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Project / Collection Harley Collection Place St Albans, England Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Harley MS 602

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 602
Title:
Register of St Albans Abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added charters in Latin and English. f. 1v: Ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r–95r: Miscellaneous register of St Albans Abbey, containing rentals, leases, acquittances etc., made before 1396.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 630

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 630
Title:
Gilte Legend
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-365r: Gilte Legend; according to the medieval foliation and content list, the manuscript lacks the first 5 folios, which include the life of St Andrew and part of the life of St Nicholas; ending with the explicit: 'Here endeth the Boke of the life of Seintes called in latyn leg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Harley MS 865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 865
Title:
Ambrose, De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis;Jerome, Contra Jovinianum; and other theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-4v: Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397), De Mysteriis (On Mysteries), beginning imperfectly due to the lack of the opening folio. ff. 4v-16v: Ambrose, De Sacramentis (On the Sacraments). ff. 16v-18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 2624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex