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1. Add MS 35283

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 35283
Title:
Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:
A bilingual Psalter, with canticles and liturgical texts; the Latin text is in the left column with a parallel Anglo-Norman French text in the right column; the translation is related to the Anglo-Norman version in the 'Oxford' Psalter: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 320 (see Short and others, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Arundel MS 94

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 94
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). The other volume has not survived, but would have contained books 1-14 of Josephus’s work. This manuscript contains the last books, 15-20, and include...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius B I

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius B I
Title:
The Life and Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant full-text translations of the Revelations of the mystic and saint Birgitta of Sweden (b. 1303, d. 1373), known as the Liber celestis revelationum (Heavenly Book of Revelations). Another full copy of the text now survives as Cotton MS Julius F II. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Otho C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho C V
Title:
Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (part of the 'The Otho-Corpus Gospels') (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This codex contains part of an Insular Gospel-book which was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Contents: ff. 1r–64v: The Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark (imperfect). The Gospels of St Luke and St John are contained in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 197B and possibly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 7th century-1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 1022

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1022
Title:
A miscellany of religious prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A tract on the nativity of John the Baptist (Latin). f. 1v: A short account of a ‘John the Hermit’ (Latin). f. 1v: The nun Eulalia whom the Virgin Mary asked to say the Ave more slowly (Latin). f. 1v: A priest who saw a woman clad in demons, translated from Caesarius of He...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1425
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 1260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1260
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (The Percy Hours)
Scope & Content:
This prayer book contains items that are typical of a Book of Hours, including a Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Seven Penitential Psalms, and a Litany of Saints. However, its larger part comprises prayers in Latin and Anglo Norman that are not organised according to the canonical hours. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1370
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 1503

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1503
Title:
Collection of coats of arms of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry, and kings of the world
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-92v: Collection of coats of arms (16 per page) of English kings, earls, nobility and gentry; and kings of the world, among whom are many attributed arms such as those of Prester John. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Coats of arms and ownership inscriptions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 1663

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1663
Title:
Book of Hours (Use of York)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-46v: The Hours of the Virgin Mary. ff. 47r-58v: The Seven Penitential Psalms. ff. 58v-69r: Litany of Saints, followed by several prayers. ff. 70r-122r: Office of the Dead, featuring musical notation: black neumes on four-line red staves. ff. 123r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2807

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2807
Title:
Bible (without the Psalms)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-336r: Bible (without the Psalms); The Prologue to Esdras (f. 129v) is immediately followed by Proverbs, Esdras begins on f. 240 after another prologue on f. 239v (following Esther). Numbered subdivisions in the Gospels. The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 1r-2r: Post...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2882

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2882
Title:
Prayerbook
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-61r: A collection of prayers, in both prose and verse, written in several different hands, now imperfect (folios lacking between f. 35 and 36 and between ff. 55 and 56). Includes prayers to: the Virgin Mary, St John, John the Baptist, St Peter, St Paul, the Trinity, St Stephen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century - 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

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