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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2875
Title:: Mass of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-14v: 'Missa de beata maria virgine' (Mass of the Virgin Mary). Decoration: 1 historiated initial in colours and gold of a priest and attendant before an altar, combined with a full border with penwork decoration in brown ink, flowers and a scroll (f. 2r). Large initial i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2876
Title:: Book of Hours, Use unidentified
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. f. 7r-11v: Prayers to the Virgin, beginning 'Saluto te sanctissima', 'Obsecro te' and 'O intemerata'. f. 12r-v: Opening of the Gospel of John. ff. 13r-16r: Hours of the Cross. ff. 16v-18r: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 18v-50v: Hours of the Virgin. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1490
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2877
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Tours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, in French, with prayers on ff. 1v and 2v. ff. 13r-18r: Gospel readings. ff. 18v-21v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 21v-22v: The Passion of the Lord according to St John. f. 22v: Prayer, beginning 'Deus qui manus tuas'. ff. 23r-26v: Prayer in French, beginning 'Dou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1490-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2878
Title:: Breviary, Dominican Use
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-7v: Calendar, including, in red: ‘Gregorii’, ‘Gertrudis’, ‘Ambrosii’, ‘translatio Benedicti’, ‘Bonifacio’, ‘Odulphi’, ‘Lebuini’ (two instances), ‘translatio Martini’ (two instances), ‘Jacobi’, ‘Dominici’, ‘Augustini’, ‘Symonis et Jude’, ‘Willibrordi’: and, in brown: ‘Wenslav’,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2879
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-268v: the Psalter. ff. 269r-v: the Magnificat. Decoration: 9 large initials in blue or pink, often with a ribbon pattern, on gold grounds with flower, strawberry, or foliate decoration in the same colour as the body of the letter (ff. 1v, 45r, 72r, 99r, 126r, 160r, 192r, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2880
Title:: Collection of offices and prayers
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Office for the feast of Corpus Christi, entitled: 'In die venerabilis sacramenti'. ff. 8v-14v: Office for the feast of the Visitation, entitled: 'In visitacione beate marie virginis Invitatorium'; with a reading from a sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux ('Ex sermone Bernardi ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2881
Title:: Breviary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-279r: Breviary, begins with a calendar (ff. 4r-18v), followed by the texts of the Breviary (ff. 18v-297r), with the first rubric 'De adventu domini' written below the calendar on the last ruled line on f. 18v. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1v: A prayer phrased...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2882
Title:: Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-61r: A collection of prayers, in both prose and verse, written in several different hands, now imperfect (folios lacking between f. 35 and 36 and between ff. 55 and 56). Includes prayers to: the Virgin Mary, St John, John the Baptist, St Peter, St Paul, the Trinity, St Stephen...
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 2883
Title:: Breviary, Use of the Humiliati
Scope & Content:: Breviary, Use of the Humiliati, including a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) and the Book of Psalms (ff. 7r-78v). Followed by three texts added later in different hands (ff. 398r-402r). f. 397v: inscription by the scribe, Brother Clement de Prata de Caravazio [Caravaggio, Bergamo?] of the Humiliati of Apla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1471
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2884
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11v: Calendar. ff. 13r-20r: Gospel readings. ff. 20r-21v: Eight verses of St Bernard, beginning 'Illumina oculos meos'. f. 21v: Prayer, beginning 'Omnipotens semiterne deus'. ff. 23r-112v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome. ff. 114r-161r: Long Hours of the Cross. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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