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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2893
Title:: Gospel lectionary with collects, collections of prayers, blessings, masses and a calendar
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A collect for Christmas: ‘Deus qui hanc sacratissimam noctem veri luminis fecisti illustratione clarescere . da quaesumus ut cuius lucis misteria in terra cognovimus . eius quoque gaudijs in celo perfruam[ur]. Qui tecum’. ff. 1v-7r: A Calendar with astronomical tables on ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2894
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 7r: Prayer to God: ‘[D]eus qui nos pastores in populo vocari voluisti. presta quesumus: ut per hec que humano ore dicimus. in tuis oculis esse valeamus. Per dominum nostrum iesum’. f. 8r: Prayer to God, beginning: ‘Omnipotens sempiterne deus meritis et precibus tue matris’. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2895
Title:: Psalter ('La Charité Psalter')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the so-called 'La Charité Psalter', named after the Cluniac priory of La Charité-sur-Loire where the manuscript was produced at the end of the 12th century. A prayer for a community's abbess on f. 90v suggests that the Psalter was written for a nunnery affiliated with th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2896
Title:: Missal, with musical notation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-139r: Missal, with musical notation; with marginal instructions for songs (with musical notation), prayers and postures (ff. 25r, 26r, 27v, 28v, 57v, 58r) added by a 16th-century hand. ff. 139v-140r: An index of liturgical feasts, entitled: 'Index eorum que in hoc opusculo tr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2897
Title:: Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:: Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part 1 (ff. 154r-452v) is the summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearles and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which formed originally a single v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1410-c 1440
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2897, ff 1r-153v
Title:: Psalter (addition to the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-115r: Ferial Psalter, imperfect at the beginning, starts at the end of Psalm 2, incipit: 'via iusta'. ff. 116r-152r: Common of Saints. ff. 152v-153v are ruled but blank. Decoration: 7 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and thre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425-c 1440
Extent:: 153 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2897, ff 154r-452v
Title:: Breviary ('the Breviary of John the Fearles and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:: The summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearless and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which originally formed a single volume together with Add. MS 35311 containing the winter portion. The text of the Sanctorale in Add. MS 35311 breaks off at f. 388v, where the catchword indicates its...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1410-1419
Extent:: 209 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2898
Title:: Evangeliary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-43r: Evangeliary, featuring texts for the feasts of St Odile [Odilia], patron saint of Alsace, on f. 16v; St Norbert of Xanten (founder of the Premonstratensian Order and Archbishop of Magdeburg) on f. 24v; St Afra, patron of Augusburg, on f. 31r; and a reference to St Ulrich o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2900
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Added prayers to the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Holy Cross and for the Communion ('Ego sum panis vivus'), suffrages to saints, the Short Hours of the Holy Spirit (f. 3r-v), and various prayers including prayers for the dead (ff. 3v-4r). ff. 5r-16v: A calendar, includi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: The third decade of the fifteenth century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2901
Title:: Coronation order for the king of England
Scope & Content:: Coronation order for the king of England of the 4th recension, presumably composed for the coronation of King Edward II of England in 1308 (see Bond 1884-1894, pl. 196 and Hughes 1990). Incipit: 'Die quo novis rex est consecrandus' (f. 1v); 'Ordo novum regem in regno constituendi (f. 3r). Includ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1308
Extent:: 1 volume

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