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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2735
Title:: Epitome libri Glossarum, with additions by Heiric of Auxerre
Scope & Content:: The Epitome libri glossarum has been glossed by Heiric of Auxerre (b. 841, d. 876), monk of the Benedictine abbey of St-Germain d'Auxerre, theologian, philosopher and hagiographer. He composed and copied ff. 206v-208v. ff. 1r-206r: Epitome libri glossarum (Summary of the Book of Glosses), abbr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2736
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s De oratore, copied by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 800, d. 863) around 836, according to Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930). Lupus produced this manuscript perhaps from Eginhard's exemplar (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930)). This volume als...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2763
Title:: Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2767
Title:: Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2790
Title:: The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2793
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-146v: Psalterium Hebraicum, Psalter in the Hebraicum version, preceded by the prologue of St Jerome (ff. 1v-2v); St Jerome's epistle to Sunnia and Fretela (ff. 3r-32v); beginning with the first Psalm (f. 33r), 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; followed by Canticl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2795
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (Prologue to the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'. ff. 4r-6v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (St Jerome's e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2797
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 7r-8v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by the prologue (ff. 7r-8r). ff. 8v-9v: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew). ff. 9v-10v: Eusebius,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2805
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect. Decoration: Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2823
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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