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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 549
Title:: Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 603
Title:: Psalter (the 'Harley Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Psalter, known as the 'Harley Psalter', imperfect. The illustration of the manuscript is copied from the Utrecht Psalter (Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 32). The text is mostly the Roman version, except Psalms 100-105 which are Gallican (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, The Bosworth P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 612
Title:: Birgitta of Sweden, Liber Celestis Revelacionum, with tracts and documents relating to her canonisation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts from and about St Birgitta of Sweden, divided into 14 books, and copied by Thomas Colyngbourn for the Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin and St Bridget of Syon [Syon Abbey], Isleworth, Middlesex. It is one of three surviving Latin m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1435 and 1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 624
Title:: Chronicles; Passionale (Lives of Saints); Historica collectanea
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three different parts gathered by Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist and antiquary. Two of these parts were written and compiled by him between c. 1639-1643, they consist of chronicles related to the history of Britain (ff. 1v-83r; 145r-217r). An...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1643
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 633
Title:: Pseudo-Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Liber pontificalis; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales pseudo-Isidorianae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber pontificalis (the Book of the Popes), a collection of biographies of popes from St Peter until Pope Clement III (b. 1130, d. 1191), attributed to Anastasius Bibliothecarius (b. c. 810, d. c. 878). It also contains the Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianae (Pseudo-Isido...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 649
Title:: Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas; Homiliae Evangelii; In Tobiam; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 651
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica; list concerning ecclesiastical dioceses; Chronicle from the creation of the world to 1384; England from Alfred to Richard II (with continuations); Names of the kings of Britain and the Heptarchy; Miracle at the shrine of Our Lady of Ipswich; Chronicle from the Creation to 1384; Series of English kings, from Alfred...
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of three parts that were separately produced in England. The first part (ff. 4-177) was produced in the third quarter of the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin, Reading (Berkshire). It contains a collection of chronicles as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter 12th century-4th quarter 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 658
Title:: Glossed Gospel of St John; Peter of Poitiers, Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi; Theological and computistical tracts; Richard of St Victor, Commentary on Joel and Nahum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a miscellany of study aids for the Bible, bound together with a collection of scientific, poetic and theological diagrams. It includes the Gospel of St John with glosses, the Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi (A Compendium of History in the Genealogy of Christ) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 12th-1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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