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3991. Harley MS 4392

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4392
Title:
Octavien de Saint-Gelais, l'Histoire d'Euralius et Lucresse (C.22.b.1.)
Scope & Content:
Harley MS 4392 is a printed book that was transferred to the Department of Printed Books in May 1867. It now has the shelfmark C.22.b.1. The book contains the only printed version on vellum of the French translation of the Historia de duobus amantibus (The Tale of Two Lovers), an epistolary nove...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1493
Extent:
1 volume

3992. Harley MS 6913

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6913
Title:
Satirical poems
Scope & Content:
Quarto manuscript volume containing a miscellany of mostly satirical poetry. Contents: ff. 1-2: ‘Prologue’. First Line: ‘Gentle Reproofs have long been try’d in vain’. Attributed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl Rochester. ff. 3-4v: ‘To Mr Julian from the Lord R.’ First line: ‘Julian in verse to ease t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1680s
Extent:
1 volume

3993. Harley MS 773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 773
Title:
Formulary
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of 15th century legal and administrative documents copied to serve as models for a scribe. Contents: f. iir is a scrap of paper pasted onto an unfoliated modern endleaf, bearing the note: '12 Nou: 1661 / at the shop agst Mr Littlebury'. ff. iiir-v is a scrap of parchmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3994. Harley MS 221

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 221
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains a copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a 15th-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Add MS 22556 (imperfect), Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 321....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3995. Harley MS 652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 652
Title:
Homiliary; Lections from six lives of saints connected to St Augustine's abbey; Fragment from the homiliary attributed to Alan de Farfa
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, consists of a homiliary with 119 sermons for the period between Holy Saturday and the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The main structure of the homiliary derives from the reconstructed collection of Paul the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3996. Harley MS 4352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4352
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini. ff. 39v-64r: Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis. ff. 65r-72v: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo. Decoration: Numerous large and smaller initials in gold with red out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

3997. Harley MS 5394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5394
Title:
Bede, De schematibus et tropis; Barlaam et Iosaphat; Bartholomew the Englishman, De proprietatibus rerum (book 15); Compositio de ponderibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 62r-62v: 2 13th-century leaves containing verses from an unidentified copy of Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis (Book 6, f. 1; Book 8, f. 62). ff. 3r-5v, 59r-60r: Bede the Venerable, De schematibus et tropis, with the incipit 'Incipit liber venerabilis Bede de figuris verbo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3998. Harley MS 3770

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3770
Title:
Scope & Content:
Ramón Lull, Theological and Philosophical Treatises; 15th cent. Latin. Copy. The MS. comprises a number of works by the Catalan theologian and mystic Ramón Lull (circa 1232-1315). The cataloguing of this MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the text relating to medicine is itemised ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

3999. Harley MS 1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1021
Title:
A collection of excerpts from scriptural commentaries
Scope & Content:
A florilegium of scriptural commentaries by Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome and others. The individual excerpts are almost all without acknowledgement of the source, and they are only sometimes grouped into larger categories. It is imperfect at the end. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Excerpts from co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1225
Extent:
1 volume

4000. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

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