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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2939
Title:: Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
Scope & Content:: This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2961
Title:: Leofric Collectar
Scope & Content:: The Leofric Collectar, comprising a collectar, a hymnal and a series of sequences for a community of secular canons. The manuscript is imperfect: it ends mid-sequence and appears to be missing its final quire. Judging by its script, it was made at Exeter during the episcopate of Bishop Leofric ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1050-1072
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2965
Title:: The Book of Nunnaminster
Scope & Content:: A decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels. The text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 7653 (the Harley Prayerbo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to 1st quarter of 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2975
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar in Latin. f. 2r: A circular diagram with instruction for finding Sunday Letters and Golden Numbers, starting in the year 1500. f. 2v: 'Tabula duodecum signorum zodyaci'. ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including feasts for St Ludger, Bishop of Münster in Westph...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2991
Title:: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions
Scope & Content:: This manuscript and Harley MS 2992 are companion volumes; Harley MS 2992, which is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-138v: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions. It includes musical notation, in the form of neumes, and was made N...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2992
Title:: Gregorian sacramentary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript and Harley MS 2991 are companion volumes. This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-108v: Gregorian sacramentary. Decoration: Large initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Highlights in red between ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century-Early 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3008
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles and martyrdom of St Andrew (Passio Altera Sancti Andreae apostoli). Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the Passio that have be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3009
Title:: Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum Progenitorum Iesu Christ
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the last two of the four books of the Dialogues (Dialogi) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3012
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1r-32v: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae (The measure of the Soul), preceded by the Retractationes (Retractions), Book 1, chapter 8 (ff. 1r-v). ff. 33r-70v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (Easter Song). ff. 71r-84v: Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim (Commentary on the Apocalypse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3013
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, Epistola ad Ehfridum; Aldhelm of Sherborne, De laudibus virginitatis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two didactic works composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury; and the De laudibus virginitatis (In Praise of Virginity), a work in 60 chapters extolling v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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