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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3035
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae and De natura rerum
Scope & Content:: The volume contains the Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville (599-636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), the editor of the text (ff. 1r-47r, 63v-264r). The text is preceded by five letters of correspondence between St. Isidore and Braulio Bishop o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1495
Extent:: 265 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3053
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, books 10-23
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a three-volume of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job written at the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139. The first volume is Harley MS 3052, the third volume is Harley MS 3054. Contents: f. 1r: inscribed 'Secunda ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3054
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, books 24-35
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the third volume of a three-volume copy of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job,written at the Premonstratensian abbey of St Mary and Nicholas, Arnstein, founded in 1139. The first volume is Harley MS 3052, the second volume is Harley MS 3053. Contents: f. 1r: inscribed 'Ter...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3892
Title:: Miscellaneous texts on rhetoric, grammar, geometry and divination
Scope & Content:: Miscellaneous and composite volume made of 5 small manuscripts written by different scribes (ff. 1r-8v; 9r-16v; 17r-24v; 25r-42v; 43r-58v). Includes: Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium, imperfect (ff. 1r-8v); De scholastica disciplina liber scilicet grammatica, imperfect (ff. 9r-16v);...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1400-1454
Extent:: 58 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4335
Title:: Le Livre de Boece de Consolacion (Book I)
Scope & Content:: Le livre de Boece de Consolacion, Book 1, with prologues and table of contents. This is the first volume of a five-volume set (Harley MSS 4335-4339) containing Boethius, Philosophiae consolatio (The Consolation of Philosophy), with an anonymous French verse-prose translation. Each chapter in L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1477
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales; Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of two parts that were produced separately in Southern France. The first part (ff. 1-118) was produced in the last quarter of the 12th or 3rd quarter of the 13th century and contains the sermons for Sundays attributed to John Halgren of Abbeville (d. 1237), Fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century -1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5304
Title:: Vita Terentii; Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Vita Terentii (Life of Terence), beginning, 'Revertente autem Scipione romam devucta Cartagine'. ff. 2r-135r: Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments, including: ff. 1r-26r: Andria (The Girl from Andros). ff. 26r-50r: Eunuchus. ff. 50v-74v: Heauton Timorum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5689
Title:: St John Chrysostom and St Basil of Ancyra
Scope & Content:: Erased Greek inscription (f. 1). Fragments of a later liturgical manuscript which are now kept separately formerly strengthened the corners of the leaves of the present MS.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6516
Title:: Sallust, De Coniuratione Catilinae and De Bello Jugurthino
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works by the Roman historian Gaius Sallustius Crispus (b. 86 BC, d. c. 35 BC), also known as Sallust. De Coniuratione Catilinae (On the Conspiracy of Catiline) chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government of Rome by the aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC. De Bello ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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