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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3895
Title:: Compilation of saints lives with devotions to saints
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript predominantly contains the lives of the martyrs St Thomas of Canterbury, St Pelagia of Antioch, St Eustace, St Katherine of Alexandria, and the confessor St Aignan, Bishop of Orléans. It also includes hymns and prayers, a theological tract, and a commentary on the So...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3904
Title:: Peter Tudebode, Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere (The History of the Journey to Jerusalem). This is an eye-witness account of the First Crusade (1095-1099) by Peter Tudebode (fl. 1100), a priest from Poitou who accompanied the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles (b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1110
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3908
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae; Lessons on the Gospel of St Luke; Mass and Office for the feast of St. Mildreth; Historia de Sancta Mildretha in music; Textus translationis Mildrethe; John of Bridlington, Prophetia; Prophecies of Merlin
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists mainly of texts written in the 1st half of the 12th century (ff. 1r-100r), and it also includes two added texts written in the 14th century (ff. 101r-117v). ff. 1r-35r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae, (the Life of St Mildreth), with a prolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century-14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3974
Title:: Aimoin of Fleury, Historia Francorum
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) by Aimoin of Fleury (b. c. 960, d. c. 1010), a French chronicler and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. It is thought to have been produced for Henri I (b. 1127, d. 1181), Count of Champagne, since it was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1165-c 1170
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4070
Title:: Psalter in Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin verses at the beginning of each stanza. Contents: ff. 2r-123v: The Book of Psalms in verse, with a prologue, beginning ‘Ces [ver]s sunt de salu de[l] [ri]che rei ihesu nostre duz Avue’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4751
Title:: A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4772
Title:: The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
Scope & Content:: This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4773
Title:: The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:: This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4831
Title:: Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of works written by Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), including letters, Carmina varia (poems) and the first ten Natalicia (a collection of poems dedicated to anniversary of St Felix of Nola). The numbers following the prose-epistles, which have not...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4904
Title:: St Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Enarrationes in Psalmos (Commentary on the Psalms) by the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 2nd half of the 12th century, perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Sancta Maria de Rupe (St Mary of the Rock) at Maltby in South Yorks...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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