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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2955
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Metz
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French. ff. 14r-60v: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 61r-71v: Penitential Psalms. ff. 72r-75v: Litany. ff. 76r-122v: Office of the Dead. ff. 123r-142v: Prayers to say during the Mass in French, including prayers to Our Lord, the angels, for after the eleva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2956
Title:: Ordinal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-46v, 50r-122r: Ordinal, Use of Sarum, with litanies including English saints such as Aethelwold, Cuthbert, Dunstan, Edmund and Swithun. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 47r-49v: Added paper booklet with additional texts to the Ordinal, in Latin, including 'Ordo c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2958
Title:: Office book of Trier Cathedral
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-68r: Office book of Trier Cathedral ('Liber officiarius ecclesiae treverensis collegii'), containing instructions for liturgical readings for feasts of the Temporale and Sanctorale. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 27r, 68v: Effaced inscriptions, possibly containi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2959
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Added inscriptions (see Provenance). ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French, including the feasts of St Audoin ('Ouen', 24 August) and St Romanus of Rouen ('Romain', 23 October) in red. ff. 14r-17v: Gospel readings. ff. 17v-19v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 19v-21v: 'O intemerata'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2960
Title:: Consecratio olei
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Consecratio olei; musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 13r-17r). This is the same text as in Harley MS 2964, but with part of the text omitted on f. 9r and inserted on f. 34r with a bishop's mitre drawn in the margin to be used as a cue. Decoration: Armorial i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1473-1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2961
Title:: Leofric Collectar
Scope & Content:: The Leofric Collectar, comprising a collectar, a hymnal and a series of sequences for a community of secular canons. The manuscript is imperfect: it ends mid-sequence and appears to be missing its final quire. Judging by its script, it was made at Exeter during the episcopate of Bishop Leofric ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1050-1072
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2962
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: A parchment flyleaf. ff. 2r-13v: Calendar. ff. 14r-18r: Hours of the Cross. ff. 19r-22v: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 23r-26v: Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary. ff. 26v-30r: Gospel readings. ff. 30r-32v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 32v-34v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 34v-41v: Su...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2963
Title:: Ritual for the Anointing of the Sick
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-107r: Ritual for the Anointing of the Sick, entitled: 'Incipit uncio Infirmorum'; beginning with a chant: 'Pax huic domui [Responsorium] et cum omnibus habitantibus in ea. Dominus vobiscum Et cum spiritu tuo', followed by a collect, beginning: 'omnipotens et misericos deus quae...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1539
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2964
Title:: Consecratio olei, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Consecratio olei, imperfect; with musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 18r-22r). The same text as in Harley MS 2960, but in the right order (see Harley MS 2960 for more details), and missing the first folio. Decoration: Initial in colours and gold with a bar b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1473-1480
Extent:: 1 volume

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