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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2824
Title:: Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-576r: Bible, including the Psalms (ff. 242r-269r) and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 543r-576r). The manuscript contains a few later additions: Marginal annotations throughout the manuscript. f. 576v: Additions in different hands, including a list with biblical ref...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1230-c 1250
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2825
Title:: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-370v: Bible, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names, imperfect; the text is missing the beginning of II Chronicles. Includes the Psalms (ff. 162r-180v) and the Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 344-370v); with the inscription on f. 343v: 'Exaucto libro sic laus et gloria...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2826
Title:: Four Gospels with canon tables, prologues and capitula (the 'Eller Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologues; ff. 4r-9v: Canon tables; ff. 10r-149r: The four Gospels with capitula and prefaces; f. 150v: Added 10th-century list made by Hatto of the furnishings and books of the monastery of Eller. The list includes a codex edged with silver and ivory, containing the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2827
Title:: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-458r: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 426r-458r). The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 459r-460v: Lections for liturgical feasts; added in the 14th century. ff. 460v-461r: A text on the life of Secundus the Silent (fl. 2nd century), beg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2828
Title:: Bible, including Jerome’s preface, and Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum
Scope & Content:: Bible with Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Explanations of Hebrew names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a short Latin explanation, attributed to Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1228). f. 1v: table of contents, 14th century. ff. 2r-4v: Jerome’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2829
Title:: Pauline Epistles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Pauline Epistles. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A table itemizing the Pauline Epistles; added in the 16th century. Decoration: Large initials in red with foliate motifs. Smaller initials in red (some oxidised). Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2830
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins. ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 5v-58v: Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2831
Title:: Gospelbook
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-92v: Gospelbook; ff. 2r-3r are fully written but badly faded. The manuscript contains later additions: Passages throughout the manuscript are frequently annotated in red or brown ink by the scribe of the main text. The entries contain calendrical information and some liturgic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2832
Title:: Bible, without the Psalms, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-149r: Bible, without the Psalms, with the Interpretation of Hebrew Names. The Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 2r-12v) features between the prologue to Genesis (f. 1v) and Genesis (ff. 13r-20r). The manuscript contains a few later additions: Marginal annotations throughout...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2833
Title:: Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the first volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Genesis to the Book of Job with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents. The manuscript was preserved at a religious house, as i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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