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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 647, ff 17v-20r
Title:: Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Scope & Content:: Excerpts from Pliny, Natural History, Macrobius, Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis, and Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, books 8 and 6 (known as The Seven-Book Computus), also in the margins of ff. 16r-16v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1000
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 648
Title:: Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-206v: Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels for the liturgical year, including sermons from Hrabanus Maurus, Homiliae in euangelia et epistolas. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1*recto-1*verso: Leaf from a Continental liturgical manuscript with texts for the feas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 649
Title:: Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas; Homiliae Evangelii; In Tobiam; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 650
Title:: Thomas Ebendorfer, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-301r: Thomas Ebendorfer (b. 1388, d. 1464), Sermones dominicales. Decoration: Red initials. Marginal drawings of churches added in brown ink (ff. 59r, 60r, 153r)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica; list concerning ecclesiastical dioceses; Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich; Chronicle from the Creation to 1384; Series of English kings, from Alfred...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced in England. The first part (ff. 4-177) was produced in the third quarter of the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Reading (Berkshire). It contains a collection of chronicles as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter 12th century-4th quarter 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 1-184
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r–57v: Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), Bishop of Caesarea, Chronici Canones (Chronological Canons), translated by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), with his prologue; ending ‘Huc usque historiam scribit eusebius pamphili martiris contubermalis [sic]; cui nos ista subiecimus’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 185-191
Title:: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses, cities, churches and offices
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 185r–191v: Lists of ecclesiastical provinces, dioceses and their cities, the churches of Rome, offices for cardinals, cardinal deacons, (arch)bishops, and patriarchs. Decoration: Numerous initials in blue with red pen-flourishing. 1 small initial in red with violet pen-flourish...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651, ff 192-196
Title:: Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 192r–193v: Chronicle from Creation to 1384. ff. 193v–194r: Series of kings of England from Alfred to Richard II, continued up to Edward VI by a different hand, writing in Middle English (lower margin of f. 194r). f. 194v: Names of the kings of Britain and of the Anglo-Saxons in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 651

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 652
Title:: Homiliary; Lections from six lives of saints connected to St Augustine's abbey; Fragment from the homiliary attributed to Alan de Farfa
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, consists of a homiliary with 119 sermons for the period between Holy Saturday and the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The main structure of the homiliary derives from the reconstructed collection of Paul the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 653
Title:: Henry Bratton [Bracton], De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-212v: Henry Bratton [Bracton] (d. 1268), De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, imperfect at the end. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 1v-2r: A table of contents, added in the 14th century. f. 2v: Notes about marriages, issue and obits concerning nine fam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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