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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 46
Title:: Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-v: Capitula referring to quires and folios of the manuscript. ff. 3r-4r: Preface on the Gospels, excerpted from Genesis, beginning: ‘Fecit deus duo magna luminaria’ ff. 4r-6v: Glossed prologue to the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: ‘Mattheus ex iudea sicut in ordine’; gloss on the pro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 59
Title:: Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 82
Title:: Register of Reading Abbey; Usuard, Martyrology; 'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains three parts that were separately produced: I: ff. 1r–3v (Register); II: ff. 4r–34v (Martyrology); III: ff. 35r–104v (Voyage d'outre mer). The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. The first pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 101
Title:: Origen, Commentarium in Canticum Canticorum; Hrabanus Maurus, De institutione clericorum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. It was produced in a stylistic period of manuscript production at the abbey that has been dated to between 1150 and 1180. Many of the abbey’s manuscripts from this period contain patristic writings, which is ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1180
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 104
Title:: Stephen Langton, Expositio Libri Duodecim Prophetarum; Gregory the Great, De Cura Pastorali; Richard of St-Victor, Allegoriae Novi Testamenti and De Oratione Dominica; Innocent III, De Missarum Mysteriis and Sermo VI
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century (before c. 1225 and after 1206 or 1215) was probably written for a clerical audience since it contains works that would have helped priests in explaining biblical texts to the laity and instructed them in their duties of pastoral c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 105
Title:: Compendium of saints’ lives
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a compendium of saints’ lives related to Canterbury. A main part is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury and St Mildred including their lives, miracles and the translation of their relics written by Goscelin of St Bertin. It includes also Goscelin's Libellus contra Inanes S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 107
Title:: Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect; ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions; f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’; f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 110
Title:: Glossed copy of Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; Versus ad coniugem; Isidore, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis; two leaves from a gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22v: Prosper, Epigrammata ex sententiis S. Augustini; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 526]. ff. 22v-24v: ? Prosper or Paulinus of Nola, Poema coniugis ad uxorem; with Old English glosses [Clavis Patrum Latinorum, no. 531]. ff. 25r-53r: Isidore of Sevill...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 975-1050
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 225
Title:: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille), with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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