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1. Arundel MS 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 157
Title:
The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is an early example of a Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary attached (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), p. 201 (no. 2). p. 201). The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but probably has a connection with Oxford since its Calendar contains three feasts of St Fri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 129
Title:
Richard Simonds (d. 1611), collection of notes on logic, philosophy and rhetoric, with a few poems and transcripts of orations and letters
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of Latin study notes on logic, rhetoric and philsophy, with a few poems and transcripts of orations and letters written in Latin, compiled by Richard Simonds (d. 1611), grandfather of the antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Most of the sources cited in the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 1066

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1066
Title:
Privileges of the University of Oxford granted by the kings of England from Edward III to Edward IV
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Privileges of the University of Oxford granted by the kings of England from Edward III to Edward IV, some left incomplete. Decoration: 1 inhabited initial in red on a green background and flower motifs. 1 full-frame decorated with blue and red flowers, thistles, includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2813
Title:
Bible, including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names, with a missal between Psalms and Proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-504r: Bible, imperfect at the beginning and lacking the opening of Genesis; including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 485r-504r); and a booklet (ff. 227r-236v) containing texts for the liturgy between that has been inserted between the Psalms and Proverbs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2905

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2905
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript includes a calendar with Augustinian elements, followed by the Psalms, Canticles and Hymns. ff. 1r-6v: A calendar with the zodiac signs. ff. 7r-190v: Psalms, imperfect at the beginning, Psalm 1 and the first verses of Psalm 2 are lacking; beginning: '[ip]sorum. Qui ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 3524

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3524
Title:
Commentaries on the New Testament; list of biblical books with chapter numbers; table of works by St Augustine and St Jerome; table of liturgical feasts with biblical lections; theological excerpts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-130v: Commentaries on the New Testament. f. 130v: A list of books from the Vulgate with their numbers of chapters written above. f. 131r: A table listing works attributed to Augustine of Hippo and Jerome. ff. 131r-133v: A table with biblical lections for feasts from the T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 3742

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3742
Title:
Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae Ducum; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; John of Hildesheim, Historia Trium Regum; 'Liber qui Regius dicitur'; Pierre d'Ailly, collected astronomical works; John Norfolk, In artem progressionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57v: Dudo of Saint-Quentin, De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae Ducum; imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first leaf). ff. 57v-69r: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; redaction A, books 5-7, imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first two leaves). ff. 7...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1445
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3820

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3820
Title:
William of Rimington, Stimulus peccatoris; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Lamentatio in passionem domini and Meditationes; Pseudo-Augustine, Meditationes; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
One of the two surviving manuscripts from a reclusory at the Carthusian priory at Sheen in Surrey, now Richmond. The other manuscript is Oxford, Magdalen College, MS lat. 77 ('Revelationes beate Brigitte libri duo'). Contents: f. 2*verso: A table of contents (‘Contenta’). ff. 1r-6r: A treat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 5367

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5367
Title:
Bible, without the Psalms
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-569v: Bible, without the Psalms, imperfect; ending in the middle of Acts of the Apostles. Lacking Revelation. The manuscript contains various additions: Occasional marginal annotations in English hands, 14th century. ff. 1*v, 274v-275v, 571-574: Added list for Sunday readin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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