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391. Egerton MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3776
Title:
St Jerome, Commentaries on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first six books of St Jerome's (b. 347, d. 420) commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Ezekiel. It was produced in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds; it is particularly in this period, during th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

392. Harley MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2
Title:
Collection of historical and theological texts, including Elias of Evesham, ‘Quadrilogus’ of materials relating to Thomas Becket; Eustace of Faversham, Vita sancti Edmundi Cantuariensis;and William of Malmesbury, De Gesta Pontificum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains ten parts written in England during the 2nd half of the 12th century or the 1st half of the 13th century. Most likely they were once part of different manuscripts (as suggested by a quire mark (‘III’) on f. 257v). A (? late) 13th-century table of contents that lists all...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

393. Harley MS 46

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 46
Title:
Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-v: Capitula referring to quires and folios of the manuscript. ff. 3r-4r: Preface on the Gospels, excerpted from Genesis, beginning: ‘Fecit deus duo magna luminaria’ ff. 4r-6v: Glossed prologue to the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: ‘Mattheus ex iudea sicut in ordine’; gloss on the pro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

394. Harley MS 59

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 59
Title:
Pseudo-Hegesippus, Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves the work known as Historia Iosephi de Bello Iudaico et Excidio Urbis Hierosolymitanae (The History of Josephus on the Jewish Wars and the Destruction of the City of Jerusalem), a 4th-century adaptation of Josephus' (b. 37, d. 100) Jewish Wars. The work was attributed to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

395. Harley MS 82

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82
Title:
Register of Reading Abbey; Usuard, Martyrology; 'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains three parts that were separately produced: I: ff. 1r–3v (Register); II: ff. 4r–34v (Martyrology); III: ff. 35r–104v (Voyage d'outre mer). The martyrology was written in the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. The first pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-14th century
Extent:

1 volume

396. Harley MS 82, ff 1-3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82, ff 1-3
Title:
A register of Reading abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–3v: Three leaves from a register of Abbot Nicholas of Whapelode (r. 1305–28), containing entries for 1305–1311. [ff. 1v-2r are blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 82

397. Harley MS 82, ff 4–34

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82, ff 4–34
Title:
Usuard, Martyrology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r–34v: Usuard, Martyrology, organized by calendar (January through December, ff. 4r–32v) with a second section by the church year (beginning with Advent, ff. 32v–34v). Many sections lacking. Decoration: Large and small initials that alternate in colour between red, blue, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 82

398. Harley MS 82, ff 35-104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82, ff 35-104
Title:
'Sir John Mandeville', Voyage d’outre mer (Latin translation)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 35r–104v: ‘Sir John Mandeville’, Voyage d’outre mer, Latin translation, ending imperfectly. Decoration: A marginal drawing in brown ink (possibly of one of the nails of the Crucifixion) in the margin of f. 35v
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 82

399. Harley MS 101

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 101
Title:
Origen, Commentarium in Canticum Canticorum; Hrabanus Maurus, De institutione clericorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. It was produced in a stylistic period of manuscript production at the abbey that has been dated to between 1150 and 1180. Many of the abbey’s manuscripts from this period contain patristic writings, which is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1150-1180
Extent:

1 volume

400. Harley MS 104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 104
Title:
Stephen Langton, Expositio Libri Duodecim Prophetarum; Gregory the Great, De Cura Pastorali; Richard of St-Victor, Allegoriae Novi Testamenti and De Oratione Dominica; Innocent III, De Missarum Mysteriis and Sermo VI
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century (before c. 1225 and after 1206 or 1215) was probably written for a clerical audience since it contains works that would have helped priests in explaining biblical texts to the laity and instructed them in their duties of pastoral c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

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