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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5037
Title:: Breviary for Franciscan use
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-25r: Psalter, begins imperfectly in Psalm 101, incipit: ‘ut sedeant mecum’; with Litany, including St Thomas Becket and St Francis. ff. 25r-28v: Office of the Dead. ff. 28v-30v: Ordo Missae, imperfect at the end. ff. 31r-174r: Temporale, rubric: ‘Ad honore omn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5396
Title:
Scope & Content:: Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1200-1470
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1915
Title:: The Eusebian canon tables; Zacharias of Besançon, De Concordia Evangelistarum; Bede, Expositio Super Acta Apostolorum; Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum; Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim; Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is closely related to the readings of the New Testament as it includes a concordance on the four Gospels written by Zacharias of Besancon (d. 1157). It is followed by Bede's commentary on the Acts of Apostle, including his retractatio, a treatise in which he underlined his own mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2575
Title:: Metrical and grammatical miscellany including Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica, and Gasparino Barzizza, Tractatus de punctis
Scope & Content:: A humanistic miscellany containing various metrical and grammatical treatises by classical and humanist scholars. Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Leonicenus Omnibonus (b. 1412, d. 1480), De arte metrica, begins 'Pes in metro dicitur quod pedis fungitur officio. Metra enim per pedes...' ends 'Explicit ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3034
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de passione domini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Excerpts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies)books VI, VIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX, with added titles in the margins (ff. 9v-10r). For detailed contents, see Steinová 'Innovating Knowledge' online. ff. 11v-58r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2278
Title:: John Lydgate, Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund
Scope & Content:: The presentation copy of John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. Commissioned by Abbot William Curetys for presentation to King Henry VI upon or shortly after his visit to the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds between Christmas 1433 and Easter 1434. 2 full-page miniatures in colours and gold (ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1434-1439
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 261
Title:: William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum and Gesta Pontificum Anglorum; Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Scope & Content:: This late 12th- or early 13th-century manuscript may have been produced by the cathedral priory of St Andrew in Rochester, but was certainly at the priory in the 13th or 14th century and may have remained there until the priory was dissolved in 1540. The manuscript contains the Gesta regum Anglo...
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 3001
Title:: Gregory the Great, De Cura pastoralis; Epistola ad Palladium; Epistola ad Leandrum; Jerome, Ad Amandus; De Duodecim abusivis saeculi; Florus of Lyon, Sermo de praedestinatione
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: List of capitula for St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), De Cura pastoralis (Pastoral Care). f. 2r: An added prayer, in a late 12th or early 13th century-hand, crossed out. ff. 2v-75v: St Gregory the Great, De Cura pastoralis. ff. 75v-76v: St Gregory the Great, Epist...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6149
Title:: A collection of Scots and Latin heraldic and chivalric treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-1v: An untitled Scots heraldic treatise on the different rights and privileges of the kings of arms and heralds, and the sergeants of arms in service of the king, beginning: ‘Arthour son to the duke of Bertaingnie erle of Richmont lord of partynay Counstable of ffrance Till all...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Scots
Date Range:: c 1494
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2901
Title:: Coronation order for the king of England
Scope & Content:: Coronation order for the king of England of the 4th recension, presumably composed for the coronation of King Edward II of England in 1308 (see Bond 1884-1894, pl. 196 and Hughes 1990). Incipit: 'Die quo novis rex est consecrandus' (f. 1v); 'Ordo novum regem in regno constituendi (f. 3r). Includ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1308
Extent:: 1 volume

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