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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 613
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Bible, imperfect: begins in Genesis 34:23; incipit: '[ha]bitantes simul unum efficiemus populum'. Includes: Genesis (ff. 1r-6v); Exodus (ff. 6v-18v); Leviticus (18v-24v); Numbers (ff. 24v-36r); Deuteronomy (ff. 36r-47r); Jerome's prologue to Judges (ff. 47r-47v); Joshua (ff. 47v-55v); Judges (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1804
Title:: Prayer-book
Scope & Content:: Contents: 1. ff. 1r-12v: Calendar including North English and Durham saints: Oswin, Guthlac, Wilfrid, John of Beverley, Godric of Finchale, Bede, William (Archbishop of York), Botwulf, Carilef, Bifil, Oswald, Ebba, Aidan, Cuthbert and Hilda. 2. ff. 13r-15v: Obituary for priors and bishops of D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1494-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2821
Title:: Gospel-book
Scope & Content:: ff. 2v-8r: Prefatory material including: St Jerome's Epistle to Damasus, beginning, 'Novum opus facere' (ff. 2v-5v); preceded by two full page images of the commendation of an abbot (or a monk) to Christ (ff. 1v-2r) and two full-page incipit pages (2v-3r); Argumentum, beginning, 'Sciendum etiam ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4389
Title:: Roman de Tristan
Scope & Content:: Roman de Tristan in prose. For an edition of the text, see Curtis, Le Roman de Tristan (1985). Opening rubric (in red) now worn into illegibility. Incipit (f. 1; see Roman 1985, I, p. 120): 'En ceste partie dit li contes que tant demora li rois Apollo a la cort li roi Clodovex'. Explicit (f. 61...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1275-1324
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1704
Title:: Collection of works in Middle English and Latin, including Chaucer's Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is made up of four parts that were separately produced at different moments in time. The first part (ff. 1r-12v) was written in the first half of the 14th century and contains a number of legal texts, including the sole witness to the complete text of the Consiliatio Cnu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century-mid 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3073
Title:: Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David; Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences
Scope & Content:: This manuscript may be the presentation copy of the text given by Nicholas of Clairvaux to count Henry I of Champagne (d. 1181), according to Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence' (1962), p. 163, n. 44. Nicholas of Clairvaux was appointed the head of the Benedictine pri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3176
Title:: Sermons on the Virgin Mary; Arnold of Bonneval, Commentarius in Psalmum CXXXII; excerpts from theological works
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-65r: Sermons on the Virgin Mary for the Marian feasts, with a list of headings (f. 1v). f. 65r: A 4-line verse in praise of the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘Ne queras nomen cui gratia contulit omen’ (printed in full in Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, III (1808), p. 8). ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 926
Title:: Vetera Statuta
Scope & Content:: Vetera Statuta (ff. 7r-103v) written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient into England ancient quartered with France ancient (see Provenance). The text of Vetera Statuta is preceded by a quire including notes relating to taxes and feuda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1329-Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 927
Title:: Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set. The first volume is Harley MS 926. f. 1v: List of contents. ff. 2r-127v: Registrum brevium from the royal chancery of Edward III, written and illuminated after 1329 and before 1340 when Edward III changed his arms from England ancient in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1329-c 1364
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3413
Title:: Aristotle, Ethica
Scope & Content:: Aristotle, Ethica (Nicomachean Ethics), in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino) (ff. 5r-109v), with a preface (ff. 1r-4v), and a table of contents (ff. 110r-123v); rubric (preface): 'Leonardus Aretinus civis florentinus', incipit (preface): 'Aristotelis ethicorum ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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