Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 106
Title:: Collection of theological texts
Scope & Content:: A theological collection of 157 texts, beginning with three tables of contents (ff. 2*r-3*v, 4*v-5*v), followed by short texts and extracts from authors including Augustine, Bede, Jerome, Hugh of St Vitor, Robert Grosseteste, and several anonymous writers, including a lecture on tithes (ff. 1r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 107
Title:: Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect; ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions; f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’; f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 108
Title:: Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi, an account of an expedition against Egypt, a letter from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Pope Innocent III, the Navigatio S. Brendani, extracts from the Speculum Historiale, and a chronicle of the archbishops of York
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains: f. 1r: Title page with post-1600 title: ‘Liber Turpini Archiepiscopi Remensis De gestis Karoli et pugna inter Rotholand et Gigantem Feracutum et morte eiusdem’. f. 2r: Title page with post-1600 label: ‘Volumen sive Tomus 80’. f. 3v: Table of contents, with heading: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis; two leaves from a gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]. ff. 22v-24v: ? Prosper or Paulinus of Nola, Poema coniugis ad uxorem; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 531]. ff. 25r-53r: Isidore of Sevill...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 975-1050
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 1r-1v, 56r-56v
Title:: Fragment of a gradual
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 110, ff. 1 and 56 contain fragments of a gradual with musical notation made in the mid-eleventh century, possibly at the Old Minster, Winchester (Bell, Music (2001), p. 59). The gradual appears to have been trimmed from its original dimensions to form endleaves for Harley MS 110, ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: mid-11th century
Extent:: 2 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 2r-55v
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]; Prosper, Pseudo-Prosper, or Paulinus, Poema coniugis ad uxorem [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no.531]; Isidore, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 1203]
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a group of patristic texts which have been glossed in both Latin and Old English. Most of the glosses seem to be contemporary, with a few eleventh-century glosses (Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 304). The style of the initials suggest that the manuscript was written at Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 10th century
Extent:: 53 parchment folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110, ff 56r-56v
Title:: Fragment of a gradual
Scope & Content:: Harley MS 110, ff. 1 and 56 contain fragments of a gradual with musical notation made in the mid-eleventh century, possibly at the Old Minster, Winchester (Bell, Music (2001), p. 59). The graudal appears to have been trimmed from its original dimensions to form end leaves for Harley MS 110, ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: mid-11th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 112
Title:: Cartulary of Sawley Abbey
Scope & Content:: Cartulary of Sawley Abbey, containing copies of baronial, privat, and occasional episcopal charters and deeds, arranged topographically in 12 sections by titles (titluli) or presses (casae). Miscellaneous additions throughout and at the end, ff. 188–198. ff. 1*–3*: Table of contents and inscrip...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1333-c 1350
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 114
Title:: Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle of England in French verse to the beginning of the reign of Edward I (1307)
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–47v: Pierre de Langtoft, Chronicle: opening with a French translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, De gestis Britonum, ‘Sermo de bruto fit sub dictamine tuto. Culpa datur petro deficiente metro. Deus le tut pussant ke cel et terre creayt …’ ff. 48r–121r: Continuation of Chronicle: Anglo-Saxo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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