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1. Harley MS 2961

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2961
Title:
Leofric Collectar
Scope & Content:
The Leofric Collectar, comprising a collectar, a hymnal and a series of sequences for a community of secular canons. The manuscript is imperfect: it ends mid-sequence and appears to be missing its final quire. Judging by its script, it was made at Exeter during the episcopate of Bishop Leofric ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1050-1072
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 5036

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

3. Harley MS 2793

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

4. Harley MS 2905

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2905
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript includes a calendar with Augustinian elements, followed by the Psalms, Canticles and Hymns. ff. 1r-6v: A calendar with the zodiac signs. ff. 7r-190v: Psalms, imperfect at the beginning, Psalm 1 and the first verses of Psalm 2 are lacking; beginning: '[ip]sorum. Qui ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 4664

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4664
Title:
Breviary of Coldingham Priory
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains 3 separate parts with liturgical texts made for the Benedictine priory of Coldingham: Part I (14th century): ff. 2r-8v: Liturgical lections and antiphons for the feast of Corpus Christi, 'In festivitate corporis Christi ad jesperas [sic] super psalmos' (with added lect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1250–c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 1229

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1229
Title:
Missal
Scope & Content:
This Cistercian missal was written in England around 1200, possibly at the Cistercian abbey St Mary the Virgin at Waverley (Surrey): the abbey, founded in 1128, was the first Cistercian monastery in England. The missal’s size indicates that it was probably intended for use at the high altar. The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 2805

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

8. Harley MS 2975

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2975
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar in Latin. f. 2r: A circular diagram with instruction for finding Sunday Letters and Golden Numbers, starting in the year 1500. f. 2v: 'Tabula duodecum signorum zodyaci'. ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including feasts for St Ludger, Bishop of Münster in Westph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 3098

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3098
Title:
Liber Pancrisis
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest of three existing copies of the Liber Pancrisis (The All-Golden Book) (the other manuscripts are Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale, 19 and Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes (olim Bibliothèque Municipale), Fonds ancien 425). This is an anthology...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1160-1170
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2430
Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

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