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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4996
Title:: Speculum humanae salvationis
Scope & Content:: This copy of the popular anonymous illustrated text known as the Speculum humanae salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) was probably made in Alsace or the Upper Rhine area in the mid-14th century. Contents: ff. 1-3v: list of contents, prohemium and prologue. ff. 4r-46v: Speculum humanae ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1350
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6501
Title:: Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-138r: Priscian [fl. 500], Institutiones Grammaticae II-III. Decoration: Large and small red initials throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 100
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r–8v: Calendar, including various English saints: Wulstan, Cuthbert and his translation, Edward, Dunstan, Aldhelm, Edmund, Etheldreda, Kenelm, Oswald, Cuthbert, Wulfran, translation of Wenefrede, and in red, translation of Swythune, Margaret, Mary Magdalene, Anne, translation of Edward, Gre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1607
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-189v: A Psalter. Preceded by a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) including saints linked to Northern France, such as Firmin (Amiens) in red and Honore (Amiens) and Angadrême (Beauvais), who also feature in the litany (ff. 180-184v) alongside Symphorien (Autun), Evroul (Normandy), Riquier (A...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 7
Title:: Langley cartulary
Scope & Content:: Cartulary of deeds, from the time of Henry III to Edward IV, relating to Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire, organized according to geographical divisions: ff. 1r–6r: The manor of Turkdean, Gloucestershire. ff. 10v–18v: Brightwell and Ew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-1483
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 179
Title:: Regulae grammaticales
Scope & Content:: f. 1v: Paper fragment pasted to the leaf, with a list of grammarians and their dates, attributing the text to William Heytesbury. ff. 2r–196v: Regulae grammaticales, ‘Omnia nomina latina terminantia …’. The passage beginning on f. 76v is recopied on an inserted paper leaf (f. 77), ‘Precianus di...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 181
Title:: Ars Notoria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three texts of the Ars Notoria, including a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as revealed by God to Solomon. Contents: ff. 1r-17v: Ars Memorativa, beginning: 'Yf ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1000
Title:: Medulla grammaticae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains an incomplete copy of the Medulla grammaticae, a 15th-century Latin-English dictionary. Several other manuscript copies of the Medulla grammaticae survive: British Library, Add MS 24640, Add MS 33534, Add MS 37789 (bound with the Promptorium parvulorum), Add MS 62080, H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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