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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4978
Title:: St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4979
Title:: Roman d'Alexandre in prose
Scope & Content:: Contents: This copy of the Roman d'Alexandre in prose is one of the three extant manuscripts of the 2nd recension, known as 'Redaction II'. The other two manuscripts are Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78.C.I and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 11040. Incipit (prologue): 'La terre de machido...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1300
Extent:: A parchment codex, 87 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980
Title:: Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi and other Alcuin's works
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three parts of different origin and period, perhaps bound together in the 13th century in Carcassone, according to Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012). Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980' (1936) argues that 'textual and orthographic peculiarities' in th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century-9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4984
Title:: Collection of texts about St Martin of Tours: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini, Epistolae, Dialogi (books 1-3); Gregory of Tours, De Virtutibus Sancti Martini and Libri Octo Miraculorum
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours (d. 397) by Sulpicius Severus (b. c. 363, d. c. 425) and Gregory of Tours (b. c. 538, d. 594). The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contempo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5036
Title:: Prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1475-c 1590
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5041
Title:: A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5237
Title:: Boethius, De institutione musica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione musica (On the Principles of Music), imperfect (Book 1, 23-Book 5, 8) beginning at the chapter 23 of the first book: 'Hoc igitur modo per singular tetrachorda in generum proprietates partitio facta est', ending at the chapter 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5251
Title:: Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5280
Title:: Collection of Irish historical, mythological and religious texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of Irish texts from the Ulster, Finn and mythological cycles. Also some religious and glossarial material. A detailed catalogue description is provided in O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 298-323. Contents: ff. 1-10 are later inserted paper leaves. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6670
Title:: Cartulary of Coldstream Priory
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Coldstream Priory of St Mary, founded before 1166 by Cospatric III (d. 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar. The cartulary contains copies of one charter of King Alexander II (r. 1214-1249) and several of the Earls of Dunbar, including Cospatric III (d. 116...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1434
Extent:: 1 volume

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