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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2803
Title:: Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:: First volume of a two-volume monumental Bible (the second volume is Harley MS 2804, Psalms to Acts 16:17, imperfect), containing the Latin Vulgate from Genesis to Job. Decoration: 1 large miniature in colours and gold of Jerome writing, before his preface (f. 1v). 19 very large historiated in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex; 301 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1797
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum (volume 1)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of a two-volume Missal of Sarum use; the second volume is Harley MS 1798: ff. 1r-235r: Temporale. ff. 235r-242v: Dedication of the Church. ff. 242v-244r: Blessings for the lessons of Matins (Benedictiones matutinales). ff. 246r-255v: Votive masses, imperfec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1405-c 1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1798
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum (volume 2)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume Missal of Sarum use; the first volume is Harley MS 1797. Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Psalter with litanies including the following saints: Swithun, Birinus, Affra, Edith, Nigasius, Audomar, Paternus, Patrick, Dunstan, Grimibald, Ragenfledis, Batild...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1405-c 1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2454
Title:: Commentaries on T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes commentaries on eight comedies of Plautus: ff. 1r-23r: Commentary on the Amphitryon, incipit: 'Ut vos in vostris pro introductione huius comedie que inscribitur Amphitrio notandum est quod [thebis] fuit quidam princeps.' This commentary is also included in Biblioteca Ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2507
Title:: M. Annaeus Lucanus, De bello civili
Scope & Content:: M. Annaeus Lucanus, De bello civili (also known as Pharsalia), incipit: '[B]ella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos'; prefaced by Lucan's epitaph, incipit: 'Corduba me genuit rapuit nero.' Includes numerous added commentaries in the margins. Decoration: Space left for large initials. 1 init...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2985
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, made in the Southern Netherlands for the English market. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, with the following English saints: David, Chad, Edward, Richard of Chichester, Guthlac, Alphege, John of Beverly, Aldelm, Augustine of Canterbury, Translation of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3032
Title:: Hesychius of Jerusalem, Commentary on Leviticus
Scope & Content:: Hesychius of Jerusalem, Commentary on Leviticus, with a title page 'In hoc corpori continentur in librum leviticum Isychii praesbyteri hierosolymorum libri numero VII incipit prohemium' (f. 1v) and a prologue (ff. 2r-4v), incipit: 'Venerabili diacono Euthichiano peccator Christi servus Isicius p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3303
Title:: Pius II (Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a copy of the second recension of the Pentalogus of Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini (future Pope Pius II), a tract divided in fives fictitious dialogues between the poet (Piccolomini), the king (Frederick IV, King of the Germans, from 1452 Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5054
Title:: The direct manner and order of Proceeding in Causes and Suytes depending in the high Court of Chancery; Plato, Apologia Socratis; William of Auxerre, Summa aurea; and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of five parts that were produced separately. The first three parts (ff. 1-30; ff. 31-54; ff. 55-54) were written in England in the 17th century. The fourth part (ff. 79-200) was written in England in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The fifth part (ff. 202-309) was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3095
Title:: Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:: The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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