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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5325
Title:: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-1*v: a fragment from an unidentified scientific text written in a 13th-century hand. ff. 1r-56v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus. Decoration: Initials in blue or red, some with foliate motifs.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 11th century-early 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5326
Title:: Statutes of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-25r: 'Nove ordinaciones' from the reign of Edward II. ff. 26r-37v: 'Magna Carta'. ff. 37v-43r: 'Carta de Foresta'. ff. 43r-48v: 'Statuta de Merton'. ff. 48v-61r: 'Statuta de Marlebrigges'. ff. 61r-84r: 'Prima statuta Westmonasterii'. ff. 84r-89v: 'Statuta de Gloucester'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1325
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5327
Title:: Martyrdom of Margaret of Antioch with prayers to various saints
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-34v: Passion of Margaret of Antioch, entitled: 'Incipit Passio Beate Margarate', and the incipit: 'Post resurrectionem domini nostri Ihesu Christi et gloriosam ascensionem eius in celum ad deum patrem ominpotentem'. ff. 34v-398v: Prayers to St Margaret of Antioch, the Virgin M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5328
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-19v: Gospel readings. ff. 20r-23v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 25r-70r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 71r-73v: Hours of the Cross. ff. 74r-76v: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 77r-89r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 89r-92r: Litany. ff. 93r-123r: Office of the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1480s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5330
Title:: Notes on Logic
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Notes on Logic (Latin). The manuscript contains several later additions: Inside of the upper cover: Lists of payments for various products to ‘Mr Bysh.’, dated to January 1697. f. 1r: A list of names of persons who have been paid. ff. 21r-21v: A list of payments, da...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5334
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–94r: Breviary. ff. 94v–95r: Intercessions for the abbots, priors and patrons of Bury St Edmunds Abbey. f. 99r–v: Added Marian prayer from the late 15th century. Decoration: 3 decorated initials in colours and gold with an acanthus leaf, with a partial bar border and foliate feathering...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century-early 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5339
Title:: A collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-113v ( + the insides of the upper and lower cover): Medical recipes in Latin; with an English recipe at the beginning: ‘To Rectified Sp[irit] of Wine per Robert Boyle Armiger’ [Robert Boyle (b. 1627, d. 1691), natural philosopher]. Decoration: A drawing of an arch with two ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5340
Title:: A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-63r: A notebook containing memoranda concerning ethics, law, logic, metaphysics and theology The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 2*recto, 57r-57v: Fractions, entitled: ‘Valuation of Fractio[n]’; added in the late 16th or 17th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5342
Title:: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of De vita Caesarum (On the Lives of the Caesars), a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (b. c. 69, d. after 122). Contents: ff. 1r-231v: Suetonius, De vita Caesarum. [[f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5344
Title:: Summa theologica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: an index of capitula. ff. 5v-182v: Summa theologica, a brief summary of theological subjects in seven parts; the first part is on God and the Trinity; the second part is on the humanity of Christ; the third part is on the Sacrament; the fourth part is on the Virgin Mary;...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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