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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3534
Title:: Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and marginal glosses. It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing Horace’ (1996), p. 107). Contents: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3571
Title:: A Life of the Virgin Mary and Christ, in Italian
Scope & Content:: This manuscript features an Italian text that can be described as a vita of the Virgin Mary and Christ, although it also highlights the role of St Joseph after Christ's death. The narrative starts with the Virgin's birth and childhood and ends with her assumption into heaven. Perhaps another ver...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3661
Title:: The elections of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a guide to the election of abbesses of Holy Trinity Abbey in Caen, France, based upon the procedure followed at Agnès de Thieuville’s election in 1482. The guide is appended with a later account of the appointment of Anne de Montmorency as abbess in 1555, by which time a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1482
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3667
Title:: Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3680
Title:: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae; a tract on the conversion of Kent; Catalogus sanctorum qui in Anglia requiescunt, imperfect
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), the Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3707
Title:: Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia peregrinationis Ierosolimitane (with a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis); Petrus Alphonsi, Contra Judaeos dialogi
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Ierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) by Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1050, d. 1130), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil and bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne. The work presents a history of the events of the First Crusade in four books, beginnin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3771
Title:: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione; Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: ff. 2r-11r: Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Chronologia sive Libellus de mundi duratione (Chronology or tract on the duration of the world), beginning: 'Quantocumque tempore, in divinis legibus'. ff. 11r-145v: Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronica, a chronicle about the Merovingian k...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3826
Title:: Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains texts on vocabulary and scribal practices and glossaries. It includes: ff. 1r-24r: Alcuin, De orthographia (incomplete); ff. 24v-71r: Bede, De orthographia; ff. 71v-84r: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book III; ff. 84r-86v: text beginning ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: late 10th-early 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3828
Title:: Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This composite prayer-book with Middle Dutch and Latin texts consists of four distinct parts: two parts (ff. 1r-12v, and ff. 17r-75v) were made in Flanders (probably Bruges) in the 1440s; and two others (ff. 13r-16v, and ff. 76r-208r) in the Netherlands (probably North Brabant) in the 2nd half o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3845
Title:: Collectio Dacheriana
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of the Collectio Dacheriana, a collection of canon law created in Southern France, perhaps in Lyon, during the Carolingian reform in the first half of the 9th century, according to Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999). ff. 1r-147v: Collectio Dacheriana, preced...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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