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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2821
Title:: Gospel-book
Scope & Content:: ff. 2v-8r: Prefatory material including: St Jerome's Epistle to Damasus, beginning, 'Novum opus facere' (ff. 2v-5v); preceded by two full page images of the commendation of an abbot (or a monk) to Christ (ff. 1v-2r) and two full-page incipit pages (2v-3r); Argumentum, beginning, 'Sciendum etiam ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2822
Title:: Bible, with the Psalms and without the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-331v: Bible, with the Psalms (ff. 147r-163v), and without the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 322r: Notes on Revelation, beginning 'Numerus bestie; 666'; followed by a table of biblical books entitled: 'Ordo librorum huius volu...
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 2823
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2824
Title:: Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-576r: Bible, including the Psalms (ff. 242r-269r) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 543r-576r). The manuscript contains a few later additions: Marginal annotations throughout the manuscript. f. 576v: Additions in different hands, including a list with biblical ref...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1230-c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2825
Title:: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-370v: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; the text is missing the beginning of II Chronicles. Includes the Psalms (ff. 162r-180v) and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 344-370v); with the inscription on f. 343v: 'Exaucto libro sic laus et gloria...
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 2826
Title:: Four Gospels with canon tables, prologues and capitula (the 'Eller Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologues; ff. 4r-9v: Canon tables; ff. 10r-149r: The four Gospels with capitula and prefaces; f. 150v: Added 10th-century list made by Hatto of the furnishings and books of the monastery of Eller. The list includes a codex edged with silver and ivory, containing the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2827
Title:: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-458r: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 426r-458r). The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 459r-460v: Lections for liturgical feasts; added in the 14th century. ff. 460v-461r: A text on the life of Secundus the Silent (fl. 2nd century), beg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2828
Title:: Bible, including Jerome’s preface, and Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum
Scope & Content:: Bible with Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1228). f. 1v: table of contents, 14th century. ff. 2r-4v: Jerome’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2829
Title:: Pauline Epistles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Pauline Epistles. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A table itemizing the Pauline Epistles; added in the 16th century. Decoration: Large initials in red with foliate motifs. Smaller initials in red (some oxidised). Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2830
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins. ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 5v-58v: Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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