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2311. Harley MS 2827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2827
Title:
Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-458r: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 426r-458r). The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 459r-460v: Lections for liturgical feasts; added in the 14th century. ff. 460v-461r: A text on the life of Secundus the Silent (fl. 2nd century), beg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2312. Harley MS 3208

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3208
Title:
Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler, in Spanish translation
Scope & Content:
An elegant copy of the Spanish translation of an excerpt from Plutarch's treatise To an Uneducated Ruler (Ad principem ineruditum), possibly presented to a Spanish king (either Philip II or one of his successors, Philip III or Philip IV). ff. 1r-11v: Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler, in Spanish...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Spanish
Date Range:
1580-1640
Extent:
1 volume

2313. Harley MS 3242

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3242
Title:
Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita; Paul the Deacon, Historia romana
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-116v: Cassiodorus, Historia tripartita. Each book begins with a capitula list. ff. 117r-247v: Paul the Deacon [but here attributed to Eutropius), Historia romana. Decoration: Large initials in red and green with red pen-flourishing and often foliate decoration (ff. 1r, 18r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1519-1520
Extent:

1 volume

2314. Harley MS 5110

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5110
Title:
Composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and orations
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama, orations and other texts in various hands. Cited in the Index of English Literary Manuscripts as the 'Harley Satires MS'. ff. 1r–3v: A Latin oration given at Merton College, Oxford, entitled ‘In collegio Merton Oxon. […], 16 October 1725. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

2315. Harley MS 2790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2790
Title:
The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2316. Harley MS 636

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 636
Title:
John of Canterbury, Polistorie del Eglise de Christ de Canterbury
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving complete copy of the Polistorie del Eglise de Christ de Canterbury, written by John, a Benedictine monk at Christ Church, Canterbury, at the request of his 'cher amy Johan' (dear friend John) in 1314. The work is an Anglo-Norman chronicle (with rubrics...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2317. Harley MS 3083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3083
Title:
St Ambrose, Epistulae, De Obitu Theodosii and De Nabuthe Jezraelita
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves most of St Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397)'s Epistulae (Letters). It also includes two other works by Ambrose: De Obitu Theodosii (On the Death of Theodosius I) and De Nabuthe Jezraelita (On Naboth the Jezreelite). The manuscript may initially have been part of a larger volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2318. Harley MS 3404

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3404
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale puerorum, with commentary by Jonas Suessionensis
Scope & Content:
One of the most popular medieval grammatical manuals of the Middle Ages was the Doctrinale puerorum written in verses by Alexandre of Villedieu in the 13th century, and commented on by several medieval authors. This 14th-century copy contains the Doctrinale with commentaries by the early-14th-ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2319. Harley MS 7182

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7182
Title:
Ptolemy, Geographia, translated by Manuel Chrysoloras and Jacopo d'Angelo
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Geographia (Geography), an atlas and treatise on cartography originally written by the Greek mathematician and astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (b. c. 100, d. c. 170), in a Latin translation by the Renaissance humanists Manuel Chrysoloras (b. c. 135...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2320. Harley MS 149

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 149
Title:
Dives et Pauper; Jacques Legrand, The Book of Good Manners; Cena domini; The Gospel of Nichodemus; Miracles of Christ; Legend of the Vernicle; A tretyse betwene Saynt Petre and Symon Magus; The Obyte of Pylat; The decollacyoun of Saynt Petre and Saynt Poule; Signs before Doomsday
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-182v: Dives et Pauper, imperfect at the beginning. ff. 183-252r: Jacques Legrand (Jacobus Magnus), The Book of Good Manners. ff. 252v-255v: A Middle English treatise entitled Cena domini. ff. 255r-263r: The Gospel of Nicodemus in Middle English. ff. 263r-279r: Miracles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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