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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3240
Title:: Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illuminated copy of the popular anonymous late medieval illustrated treatise, the Speculum humanae salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation, and was made in either Germany or Switzerland in the last quarter of the 14th century. Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Speculum human...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3241
Title:: Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Sententiae (Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160), a systematic compilation of theological texts, that was extremely popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume also contains the diagram of a tree of consanguinity, illustrating the relationships be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3242
Title:: Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita; Paul the Deacon, Historia romana
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-116v: Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita. Each book begins with a capitula list. ff. 117r-247v: Paul the Deacon [but here attributed to Eutropius), Historia romana. Decoration: Large initials in red and green with red pen-flourishing and often foliate decoration (ff. 1r, 18r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1519-1520
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3243
Title:: A compilation of philosophical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-140r: An anonymous compilation of philosophical tracts, including: ff. 1r-8v: Thomas Bradwardine, De Proportione velocitatum in motibus. ff. 47r-56r: Richard Brinkley, Summa logicae. ff. 63r-64v: Adam Wodeham, Lectura secunda. ff. 91r-100v: the tract known as Utrum per debi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains: f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2r-18v: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius. ff. 19r-26v: Alain de Lille, Liber Penitentialis, appended with 'De confessione' (f. 26r) and Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo de diversis (ff. 26r-26v). ff. 27r-33v: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 192 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 2r-18v
Title:: Honorius Augustodunensis, Elucidarius
Scope & Content:: The Elucidarius by Honorius Augustodunensis (c. 1080–1137), incipit: 'Sepius rogatus...'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 19r-26v
Title:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille), Liber Penitentialis
Scope & Content:: Liber Penitentialis by Alain de Lille (or Alanus ab Insula) (c. 1128–1203). Rubric: 'Incipit penitenciale secundum magistrum Alanum', incipit: 'A domine deus'. Followed by a rubric 'De confessione' (f. 26r), incipit: 'Trinum deum peccator offendit'; and a sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux (Sermo de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 27r-33v
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis
Scope & Content:: An extract from the Summa de vitiis composed by Willelmus Peraldus (d. 1261) in c. 1236. Rubric: 'Incipit capituli in libro de vitiis', incipit: 'Tractatus iste continet ix partes'. The text is preceded by a set of four full-page prefatory images in tinted drawing: f. 27r: A Dominican friar ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 33v-35v
Title:: De sex alis cherubim
Scope & Content:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille) (c. 1128–1203) (?), De sex alis cherubim, rubric: 'De prima ale que dicitur confessio et cuiusdem prima penna que dicitur veritas', incipit: 'Prima ala est'. The earliest manuscript attributions of this text are to Clement of Llanthony (prior of Llanthony and th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 3 folios.

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