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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2929
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Medieval parchment flyleaf with added inscriptions (see Provenance). ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French. ff. 14r-19r: Gospel readings. ff. 19v-22r: 'Obsecro te'. f. 23r: Added prayers in French, beginning 'Au despourueu ne me', 16th century. f. 23v: Added beginning of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1490-c 1510
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2933
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar (ff. 2r-13v). Written by two scribes, one for ff. 14r-157r and the other for ff. 157r-190v, both for the calendar (ff. 2r-13v). f. 1v is blank. Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures with large decorated initials and full foliate borders, in colours...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2959
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Added inscriptions (see Provenance). ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French, including the feasts of St Audoin ('Ouen', 24 August) and St Romanus of Rouen ('Romain', 23 October) in red. ff. 14r-17v: Gospel readings. ff. 17v-19v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 19v-21v: 'O intemerata'. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3258
Title:: Collected theological poems of Henry Holland
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86v: Collected theological poems of Henry Holland (b. 1550, d. 1625), beginning with: 'De Deo puro'. Including poems such as 'In Laudem Joannis Fecknami Abbatis Westmonasteriensis'; 'In mortem illustris Confessoris Baronis Pagetti obsidem Exulis'; 'In mortis viri nobilis Samps...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1600
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3452/2
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: Preface to Eusebius of Caesarea, Historiae ecclesiasticae (Ecclesiastical History), translated by Rufinus of Aquileia, imperfect, and partial table of contents for bk 1, missing ff. 2-237 (bound separately as Harley MS 3452/1). Decoration: Damaged white vine border in colo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3694
Title:: Livy, Ab urbe condita; Epitomies; Periochae
Scope & Content:: Contents: The text of this manuscript is copied or derived from the 1469 Rome edition: see de la Mare, 'New Research' (1985), written by Hubertus W. ff. 1v-151r: Livy, Ab urbe condita, Fourth Decade. ff. 152r-186v: Epitomies. ff. 187r-214v: Periochae. Decoration: Title page with gold maju...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4737
Title:: Formulary for legal processes (Formularius Instrumentorum)
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-56v: Formularius Instrumentorum; formulary for legal processes in four books (one of which is missing), beginning: 'De principio et forma instrumentorum'. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1r (lower margin): A practice alphabet; added in the later Middle Ages. f. 1r (parchm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1225-c 1275
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5066
Title:: Sermones de Sanctis; two theological treatises
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: a parchment slip containing a fragment from a theological text. ff. 2r-130v: Sermones de Sanctis. ff. 131r-144v: a theological treatise, beginning: 'Adam prope pomum'. ff. 145r-236v: a theological treatise, beginning: 'capitalibus cum umbra'. ff. 237r-239v: several notes an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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