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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3664
Title:: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-109v: Formulary for legal instruments relating to canon law, with examples referring to French clerics, officials and churches (e.g. 'Episcopus Ambianensis', 'ecclesie Arelatensis', 'Thesaurario Lemovicensis'), beginning: 'Processus super executione sententiæ late in causa pecu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3707
Title:: Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia peregrinationis Ierosolimitane (with a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis); Petrus Alphonsi, Contra Judaeos dialogi
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Ierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) by Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1050, d. 1130), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil and bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne. The work presents a history of the events of the First Crusade in four books, beginnin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3723
Title:: Collection of works by Géraud de Frachet, including the Cronica ex diversis hystoriis abreviata, Chronica ordinis fratrum praedicatorum, and De decem Sybillis
Scope & Content:: This 14th-century manuscript contains a hitherto unidentified collection of the works of the Dominican friar Géraud [Gérald or Gérard] de Frachet [Geraldus de Fracheto] (b. 1205, d. 1271), historian and hagiographer of the Dominican Order. Among other works, it features his universal chronicle, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3762
Title:: Glossed Isaiah; Prologue to Daniel; Glossed Daniel
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Ysai[ah]'. ff. 1v-112r: Glossed Isaiah. ff. 113r-113v: Prologue to Daniel. ff. 114v-162r: Glossed Daniel. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 163v: A list of Syrian kings, beginning with Seleucus I Nicator, and a list of Egyptian kings, b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3859
Title:: Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Welsh
Date Range:: Early 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3883
Title:: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Antiquitates iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities) by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100). Contents: 1r-306r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae, beginning: ‘Hystoriam scribere disponentibus non una nec eandem’. Decoration: Large initials in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3904
Title:: Peter Tudebode, Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere (The History of the Journey to Jerusalem). This is an eye-witness account of the First Crusade (1095-1099) by Peter Tudebode (fl. 1100), a priest from Poitou who accompanied the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles (b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1110
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3939
Title:: Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 49v: A practice sentence in English: 'Ryght worshypfull [crossed out]'; written in the (?) 16th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4005
Title:: Book of Numbers with glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Book of Numbers with glossa ordinaria.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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