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2181. 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

2182. Harley MS 2390

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2390
Title:
Scope & Content:
Medical Compendium; 15th cent. Latin and Middle English. Partly copy. Imperfect. The compendium contains texts relating to medicine and the regimen of health in Latin and Middle English, interspersed with collections of medical recipes (ff. 57v-58v, 59v-72, 75, 76-91v, 100v-102v, 107-108v, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2183. Harley MS 2683

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2683
Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico and Commentarii de Bello Civili: Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino, De Bello Africano, and De Bello Hispanico.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript includes Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100, d. 44 BC)'s Commentarii de Bello Gallico: his first-hand account of the Roman military campaigns in Gaul in seven books, supplemented with an eight book written by Aulus Hirtius (d. 43 BC), a legate of Caesar. The account is followed by Caesa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex.

2184. Harley MS 2632

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2632
Title:
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina; Epodi; Carmen saeculare
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the selected works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), commonly known as Horace. The texts feature extensive marginal commentary. Contents: f. 1r: Vita Horatii (Life of Horace), imperfect, with a number of added pen trials; ff. 2r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2185. Harley MS 2719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2719
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2186. Harley MS 2752

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2752
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius), a collection of 124 letters written by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65) towards the end of his life. Contents: ff. 1r-89r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae morales ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2187. Harley MS 3033

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3033
Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-124v: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), beginning: 'Reverentissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servuus servorum'; imperfect ending (book 5, chapter 46): 'quia tabescentem mentem sua pena sauceat, quam felic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2188. Harley MS 3048

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3048
Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-146v: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Homiliae XL in evangelia (Forty homilies on the Gospels), books 1 and 2, with capitula (ff. 1r-2r). Decoration: Numerous large (2-3 lines) initials in red. Rubrics in red display capitals. Initials occasionally highlighted in red. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2189. Harley MS 3150

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3150
Title:
Gilbert of Hoyland, Sermones in Canticum Salomonis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Sermones in Canticum Salomonis (Sermons on the Song of Songs), a collection of sermons written by Gilbert of Hoyland (d. 1172), abbot of Swineshead Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Lincolnshire. Gilbert wrote a total of 47 sermons on the biblical book, a continuation...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2190. Harley MS 3220

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3220
Title:
Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg, Compendium theologicae veritatis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-75r: Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg, Compendium theologicae veritatis, books 4-7; ending with the colophon: 'Finis adest metae, mercedem posco dietae / Quam nisi iam dederis, cras minus aptus eris'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 75v: Mnemonic verses in Latin on the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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