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1. Harley MS 3883

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

2. Harley MS 3974

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3974
Title:
Aimoin of Fleury, Historia Francorum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) by Aimoin of Fleury (b. c. 960, d. c. 1010), a French chronicler and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. It is thought to have been produced for Henri I (b. 1127, d. 1181), Count of Champagne, since it was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1165-c 1170
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Harley MS 5251

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5251
Title:
Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 3904

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

5. Harley MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 59
Title:
Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 1334

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1334
Title:
Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Jewish Wars attributed to Hegesippus, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 491

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 491
Title:
William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–2v: Two leaves from a Mass lectionary, probably written in Lotharingia, mid-11th-century (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)). ff. 3r–46v: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes). ff. 47r–48v: Two leaves from a mortuary roll for Turgot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 225

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 225
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille), with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 105

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 105
Title:
Compendium of saints’ lives
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a compendium of saints’ lives related to Canterbury. A main part is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury and St Mildred including their lives, miracles and the translation of their relics written by Goscelin of St Bertin. It includes also Goscelin's Libellus contra Inanes S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 3771

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3771
Title:
Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione; Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1: ff. 2r-11r: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione (Chronology or tract on the duration of the world), beginning: 'Quantocumque tempore, in divinis legibus'. ff. 11r-145v: Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica, a chronicle about the Merovingian k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

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