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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 47r-54v
Title:: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (books 4-5)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 47r-54v: Priscian (fl. 500), Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), books 4-5 with interlinear and marginal glosses, begins imperfectly in chapter 2 of book 4, beginning: '[...] in tus desinentibus derivantur abiecta .s. assumunt do ut habitus habitudo'; ending imperfe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2688, ff 55r-66v
Title:: Boethius, De musica (books 1-2)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 55r-66v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De musica (On music), books 1-2, with marginal glosses, beginning: '[O]mnium quidem percepcio sensum'; ending: 'Nunc voluminis seriem fastidii vitator astringam'. Decoration: Space left for an initial at the beginning of the text. Initials...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 2688

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 1-35
Title:: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi
Scope & Content:: The Life of Ceolfrid contains an account of the making of Ceolfrid's three great pandects (f. 27r). The Life, written by an anonymous monk, survives in only two manuscripts. Harley MS 3020 is the earliest (see Backhouse, The Making of England (1991)). Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Bede, Homiliae in Eva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 36-94
Title:: Vitae Sanctorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Caelesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'. ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St St...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 95-132
Title:: Passio Sancte Juliane; Paul the Deacon of Naples, translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus,
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 96r-112r: Passio Sancte Juliane (Passion of St Juliana of Nicomedia), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sancte Iuliane martyre quod est idus februarii initium Nicomedia sub Maximiano imperatore. Tempore illo quidan senator nomine Eleusius, amicus Maximiani imperatoris'. ff. 113r-132r: P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3941/2
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4804/1
Title:: Prologue on Psalms attributed to St Augustine; Book of Psalms including Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentarius in Psalterium
Scope & Content:: The first volume of two separate volumes with continuous foliation: Harley MS 4804/1 (ff. 1-167v), and Harley MS 4804/2 (ff. 168-336v). The first volume is a book of Psalms containing the commentary on the Psalms written by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. after 1085, d. 1154), copied in Chartres durin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118v: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales, beginning ‘Dominicales sermones iohannis de abbatis villa · episcopi Sabinensis’. Decoration: 1 large red initial with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red or brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4951

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951, ff 119-301
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 120r-301v: Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse with neumes, and including a tonary on ff. 295v-301v, beginning ‘Autentus protus ad sonales . Tonum .I.’. This part contains a number of later (11th- and 12th-century) additions: f. 119r: A latin text in the upper margin, faded ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4951

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967, ff 1r-76v
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Short texts and notes, including a poem on f. 2r which is also in Royal MS 11 D III, f. 243r. f. 4v: A table of contents of Justinian's Institutiones (Institutions). ff. 5r-19r: Peter of Blois (b. c. 1130, d. 1212), Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law), beg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4967

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