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1. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

2. Harley MS 2653

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2653
Title:
Ianua
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the earliest surviving copy of the popular school text known as Ianua (The Door). Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Ianua.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 6296

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6296
Title:
Porphyrius
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:
2 items

4. Harley MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 745
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1-146v: Psalter, including Canticles, the Penitential Psalms and litany. Decoration: 1 large historiated initial in colours on gold at the beginning of Psalm 1 (f. 7r). 9 other large initials in gold on a blue and pink or blue and brown ground with foliate motifs in white, at the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2842

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2842
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. ff. 1-292v: Psalter, imperfect, beginning in Psalm 16. Decoration: 9 historiated initials in colours and gold with partial bar borders at the beginning of Psalms 26, 38, 51, 52, 68, 80, 97, 101, and 109, of David pointing to his eye (x 2), David and a devil, a fool, David pray...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 4719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4719
Title:
Hagiographies
Scope & Content:
A collection of hagiographies, mostly of early saints, particularly those of Egypt and the Middle East. Contents: f. 1r: doodles of faces and erased ownership inscriptions. ff. 1v-2r: table of contents. ff. 3r-39v: Vitae monachorum aegyptiorum (Lives of the Egyptian Monks). ff. 40r-65v: Pal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 5284/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5284/1
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–101v: Fragments of a noted breviary. Decoration: Major sections open with initials in colours (ff. 24v, 48v, 66v, 72r, 83v); other divisions marks with two-line initials alternating in red and blue with penwork in the opposite colour; staves in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 5305

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5305
Title:
Benedictional
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-26r: Benedictiones episcopales per totum annum. ff, 26v-33v: Consecratio olei. ff. 34r-49: Consecrationes et ordinationes electi in episcopatum'. Musical notation, on four-line red staves (ff. 36r, 38v, 39r-v, 41v-42r, 44v, 45v). Decoration: Small miniature in colours and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 5334

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

10. Harley MS 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 77
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-222v: Registrum brevium.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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