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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 95
Title:: Transcript of the Black Book of the Exchequer
Scope & Content:: Transcript of the ‘Black Book of the Exchequer’ (‘Liber Niger Parvus Scaccarij’), including the will of Henry II (f. 1r-v). Compiled by Simonds d’Ewes from a 13th century volume. Contains treaties, conventions, charters and various other official documents relating to the time of Henry I, Henry ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 96
Title:: Roger of Howden, Vita Ricardi I; Chronicon de Lanercost, 1274-1318; Onufrius Patarinus, De comitiis imperatoriis liber
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a miscellany of three parts (ff. 1-118; 121-180; 182-218). Contents: ff. 1r-118r: Vita Ricardi I; excerpted from Roger of Howden’s Annales; copied in the late 16th century. ff. 121-180r: Chronicon de Lanercost, 1274-1318 (History of Edward I and Edward II), imperfect; copi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 100
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r–8v: Calendar, including various English saints: Wulstan, Cuthbert and his translation, Edward, Dunstan, Aldhelm, Edmund, Etheldreda, Kenelm, Oswald, Cuthbert, Wulfran, translation of Wenefrede, and in red, translation of Swythune, Margaret, Mary Magdalene, Anne, translation of Edward, Gre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 102
Title:: Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales; John of Genoa, Catholicon (extract); Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini; Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Nicholaus de Aquaevilla, Semones dominicales. f. 133v: Extract from John of Genoa, Catholicon, on the seven petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. ff. 135r-145v: Pseudo-Bonaventure, De passione domini. ff. 145v-149r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, Speculum peccatoris. Decoration:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 103
Title:: William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis, and other theological texts
Scope & Content:: f. 1*v: Table of contents, added late 15th century. ff. 1r–70v: William de Lanicea, Dieta salutis. ff. 71r–81r: Two tables of contents to Dieta salutis, the second arranged in distinctiones. ff. 81v–84r: Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (labelled in a contemporary note as Seneca, Proverbia). ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 105
Title:: Compendium of saints’ lives
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a compendium of saints’ lives related to Canterbury. A main part is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury and St Mildred including their lives, miracles and the translation of their relics written by Goscelin of St Bertin. It includes also Goscelin's Libellus contra Inanes S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 106
Title:: Collection of theological texts
Scope & Content:: A theological collection of 157 texts, beginning with three tables of contents (ff. 2*r-3*v, 4*v-5*v), followed by short texts and extracts from authors including Augustine, Bede, Jerome, Hugh of St Vitor, Robert Grosseteste, and several anonymous writers, including a lecture on tithes (ff. 1r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 107
Title:: Ælfric, Grammar and Glossary; grammatical dialogue
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-71v: Ælfic, Grammar and Glossary, imperfect; ff. 71v-72v: A grammatical dialogue on declensions; f. 72v: A short text beginning, ‘[Christu]s regnat. Crist rixað', ending, 'Imperator. Casere’; f. 72v: A Latin glossary of names of birds (20 lines) and fish (2 lines) (f. 72v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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