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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2820
Title:: Gospels (the 'Cologne Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Gospels, known as the 'Cologne Gospels'. The manuscript includes: ff. 2r-8v: Canon tables. ff. 9r-10v: Jerome's epistle to pope Damasus, incipit: 'Novum opus cogis me facere ex veteri'. ff. 10v-236v: The four Gospels with prologues: Matthew, prologue (ff. 10v-11v), Gospel (ff. 12r-75v); Mark,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3056
Title:: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones
Scope & Content:: Lactantius Firmianus, Divinae institutiones, 3 first books and chapter 14 of book 4, incipit: 'Magno [et] excellenti ingenio.' Decoration: Spaces left for initials and rubrics.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3302
Title:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, incipit: 'Carmina qui quondam studio florente.' Decoration: 5 historiated initials with a two- or three-sided foliate border including acanthus leaves and besants depicting men (Boethius?) and women (personifications of Philosophy?), at the beginning of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1470-c 1480
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3688
Title:: Cartulary of Missenden Abbey
Scope & Content:: ff. 1*v–2*r: Added sheet with a table of estimated conversions of weights and measures, in English (early 15th century). ff. 1r–15v: Contemporary table of contents. ff. 16r–186v: General cartulary, compiled by Robert de Welwes and completed 20 Feb 1330 or 1331; arranged in sections, mainly top...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1330-1331
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3999
Title:: Collection of devotional texts
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a miscellany of devotional texts produced in one campaign as a collection: ff. 1r-24r: Le trésor attributed to Jean de Meun, rubric: 'Icy commence le tresor maistre Jehan de Mehun', incipit: 'O glorieuse trinite'. ff. 25r-65v: Pierre de Nesson, Les vigiles des morts, ru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1430-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5004
Title:: Aristotle and Pseudo-Aristotle, Works
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a collection of works by or attributed to Aristotle in Latin translations: 1. Ethica (ff. 2r-64v); 2. Politica (ff. 64v-136v); 3. Rhetorica (ff. 137r-181r) 4. Pseudo-Aristotle, Economica (ff. 181v-184v) 5. Magna moralia (184v-208v). f. 1 is a flyleaf including the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 649
Title:: Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas; Homiliae Evangelii; In Tobiam; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2631
Title:: Cicero, De senectute; Paradoxa stoicorum; Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Invectiva ad hypocritas; Cicero Novus; Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis, in a Latin translation by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; Demosthenes, De Chersoneso; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; De amicitia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of classical and humanistic texts including a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes, and a biography of Cicero by the Italian historian and statesman Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (b. 1370...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1427-1430
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3081
Title:: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Vitis mystica; Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione; Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda; and other texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo. ff. 101r-102v: De Sancta Monica matre sancti Augustini. ff. 102r-103r: Pope Calixtus, De conversione sancti Augustini episcopi. ff. 103r-104r: Sigebert of Gembloux, In epistola ad Macedoniam de beato Augustino. ff. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1407
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4123
Title:: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae; Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscripts of two parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 2r-126r) was written in the Southern Netherlands in 1349. Part 2 was written in England or the Southern Netherlands in the 2nd half of the 14th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 2r-49r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1349-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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