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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2713
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2735
Title:: Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:: The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2767
Title:: Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3034
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de passione domini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Excerpts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies)books VI, VIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX, with added titles in the margins (ff. 9v-10r). For detailed contents, see Steinová 'Innovating Knowledge' online. ff. 11v-58r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3145
Title:: Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains anonymous sermons, and sermons that have be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3667
Title:: Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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 3941/2
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4751
Title:: A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5237
Title:: Boethius, De institutione musica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione musica (On the Principles of Music), imperfect (Book 1, 23-Book 5, 8) beginning at the chapter 23 of the first book: 'Hoc igitur modo per singular tetrachorda in generum proprietates partitio facta est', ending at the chapter 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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