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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2944
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-12v: calendar; ff. 13r-17r: the Gospel Lessons; ff. 17v-23v: the Hours of the Cross; ff. 24r-82r: the Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); ff. 82v-93v: the Advent Hours; ff. 94r-114v: the Penitential Psalms followed by the litany and prayers; ff. 115r-157v: the Office of the Dead ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2945
Title:: Processional
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-171r: Processional, imperfect at the beginning; containing a litany, listing various English saints on ff. 57v-58r, 58v, and 134v-135r, including Aldhelm, Birinus, Edith, Edmund, Edward, Oswald, and Etheldreda, Swithun (ff. 167v-168); featuring musical notation on four-line red...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2946
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of Sarum, including: 1. Temporale, incipit (rubric): 'Dominica prima adventus domini', including an office for the dedication of the church (f. 176v); ends imperfectly in 'lectio I' of the dedication of the church, explicit: 'Etiam fratres videte quam pulcrum est templum quod edif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1405
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2947
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Besançon; Life of St Margaret in verse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, Use of Geneva, including the dedication of the Cathedral of St Peter in Geneva in red (8 October). f. 8r-v: 'Gaude virgo mater Christi'. ff. 9r-12v: Gospel readings. ff. 13r-14v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 15r-16v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 17r-21v: Hours of the Holy ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2948
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, Paris use (St Genevieve in red; 3 January), composite, alternately in red and blue with important feasts in gold. ff. 13r-16v: Added prayers with a title 'L'exercise ordinaire du Crestien. Quand on se leve le matin' (17th century). ff. 17r-20v: The Seven Joys of the Virgi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2949
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-114r: the Psalter. ff. 114r-123v: the Canticles. ff. 123v-125r: the Athanasian Creed. ff. 125r-v: prompts for the Penitential Psalms. ff. 125v-129r: the litany (Parisian saints). ff. 129r-130v: prayers. Decoration: Numerous 1-5 line initials with grisaille foliat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2950
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar, French (ff. 1r-12v). Created for the marriage of Guillaume de Seigne and Claudine Fortier’s marriage in 1508. ff. 31v-32v, 47v-48v, 132r-134v, 166r-v are blank. Decoration: 22 large miniatures mostly with small decorated initials (2 lines) and f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1510
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2951
Title:: Hymnal, use of Sarum, with a calendar
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript containing a hymnal in two parts (ff. 1r-117r and ff. 118r-125v) that were probably written in the 4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century. It is followed by a calendar (ff. 126-131v) that was produced in the early 14th century; and a lea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2953
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-9v: Calendar. ff. 11r-15r: Alphabetical index of Psalms. ff. 15v-18v: 'Mapheus Vegius Laudensis‏ [Maffeo Vegio (b. 1407, d. 1458)] de perseverancia religionis. libro V. Cap. IIJ. De Psalmodia'. ff. 21r-159v: Book of Psalms, including Psalm 151, entitled: 'Hic Psalmus pro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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