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151. Harley MS 50

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 50
Title:
Glossed Gospel of Mark
Scope & Content:
Glossed Gospel of Mark, incipit: 'Marcus evangelista dei et petri in baptismate filius' Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red with red and blue pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 2r). Small initials in red or blue. Paraphs in brown. Marginal decoration in brown, including of a bird (f. 36r).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

152. Harley MS 51

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 51
Title:
Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Jacobus Palladinus de Theramo, Consolatio peccatorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-105v: Guido delle Colonne ['de Columnis' or 'de Columna'], Historia destructionis Troiae (A History of the Destruction of Troy) or Historia troiana, in 35 books with a prologue, epilogue and colophon. Prologue begins, ‘Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruent nonnulla tamen iamd...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 volume

153. Harley MS 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 52
Title:
Constitutiones clementinae and other constitutiones; theological, ecclesiastical and homiletic texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: Constitutiones clementinae (Clementine Constitutions). ff. 24r-42v: Several ecclesiastical and homiletic texts. ff. 43r-81v: Several constitutiones. ff. 81v-128v: Theological and ecclesiastical texts. Decoration: Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

154. Harley MS 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 53
Title:
Brut chronicle; a genealogy of the kings of Britain
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: a genealogy of the kings of Britain from Adam to Henry VI ff. 14r-164v: the Brut chronicle. The manuscript contains later additions: f. 1r-1v: various verses and pen-trials. [ff. 12r-13r are blank]. Decoration: 1 full-page coat of arms and motto ascribed to the Stoke...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

155. Harley MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 54
Title:
Roger of Howden, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-37v: Roger of Howden [Hoveden] (d. 1201/2), Chronica [895-1121]; here with the title (in a later hand) ‘Hystoria Saxonum et Anglorum’; beginning ‘In exordio huius operis genealogiam regum Norhtanhimbrorum libet demonstrare’. Decoration: Small red initials throughout. Manicule...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

156. Harley MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55
Title:
Anglo-Saxon miscellany including medical remedies and Anglo-Saxon laws by Edgar and Cnut
Scope & Content:
The volume is made up of fragments from two different manuscripts. The first fragment (ff. 1r-4v; unit A) probably formed the end of the original manuscript, and includes: Bald, Leechbook, book 2, chapter 59 (ff. 1r-3r); Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975) (ff. 3v-4v); Oswald, archbishop of Yo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

157. Harley MS 55, f 4v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55, f 4v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Oswald, archbishop of York (972-992), a statement relating to alienated lands in Otley, Ripon and Sherburn-in-Elmet and of lands obtained for York by Archbishop Oscytel (d. 1071), Oswald's predecessor; with additions possibly in the hand of Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (1003-1016) and archbisho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1003-1023
Extent:
1 folio.

158. Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55, ff 1r-3r
Title:
Scope & Content:
Bald's Leechbook (20 remedies), imperfect, incipit: 'Wið þære heal Fdeadan adle and hwanon seo cume seo adl cymð on þa swiðran healfe'; explicit: 'wæteres bollan / Fulne to gedrincanne'. The text corresponds to chapter 59 of book 2 of the 'Laecebok' or Leechbook, copied by Cild for Bald at the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
3 folios.

159. Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55, ff 3v-4v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Laws of King Edgar (r. 959-975), with the Latin title 'Lege Eadgari' added in the upper margin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
2 folios.

160. Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 55, ff 5r-13v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Laws of King Cnut (r. 1016-1035). Decoration: Large initials (2-3 lines; ff. 5, 7v, 13) in red, paragraph initials touched in red, rubric (f. 5r) in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
9 folios.

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