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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 3939
Title:: Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 49v: A practice sentence in English: 'Ryght worshypfull [crossed out]'; written in the (?) 16th century.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3996
Title:: Nicolas de Nicolay, Navigation de la Mer
Scope & Content:: An account of James V’s navigation round Scotland in 1540 written by Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83), royal geographer and lord of Arfeuille et Bel-Air. Based upon the pilot book of James’ navigator, Alexander Lindsay. A presentation copy for Cardinal Charles de Lorraine (1524-74). De Nicolay would...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1547-1566
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4001
Title:: Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-144v: Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France, compiled from the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais and sometimes attributed to a monk of Saint-Denis, beginning: '[L]a cause afait ceste compilacion'. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Marginal ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4005
Title:: Book of Numbers with glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Book of Numbers with glossa ordinaria.
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 4006
Title:: Books of the Minor Prophets (Zephaniah, Haggai, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zechariah, Malachi) with glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-58r: The Books of the Minor Prophets (Zephaniah, Haggai, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zechariah, Malachi) with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1r: An inscription followed by an erasure: 'Sophonias […]'; written in the late 12th or early 13th century. Decoratio...
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 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 4132
Title:: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-109v: Petrus Comestor, Historia scholastica; heavily annotated by various later hands. Decoration: Several puzzle initials in red and blue with penwork decoration. Numerous simple initials in red or blue, frequently with penwork decoration in the alternate colour. Running he...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4148
Title:: Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-243r: Lez droix et lez establissemenz de Normendie (A treatise on the rights and laws of Normandy in verse). Decoration: 3 large puzzle initials in blue and gold with extensions in the same colours (ff. 1r, 5r, 11r). Smaller initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Ca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4154
Title:: Collection of theological sayings
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1r-68v: Theological compendium, consisting of theological sayings, beginning with: 'Credendum est esse unum aliquid quod est quicquid alius est'; ending with: 'Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes'. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r (upper margin): 'Anselmi, Sola sap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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