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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2429
Title:: A German-Latvian dictionary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-48v: A German-Latvian dictionary with example sentences, entitled: ‘Vocabularium Germanico-Curlandicum’ (f. 1r) or ‘Lellipses Wörter-Büchlein’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latvian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2430
Title:: German prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2431
Title:: Breviary, with a York calendar and other liturgical texts
Scope & Content:: This breviary is a rare surviving example of a late medieval book that is known to have been used in (at least) two parish or local church settings: at the chapel of St Giles’s Hospital near Brompton-on-Swale, and slightly later in the chantry of St Giles, in the chapel of Ravensworth Castle, bo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2432
Title:: Vita Adae et Evae; Tractatus metricus penitentia; Richard Horton, Confessional formulary; Bernard of Clairvaux, De diligendo deo; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De tribus diebus; Tria sunt; Smaragdus, Diadema monachorum, and other theological works
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological works that were copied by 'Richard Horton' in the 15th century. The larger part of the manuscript contains hitherto unknown copies of a guide on Latin prose and poetry known as Tria sunt, based on Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Documentum de modo et ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2433
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Tournai
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-3r: Offsets and sewing holes from pilgrim badges on blank pages. ff. 3v-4r: A table to calculate the date of Easter with an explanation in Middle Dutch. ff. 5r-16v: A calendar, in Middle Dutch, including in red: Sts Veerele (Pharaildis of Ghent), Amant (Ghent), Eloy (Tourn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2434
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-14v: Calendar in Dutch, with a number of saints related to Utrecht including 'Sarijs' [Marius] (19 January). ff. 16r-39r: The Hours of the Holy Virgin: imperfect at the beginning. ff. 40r-72v: The Hours of the Holy Spirit, entitled: 'Hier beghint die hilige gheest getide' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1485
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2435
Title:: A large collection of Latin notes for sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-117v: A large collection of Latin notes and quotations for sermons. Decoration: Paraph markers in red ink throughout.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2436
Title:: Collection of sermons
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a 14th-century collection of sermons for saints' feast days (ff. 17r-168v), with sermons added in the 15th century at the beginning (ff. 1r-14v). Contents: ff. 1r-14v: A collection of sermons; with a previously unrecorded Middle English verse translation of Latin tex...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century-15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2437
Title:: Theodore Beza, Psalm paraphrases
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A page with the tile ‘Paraphrase up de psalmen Davids met de argumenten gemaeckt by Theodorus de bensze getranslateert int neder duitsche’. ff. 2r-4v: Introduction. ff. 5r-355v: Theodore Beza (b. 1519, d. 1605), Psalm paraphrases, translated into Low German.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Low
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2438
Title:: A Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-187v: A Psalter, including a calendar. Among the feasts: Aldegundis (30 January), Oswald (28 February), Walburga (1 May), Elevatio Mecharii (9 May), Médard (Soissons), Bartini abbatis (5 September), Willibrord (7 November); the added (?) entry for Thomas Becket (29 December) ha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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