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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3246
Title:: Thomas Gallus of Vercelli, Explanatio super Canticum canticorum;Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Augustini
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 2r-41r) contains the commentary on the Song of Songs by Thomas Gallus of Vercelli [of Saint-Victor] (b. c. 1200, d. 1246). The second part (ff. 42r-61v) contains the commentary on the Rule of St Augustine spuriously at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3395
Title:: Commissione of the doge Francesco Donato to Giovanni Maria Contarini as podestà and captain of Koper
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is an illustrated commissione issued to Giovanni Maria Contarini by the Venetian doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545-1553) in 1551. The text concerns Contarini's duties and rights as podestà (civil administrator) and captain of the city of Koper, near Trieste (once part of Venetian Is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1551
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 654
Title:: Eutropius, Historiae Romanae; Orosius, Historiae adversus paganos
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-20v: Eutropius, Historiae Romanae. ff. 20v-31r: Additions of Paul the Deacon to Eutropius. ff. 31v: List of Roman emperors. ff. 31v-96r: Orosius, Historiae contra paganos. The manuscript contains a few additions: Annotations in several 16th and 17th-century hands throu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3036
Title:: Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-3v: Numerous added texts and excerpts, written by several 12th-century hands, beginning with Alcuin (d. 804), Ad Pueros Sancti Martini de confessione peccatorum (To the young men of Saint-Martin on the confession of sins), and including a short account of the life of Hugh, abbot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3925
Title:: Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains De Inventione (On Invention), a handbook for orators written by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), and Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius), a book on rhetoric formerly attributed to him. Contents: ff. 1r-94r: Cicero, De Inventio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1431
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 548
Title:: A collection of legal and administrative texts; a short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter; measuring tables; Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd; a glossary of technical terms; several formularies; a list of English kings
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-18r: A miscellaneous collection of legal and administrative texts. ff. 18r-19r: A short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter. ff. 19v-20v: Measuring tables. ff. 21r-27v: Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd. ff. 27v-29r: A glossary of technical t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 776
Title:: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana (Book 2); Tractatus de Archiepiscopis et Episcopis Angliae (Book 3); letter of Pope Gregory X to the bishops of London and Ely; The Siege of Caerlaverock
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-31v: Bartholomew de Cotton, Historia Anglicana scilicet Liber secundus de Regibus, Anglis, Dacis, et Normannis; according to an introduction ‘Extracted out a auncient MS [Cotton MS Nero C V] written about the latter ende of the yeere 1298’. ff. 32r-45v: Tractatus de Archiepis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2834
Title:: The second volume of a Vulgate in two parts, containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the second volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation, with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents, and ends with the apocryphal Epistle to the L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 281
Title:: Miscellany of musical treatises compiled by Guy of Saint-Denis
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–2v: Added notes on the tones (16th-century). ff. 3r: Added diagram of Guidonian hand. f. 4r–v: Added table of contents. ff. 5r–16v: Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus. ff. 16v–24v: Guido of Arezzo, Trocaicus. ff. 25r–34r: Pseudo-Odo (here attributed to Guido of Arezzo), Dialogus de musica. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2735
Title:: Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:: The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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