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1951. Harley MS 3376

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3376
Title:
Latin-Old English Glossary
Scope & Content:
Contents: Part of an alphabetical glossary of rare Latin words from a- to fu-, with some words beginning with z inserted in the entry for the letter d . Most words are glossed in Latin, with about one third having Old English glosses as explanations of the Latin glosses and a few words having ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
975-1050
Extent:
A parchment codex consisting of 94 folios

1952. Harley MS 3432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3432
Title:
The Orcherd of Syon (Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena's Il Dialogo)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Orcherd of Syon, a Middle English translation of Catherine of Siena (b. 1347, d. 1380)'s Il Dialogo (1378), a treatise with moral instructions that she attributed to divine revelation. This is one of the three surviving full-text copies of the English translation. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

1953. Harley MS 3441

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3441
Title:
Justinian, Codex
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most import...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1954. Harley MS 3509

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3509
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1955. Harley MS 3534

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3534
Title:
Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and marginal glosses. It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing Horace’ (1996), p. 107). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

1956. Harley MS 3571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3571
Title:
A Life of the Virgin Mary and Christ, in Italian
Scope & Content:
This manuscript features an Italian text that can be described as a vita of the Virgin Mary and Christ, although it also highlights the role of St Joseph after Christ's death. The narrative starts with the Virgin's birth and childhood and ends with her assumption into heaven. Perhaps another ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

1957. Harley MS 3661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3661
Title:
The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1482
Extent:
1 volume

1958. Harley MS 3667

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

1959. Harley MS 3680

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3680
Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae; a tract on the conversion of Kent; Catalogus sanctorum qui in Anglia requiescunt, imperfect
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), the Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1960. Harley MS 3707

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

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