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Project / Collection Harley Collection Place Belgium, Europe Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 2443

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2443
Title:
Book of Hours, fragmentary
Scope & Content:
A fragmentary Book of Hours, now lacking folios at the beginning, at the end, as well as within the manuscript, and consisting mainly of the Office of the Dead. Contents: f. 1r-v: The end of a litany, beginning ‘peccata mundi misere[re] nobis’. ff. 2r-70v: The Office of the Dead, now imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 2817

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2817
Title:
Book of Job; commentary on Priscian, Institutiones Grammaticae; Warner von Basel, Synodus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is composed of three originally separate parts. The first part (ff. 1v-32v) contains the Book of Job with prefatory material by St Jerome (d. 420), possibly made in the Southern Netherlands (modern Belgium). The second part (ff. 33r-48v) contains an anonymous gloss on Priscian ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume