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1541. Harley MS 321, ff 23v-24r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 321, ff 23v-24r
Title:
Computistical diagram with explanatory text
Scope & Content:
Computistical diagram with explanatory text; incipit 'mille bis et quinque sit centum denotat'. Decoration: Circular computistic diagram in ink (f 24r). A note above the diagram was added by a different scribe; incipit 'annus solaris est'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

2 folios.

1542. Harley MS 321, ff 24v-28r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 321, ff 24v-28r
Title:
Simon Bredon, Nomina instrumentorum astrolabii, sive Astrolabii declaratio et usus
Scope & Content:
Simon Bredon, Nomina instrumentorum astrolabii, sive Astrolabii declaratio et usus.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

5 folios

1543. Harley MS 321, ff 30r-33v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 321, ff 30r-33v
Title:
Descriptio machine mundane cum situ et figuris corporum eam constituentium ac eorundem motus
Scope & Content:
Rubric: 'Descriptio machine mundane cum situ et figuris corporum eam constituentium ac eorundem motus'; incipit: 'Intentio mea in hoc tractatu est describere figuram machine mundane.' Decoration: Initials in red at the beginning of paragraphs.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

4 folios.

1544. Harley MS 321, ff 34r-36r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 321, ff 34r-36r
Title:
Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum
Scope & Content:
Marbodus Redonensis, Liber lapidum; 16th century title: Metrica precipuarum gemmarum descriptio. Decoration: Space with guide letters left for initials at the beginning of each entry .
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
3 folios.

1545. Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 1r-27v
Title:
Bede, Vita Cuthberti Metrica (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020)
Scope & Content:
This work contains a late 9th century copy of Bede's verse Life of Cuthbert, written in the region which is now northern France. It was in England by the mid-10th century, given the Old English names inscribed in the margin and the Old English glosses in the text (see, for example, ff. 2r, 15r)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:
27 folios, part of a parchment codex

1546. Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 28r-37v
Title:
Vita Venerabilis Bedae (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069)
Scope & Content:
This item contains prose life of Bede (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 1069), copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century. The preface begins 'Inter catholicos sacrae Scripturae expositores...' Decoration: 2 coloured initials (f. 28r-v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 12th century
Extent:
10 folios, part of a parchment codex

1547. Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 38r-57v
Title:
Anonymous Vita Ædwardi Regis (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2421)
Scope & Content:
This item contains the sole surviving copy of the Vita Ædwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor (b. c 1003, d. 1066) written by an anonymous author with sections in prose and verse. The text is imperfect, possibly missing two folios each from the first and last quire. Decoration: Painted initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1100
Extent:
19 folios, part of a parchment codex

1548. Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 58r-67v
Title:
Fragment of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the last page of a copy of Ailred of Rievaulx's Vita S Edwardi Regis et Confessoris (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2423) (f. 58*r). It is followed by an imperfect copy of the papal commissioners' report on the sanctity of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, which an early modern ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 13th century
Extent:
12 folios, part of a parchment codex

1549. Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 526, ff 68r-77v
Title:
Vita Ade et Evae
Scope & Content:
This item contains a 14th-century copy of an apocryphal text, entitled 'Vita Protoplasti nostri Ade, et Eve uxoris sue, fabulosissima' in this manuscript. Decoration: 1 large initial in blue and red (f. 68r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
10 folios, part of a parchment codex

1550. Harley MS 531, f 1*r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 531, f 1*r
Title:
Table of contents.
Scope & Content:
The table of contents was added by Roger Marchall in 1474. The last two items on the list are not included in the manuscript.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1474
Extent:
1 folio preceded by an unfoliated parchment flyleaf.

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