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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3667
Title:: Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 462
Title:: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–23r: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (selections, in several different hands). In the 17th century, the manuscript was bound as one volume with Harley MS 459–461 and Harley MS 463 (see table of contents in Harley MS 459, f. 2v). Decoration: Some sections open with a two-line initial...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4955
Title:: Verse compilation (‘The Newcastle MS’)
Scope & Content:: Collection of poetry and drama compiled by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), between 1620 and 1634. In the hand of Cavendish’s secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681) (Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, 1993). Contains poems and entertainm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1620-1634
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5436
Title:: Origen, Sermon on St Mary Magdalen; Gulielmus Brito, Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistola ad Paulum et invicem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological works written in the 15th century. It also contains fragments from other manuscripts that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript. Among these are two previously unidentified leaves from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, which survives ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1451-1469
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones; Liber Catonianus
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made of two parts produced at different locations and times. The first part (ff. 5r-76r) contains the Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law) by the late-12th century theologian Peter of Blois and the Institutiones (Institutions) by Emperor Justinian I (b. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1250
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6509
Title:: A patristical collection, including Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-97r: Gregory the Great, De cura pastorali. ff. 97v-106r: Ambrose, Libellus de dignitate sacerdotali. ff. 106v-132r: Ambrose, De Helia et ieiunio. ff. 132r-134r: Augustine, 'Sermo ad episcopos'. ff. 134r-135v: The Passion of St Fidelis, Exantus and Carpophorus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1775
Title:: Gospels (the 'Harley Gospels', or 'Codex Harleianus')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript of the Gospels is source 'Z' in the studies of the Latin New Testament (Wordsworth and White; Bonifatius Fischer). Corrections in a contemporary hand in slanting uncial employ a Greek style of syllabification recalling the method of Victor of Capua (as in the Codex Fuldensis). Ci...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 6th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3106
Title:: Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Life of Onuphrius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-98v: Gregory the Great, Dialogi in four books, each preceded by a rubric and a table of contents, incipit (Book 1): 'Quidam die dum minus quorundam seccularium.' ff. 99r-107r: a Life of Onuphrius (BHL 6334a), incipit: 'Panuntius humilis servus vostre sanctitatis omnibus dei fam...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3743
Title:: Justinian, Digestum Vetus, with Accursius, Glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:: Justinian, Digestum Vetus, preceded by the Constitutio 'Omnem', incipit: 'Omnem iuris publice'; Accursius, Apparatus ad Constitutionem 'Omnem', incipit: 'Imperator quia imperat' (ff. 3r-5r); text incipit: 'Iuri operam daturum' (ff. 5r-307v), Accursius, Apparatus ad Digestum vetus (glossa ordinar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1300
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3992
Title:: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Les Voeux du Paon composed in 1312 by Jacques de Longuyon for Tibaut de Bar, bishop of Liege; imperfect: following verses are missing: 1-980; 2560-2833; 6967-7080; 7248-8784; incipit: 'Oncles dist gadifer se vostre conseil niere'; explicit: 'Si grant quil li fance et perc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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