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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2992
Title:: Gregorian sacramentary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript and Harley MS 2991 are companion volumes. This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-108v: Gregorian sacramentary. Decoration: Large initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Highlights in red between ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century-Early 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3008
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles and martyrdom of St Andrew (Passio Altera Sancti Andreae apostoli). Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the Passio that have be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3009
Title:: Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum Progenitorum Iesu Christ
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the last two of the four books of the Dialogues (Dialogi) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3012
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1r-32v: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae (The measure of the Soul), preceded by the Retractationes (Retractions), Book 1, chapter 8 (ff. 1r-v). ff. 33r-70v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (Easter Song). ff. 71r-84v: Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim (Commentary on the Apocalypse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3013
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, Epistola ad Ehfridum; Aldhelm of Sherborne, De laudibus virginitatis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two didactic works composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709): the Epistola ad Ehfridum (Letter to Heahfrith), a letter promoting the schools of Theodore and Adrian of Canterbury; and the De laudibus virginitatis (In Praise of Virginity), a work in 60 chapters extolling v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020
Title:: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia; Bede, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi; Vite Sanctorum; Paul the Deacon of Naples translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus including a fragment of a Troper; a sequence and responsory with musical notation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three main parts gathered together at an early period (see Provenance), it includes a fragment of a Troper (f. 35r). Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, 1:13, Homilia in natali Benedicti Abbatis (Homily on Benedict Biscop), beginning: 'Sermo Beati bed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3023
Title:: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Peristephanon and part of Hamartigenia; anonymous explanation of poetic metres and letter on the death of Sigon, abbot of Saint-Florent de Saumur; letters by and from Berengar of Tours and Fulbert of Chartres
Scope & Content:: This manuscript primarily contains works by the Latin Christian poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day), Peristephanon (Crowns of the Martyrs), and the final part of Hamartigenia (The Origin of Sin), all glossed and annotated in the 12th century....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3026
Title:: Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt, Super Apocalypsim expositio
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Super Apocalypsim expositio (Exposition on the Apocalypse) spuriously attributed to Haimo of Halberstadt (d. 853). Most of the text was written in the 10th century (ff. 3r-147v); the beginning and the end of the text were added later, in the early 12th century (ff. 1v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3027
Title:: Augustine of Hippo (and Pseudo-Augustine), various theological works; Prosper of Aquitaine, Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Vincentianarum; sermon collection with texts by Pseudo-Augustine, Pseudo-Eusebius and Origen; Paulinus of Aquileia, Liber Exhortationis ad Quendam Comitem
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century English manuscript contains a collection of sermons, and theological writings by and spuriously attributed to the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), and his disciple Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, c. 455). The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produced ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3030
Title:: Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two commentaries on the Pauline epistles written respectively by Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254) and St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). This volume was produced in the 2nd half of the 11th century in Western Germany, perhaps Paderborn. Fragments from a 9th-century text of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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