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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3452/1
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-237v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae (Ecclesiastical History), translated by Rufinus of Aquileia, imperfect, missing f. 1 (bound separately as Harley MS 3452/2). Decoration: 10 large white vine initials in colours and gold inhabited by birds, including a hoopo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3738
Title:: Bartholomaeus de S. Concordio, Summa Pisana
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-222r: Bartholomaeus de S. Concordio, Summa Pisana. ff. 222v-226v: Index. Written in Cortona in 1455: colophon, 'Consummatum fuit hoc opus in civitate Pisana anno domini MoCCCo30. die viii mensis decembris, tempore sanctissimi patris domini Benedicti papae xii. Atque scriptum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1455
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4842
Title:: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-87: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, imperfect, lacking part of Book 4, where 1 folio is ruled but nearly completely unwritten (f. 10). Written by Franciscus Caballus Montefortinas, 1464: his colophon 'Per me Fra[n]ciscum Caballum montefortinatem vigesima octav...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1464
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5371
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, featuring English saints and with the feast of Thomas Becket and his translation erased. ff. 7r-7v: A prayer for protection, beginning: 'Domine deus omnipotens pater et filius et spiritus sanctus da michi famulo tuo N. victoriam contra omnes inimicos meos'. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1020
Title:: Testimonia Sacræ Scripturæ quibus Catechesis constructa est
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume containing bible verses as part of a [Jesuit?] Catechesis, by Alardus Alardi, 1614.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1614
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3531
Title:: Giovanni Boccaccio, Corbaccio
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Boccaccio's Corbaccio (The Crow), written around April 1448, from a copy written by Boccaccio. Contents: ff. 2r-94r: Giovanni Boccaccio, Corbaccio.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1448
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4930
Title:: The Brut Chronicle
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1*r-1*f, 114r-114v: 2 leaves from an unidentified copy of Constantinus Africanus' Liber Pantegni, a translation of the Al-Kitāb al-Malakī by 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (d. 982), known in the Latin medieval west as Haly Abbas. ff. 1-111v : The Brut Chronicle. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6613
Title:: Lanterne of Light
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Lanterne of Light, imperfect; with occasional contemporary marginal notes. A Lollard text composed after the 1409 Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury. This is one of two manuscript copies of the text to survive: the other is Harley MS 2324 (see Fletch...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1409-c 1425
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1229
Title:: Missal
Scope & Content:: This Cistercian missal was written in England around 1200, possibly at the Cistercian abbey St Mary the Virgin at Waverley (Surrey): the abbey, founded in 1128, was the first Cistercian monastery in England. The missal’s size indicates that it was probably intended for use at the high altar. The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2805
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect. Decoration: Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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