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1. Cotton MS Faustina A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A IX
Title:
Homilies, including Ælfric, Catholic Homilies (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A 16th-century title and notes. f. 1v: A 16th-century copy of the beginning of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, incipit 'Iohannes se godspellere cwaeð...' ff. 2r-11r: A continuation of a sermon for the second Sunday after Epiphany, from the second series of Æl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 487
Title:
A Psalter with the Hours of the Holy Spirit
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar with astronomical information; featuring additional saints added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. ff. 7r-177r: The Psalter. ff. 177r-193v: Canticles, hymns and Athanasian creed (Quicumque Vult). ff. 193v-200v: Litany and prayers; featuring St Bridget ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 612

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 612
Title:
Birgitta of Sweden, Liber Celestis Revelacionum, with tracts and documents relating to her canonisation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts from and about St Birgitta of Sweden, divided into 14 books, and copied by Thomas Colyngbourn for the Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin and St Bridget of Syon [Syon Abbey], Isleworth, Middlesex. It is one of three surviving Latin m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1435 and 1457
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 629

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 629
Title:
John Lydgate, Life of Our Lady
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: A table of contents with an introduction, beginning: 'This booke was compilid by Iohn lidgate monke of Bury at the excitacion and steryng of oure worshipful Prince kyng herry the fifthe. in the honour glorie and worshippe of the birthe of the most glorious maide wife and m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 1118

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1118
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-218v, 220v-289r: Registrum brevium. Including a list of contents (ff. 1r-10r); beginning on f. 13r: 'Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie Dux Aquitanie Ballivis suis Lincolniensis salutem precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis Ade de Cerleton. de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1785
Title:
Astronomical texts and tables; John Somer, Kalendarium; the Statute of the Forest of Waltham; an extract from Palladius Rutilis, De Agricultura; a treatise by Nicholas Bollarde on the ordering of trees; notes on agricultural matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An astronomical table with, for each month of a year, 4-9 columns and 31 rows with Arabic numbers in brown or red ink. f. 3v: A Middle English astronomical text for calculating the epact, beginning: 'Yf thou wilt perfitly and brefly know the tru Age of the mone . whan so ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2336

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2349

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2349
Title:
Collection of canon law texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: 'Constitutiones Oxonie'. ff. 22v-23r: 'Constitutiones Domini Ottobonis super Decimis et Nutrimentis animalium'. ff. 23r-54r: 'Constitutiones Ottobonis, miseratione Divina, Sancti Adriani Diaconi Cardinalis, Apostolice Sedis Legati; ad perpetuam Rei memoriam'. ff. 54r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1341-c 1350
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2787

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2787
Title:
Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Missal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation; damaged and beginning and ending imperfectly; beginning with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) with numerous English saints, including, in red: Wulstani, Edwardi, Cuthberte, Ricardi, Georgii, Dunstani, Aldelmi, translation of Edmund, Barn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1410
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 2813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2813
Title:
Bible, including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names, with a missal between Psalms and Proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-504r: Bible, imperfect at the beginning and lacking the opening of Genesis; including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 485r-504r); and a booklet (ff. 227r-236v) containing texts for the liturgy between that has been inserted between the Psalms and Proverbs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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