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3641. Harley MS 5431

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5431
Title:
Rule of St Benedict; Various Theological Writings
Scope & Content:
This codex contains two main items. The first part is decorated copy of the Rule of St Benedict made in the late 10th or early 11th century. The second part consists of various theological tracts, including works by Bernard of Clairvaux and Guillelmus Peraldus, copied between the late 13th centu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century-2nd half 13th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

3642. Harley MS 5431, ff 4r-126v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5431, ff 4r-126v
Title:
Regula S Benedicti, Pseudo-Fulgentius, Collectio capitularis of the synods of Aachen, and Memoriale Qualiter
Scope & Content:
These folios contain an ornately decorated copy of the textus receptus of the Rule of St Benedict made in the 2nd half or 4th quarter of the 10th century, along with computus material, texts related to the synods of Aachen of 816-819 (including the Collectio capitularis, and Memoriale qualiter) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 10th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 5431

3643. Harley MS 5431, ff 127r-270v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5431, ff 127r-270v
Title:
Various theological works, including Bernard of Clairvaux's De praecepto et dispensatione; Guillelmus or Willelmus Peraldus, De professione monachorum; Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia to Abbot William; Hugh of Barzelles' De cohabitatione fratrum; excerpts on faith from Robert Kilwardby's quaestiones on Peter Lombard's Sentences; Jerome's Tractatus de oboedientia; Hugh of St Victor's De oblivione praeteritorum; Hugh of St Victor's De quinque statibus humanae vitae
Scope & Content:
These folios contain a variety of theological writings, copied between the second half of the 13th century and the 15th century and bound together with the earlier folios in the medieval period. These texts include: ff. 127r-172v: Bernard of Clairvaux's De praecepto et dispensatione, copied in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 13th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 5431

3644. Harley MS 5432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5432
Title:
Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-188: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. p. 189 is a ruled parchment leaf with an erased inscription. Decoration: Large initial in gold on a blue panel with foliate decoration, combined with a full border with flowers, cornucopias, candelabras, dragon heads and a defaced...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3645. Harley MS 5433

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5433
Title:
Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-70: Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's De somno Scipionis, written in 1446: the scribe or a near contemporary hand added 'D. M. N. B. N.', 'Qui scripsit vivat letus semper / Propitius esto Mihi misero p. Nove[m]bris / Deo Laus. Explicit comentum macrobij die xxviii A[nno d[omini]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1446
Extent:
1 volume

3646. Harley MS 5435

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5435
Title:
John de Burgh, Pupilla Oculi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-363v: John de Burgh, Pupilla Oculi; a reworking of the Oculus Sacerdotis of William of Pagula’; with a table of contents (ff. 1r-12v); and a prologue (ff. 13r-14v). The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1*recto: A (?) 17th-century note: ‘This MS. relates entirely to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3647. Harley MS 5436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5436
Title:
Origen, Sermon on St Mary Magdalen; Gulielmus Brito, Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistola ad Paulum et invicem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological works written in the 15th century. It also contains fragments from other manuscripts that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript. Among these are two previously unidentified leaves from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, which survives ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1451-1469
Extent:
1 volume

3648. Harley MS 5437

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5437
Title:
Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-96: Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis. Text omitted by the scribe on f. 90v was supplied by a late 14th-century reader on ff. 95v-96.14th- and 15th-century marginal notes. Decoration: Puzzle initial in blue and red with pen-flourishing in red and purple (f. 1r). Initials alte...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3649. Harley MS 5438

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5438
Title:
Florus, Epitome of Roman History; Cicero, Catilinarian Orations
Scope & Content:
Contents: pp. 1-163: Florus, Epitome of Roman History. pp. 165-173: Cicero, Catilinarian Orations, with a spurious response by Catiline. pp. 164, 174-78 are blank. Horizontal catchwords. Decoration: Partial white vine border with a large white vine initial in colours and gold (p. 1). 3 sma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3650. Harley MS 5439

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5439
Title:
Lactantius, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Divinae institutiones (The Divine Institutes), a theological work by the Christian Roman philosopher Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius (b. c. 250, d. c. 350). Contents: ff. 1r-196r: Lactantius, Divinae institutiones. f. 196v is blank. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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