harley MS 2804, Psalms to Acts 16:17, imperfect), containing the Latin Vulgate from Genesis to Job. Decoration: 1 large miniature in colours and gold of Jerome writing, before his preface (f. 1v). 19 very large historiated in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex; 301 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2804
Title:: Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Psalms-Acts 16:17, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Second volume of a two-volume monumental Bible (the first volume is Harley MS 2803, Genesis to Job), containing the Latin Vulgate from Psalms to Acts 16:17, imperfect. Decoration: 2 large miniatures in colours and gold of Jerome writing and of David as a harpist at the preface to Psalms (ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 274 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2805
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect. Decoration: Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2806
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-472v: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 431r-472v). The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1r, 2r, 474r-474v: A list of contents in various hands, added texts in Latin; 13th and 14th century? f. 475v: A list of payments, li...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2807
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-336r: Bible (without the Psalms); The Prologue to Esdras (f. 129v) is immediately followed by Proverbs, Esdras begins on f. 240 after another prologue on f. 239v (following Esther). Numbered subdivisions in the Gospels. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-2r: Post...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2808
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms), including the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-427r: Bible (without the Psalms); certain sections divided according to letters from a-g and arabic figures written in the margin. ff. 434r-469r: Interpretation of Hebrew Names, ending: 'Expliciunt interpretationes fac ad exemplanum domini .R. card.' f. 469v: Erased texts, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2809
Title:: Bible without the Psalms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 6r-362v: Bible without the Psalms, imperfect. The manuscript contains various additions: Numerous marginal annotations in medieval hands. f. 1r: Prayers to the Virgin Mary ('Ave Maria gracia plena'); added in the (?) 13th century. f. 1v: A list of 'Apocripha'; added in the (?...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2810
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-404v: Bible (without the Psalms), including Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 381r-404v), ending imperfectly at the beginning of the first letter to Timothy. The manuscript contains a few additions: A few marginal annotations added by later medieval owners throughout the ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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