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31. Harley MS 4984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4984
Title:
Collection of texts about St Martin of Tours: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini, Epistolae, Dialogi (books 1-3); Gregory of Tours, De Virtutibus Sancti Martini and Libri Octo Miraculorum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours (d. 397) by Sulpicius Severus (b. c. 363, d. c. 425) and Gregory of Tours (b. c. 538, d. 594). The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contempo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 5041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5041
Title:
A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

33. Harley MS 5300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5300
Title:
Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62). The manuscript was perhaps made at the same workshop and by the same scribe as Harley MS 4856, which contains a copy of Vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

34. Harley MS 5303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5303
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Epistulae; Sermones; Ars Poetica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), also known as Horace. Contents: ff. 1r-56v: Horace, Carmina; ff. 57r-84r: Horace, Epistulae; ff. 84r-121v: Horace, Sermones; ff. 122r-130r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 130v is blank....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

35. Royal MS 4 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 4 D II
Title:
Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1225
Extent:

A parchment codex

36. Royal MS 13 A XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:
Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

37. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v
Title:
Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents written by different hands including an inscription referring to the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preceded by a medieval pressmark. A seal with a ship at the bottom of the folio. ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels) with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

38. Sloane MS 278

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 278
Title:
Hugh of Fouilloy, Aviarium; a Bestiary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43v: Hugh of Fouilloy or Hugo de Folieto (b. c. 1100, d. c. 1172), prior of St.-Nicholas-de-Regny, Aviarium, or De avibus, consisting of 60 chapters in two sections: 37 chapters of mostly scriptural exegesis, drawing on the Bible and the Greek Physiologus. The first 11 chapt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

39. Sloane MS 1621

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1621
Title:
Antidotarium and medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory
Scope & Content:
An antidotarium and various medical recipes, with some prayers and texts on musical theory. Contents: ff. 1r-v: Psalms 18:2-15. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Celi enarrant gloriam'. The bottom half of the page is lost, with a loss of text from Psalms 18:8-10. Explicit: 'Domine adiutor meus et redemp'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

40. Sloane MS 1975

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1975
Title:
Medical and herbal miscellany
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v–7r: Table of contents. Preface, ‘In hoc continentur libri quatuor medicine ypocratis. platonis. apoliensis urbis. de diversis herbis. Sexti papiri. placiti. ex animalibus. et ex diversis avibus. Idem ex libris dioscoridis. ex herbis semininis. ut quis voluerit. si pro qua fuerit querere c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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