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1. Harley MS 203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 203
Title:
Innocent III, De Officio Missae; Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Scope & Content:
Composite volume consisting of two booklets (ff. 1–28, 29–98). ff. 1r–26r: Innocent III, De Officio Missae (The Office of the Mass). ff. 26r–28v: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer, ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem'. ff. 29r–52v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Incarnatione Verbi ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 491

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 491
Title:
William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–2v: Two leaves from a Mass lectionary, probably written in Lotharingia, mid-11th-century (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)). ff. 3r–46v: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes). ff. 47r–48v: Two leaves from a mortuary roll for Turgot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Harley MS 628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 628
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 652
Title:
Homiliary; Lections from six lives of saints connected to St Augustine's abbey; Fragment from the homiliary attributed to Alan de Farfa
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, consists of a homiliary with 119 sermons for the period between Holy Saturday and the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The main structure of the homiliary derives from the reconstructed collection of Paul the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 863

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 863
Title:
Psalter ('The Leofric Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter (ff. 8r-123v) that was written by scribes who also produced manuscripts made for Leofric, bishop of Exeter (from 1046 to 1072 (see Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints (1991) no. 23). The manuscript also includes a 12th-century Kalendar with many later a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 1229

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

7. Harley MS 1246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1246
Title:
Homiliary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A table of content of the collection of sermons contained in this manuscript. ff. 2r-141r: A collection of 63 homilies mainly excerpted from the commentaries on the Four Gospels by the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church, arranged for the liturgical year, beginning with B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Harley MS 1918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1918
Title:
Homiliary with lectiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Homilia in Vigilia Paschalis, beginning: 'In Sancto Sabbato secundum Mattheum. Que luscecit in primam (sic) sabbati [...] Omelia Venerabilis Bede presbiteri, de eadem lectione. Vigilias nobis hujus sacratissime noctis', ending: 'qui vivit et reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Harley MS 2637

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2637
Title:
Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2790
Title:
The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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