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4211. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

4212. Harley MS 1758

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1758
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, including the Tale of Gamelyn. Imperfect, with the loss of many folios throughout the manuscript. Occasional marginal notes in English and Latin are written by the scribe of the nearby text, and some (in red) by the rubricator. A few additional notes in ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4213. Harley MS 2648

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2648
Title:
D. Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal), Saturae
Scope & Content:
D. Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal), Saturae, incipit: 'Semper ego audior tantum.' Decoration: Full white vine ('bianchi girari') border in colours and gold with a large initial in gold (f. 1r). 14 gold initials (ff. 4r, 7v, 14r, 17r, 20v, 34r, 39r, 44v, 47v, 54v, 58v, 61v, 73r, 74). The border o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1410
Extent:
Parchment codex

4214. Harley MS 2672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2672
Title:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8, incipit: '[F]acturus ne sim operae pretium si a primordio'. Decoration: Plain initials in dark brown ink (f. 51r), outlined initials (ff. 108r, 151r), or spaces left for initials at the beginning of books (ff. 1r, 26v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

4215. Harley MS 2804

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2804
Title:
Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Psalms-Acts 16:17, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Second volume of a two-volume monumental Bible (the first volume is Harley MS 2803, Genesis to Job), containing the Latin Vulgate from Psalms to Acts 16:17, imperfect. Decoration: 2 large miniatures in colours and gold of Jerome writing and of David as a harpist at the preface to Psalms (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex, 274 folios.

4216. Harley MS 323

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 323
Title:
Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis; Pope Clement V, Constitutiones Clementinae; Raymund de Peñafort, Decretals of Gregory IX (fragment); Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie; laws from the reign of Henry III; Registrum Brevium (fragment); Pope Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Bernardus Parmensis, Casus longi quinque libros decretalium
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of eight parts that were written separately at different moments in time and joined together at a later stage, before or after reaching the library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650). Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-12v: Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4217. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

4218. Harley MS 2682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2682
Title:
Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, Laelius de amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute, various speeches (including Philippicae, Orationes in Catilinam, Pro Marcello), Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Officiis; Pseudo-Quintus Tullius Cicero, De petitione consulatus; Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Sallusti; Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola magni Alexandri ad Aristotelem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, containing mainly works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), has long been an important source for scholarship and textual criticism on Cicero’s works. It was first collated in the late-16th century by the Flemish jurist and humanist François Modius (b. 1556, d. 1597)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4219. Harley MS 3097

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3097
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Botulphi; Vitae Tancredi, Torhtredi and Tovae; De Translatione Sanctorum Qui in Thornensi Monasterio Requiescunt; Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci; St Ambrose of Milan, Sermo de Observantia Episcoporum; Ambrose, De Misteriis; Ambrose, De Sacramentis; De Helia et Jejunio; Prologue to the Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Miracles of St Nicholas
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 419/420), followed by saints’ lives and sermons. It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot of Thorney Abbey and three saints at Thorney who were mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century - 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4220. Harley MS 3009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3009
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum Progenitorum Iesu Christ
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the last two of the four books of the Dialogues (Dialogi) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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