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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2975
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar in Latin. f. 2r: A circular diagram with instruction for finding Sunday Letters and Golden Numbers, starting in the year 1500. f. 2v: 'Tabula duodecum signorum zodyaci'. ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including feasts for St Ludger, Bishop of Münster in Westph...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2976
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, containing numerous English saints; including, in red: 'Ambrosii', 'Augustini primi angelorum', 'Barnabe', 'Translatio sancti Thome', 'Anne', 'Remigii et Bavonis' (Flanders), 'Translatio sancti Edwardi', 'Martini'; and in brown: 'Vulfranni', 'Batildis', 'Cedde', '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2977
Title:: Ordinal (‘Rituale’) of Bury St Edmunds
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–50v: Ordinal of Bury St Edmunds, often called the ‘Rituale’: directions for services from Advent to 1 May (ends imperfect). Decoration: New sections open with a two-line Lombardic initial in red. The opening initial is in blue, with penwork decoration in red. Line drawings of grotesques...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2978
Title:: A Gospel Harmony of the Passion of Christ
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-26v: A Gospel Harmony of the Passion of Christ (beginning 'Matheus: dixit Jesus dicipulis suis scitis quia post biduum Pascha fiet'). Decoration: 1 4-line and 1 2-line initial with floral motifs in colours on gold grounds (f. 1r). Line-fillers in red, blue, and gold (f. 1r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2979
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Clermont (Hours of the Virgin), and Use of Brioude (Hours of the Dead)
Scope & Content:: This late 14th-century Book of Hours is especially known for it miniatures by the Workshop of Jean of Toulouse at Avignon. However, the manuscript contains also contains unusual textual items. Amongs these are previously unknown excerpts of the Prologue and Epilogue of Robert of Sorbonne (b. 120...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1390- c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2980
Title:: Book of Hours, probably Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar. ff. 14r-19v: Gospel lessons. ff. 20r-23r: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 23v-25v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 26r-37v: Hours of the Virgin, Vespers to Compline only (imperfect due to loss of leaves). ff. 38r-51r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 51r-54r: Litany. ff. 55r-58r: Ho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1470s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2981
Title:: Ordo processionis generalis perpetuo faciendae singulis annis die octavo mensis Maij pro liberatione civitatis Aurelianensis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-45v: A Responsorium to be sung by cantors of Church of Saint-Aignan and the Cathedral Church of Sainte-Croix during a procession through the city in six parts for the liberation, entitled: Ordo processionis generalis perpetuo faciendae singulis annis die octavo mensis Maij pro ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1642
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2982
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-8v: Calendar. ff. 9r-13r: The Fifteen Oes [Quindecim Orationes]. ff. 13v-14v: Memoria for St Thomas Becket. ff. 15r-15v: Memoria for St Mary Magdalene. ff. 16r-43v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary ('Incipiunt hore beate marie viringis secundum consuetudinem anglie'). ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2983
Title:: Ordinal for Hereford Cathedral
Scope & Content:: This liturgical manuscript is an Ordinal for the Use of Hereford Cathedral. It is a composite volume of which ff. 47-82 is the original portion, dating from the late 13th century. In the first quarter of the 14th century, supplementary material for developing offices and the latter part of the C...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2984
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-117v, 122r-281r: Missal, Use of Sarum; with musical notation on four-line red staves (f. 14v). The litanies include English saints such as Edmund, Swithun, Ethelwold (Aethelwold), Dunstan and Cuthbert (ff. 104r-104v, 268v-269v). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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