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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2935
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Chartres
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, in French. ff. 13r-15r: Reading from the Gospel of St John. f. 15r-v: Prayer, beginning 'Protector in te sperantium'. ff. 15v-19v: Prayer, beginning 'Obsecro te'. ff. 19v-20v: Prayer, beginning 'Salve regina'. ff. 21r-87r: Hours of the Virgin, mixed wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2936
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 15r-60r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 61r-63r: Hours of the Cross. ff. 64r-66r: Hours of the Holy Spirit. ff. 67r-75r: Penitential Psalms. ff. 75r-79v: Litany. ff. 80r-103r: Office of the Dead. ff. 104r-109v: Suffrages to the Trinity, the Cross, St...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1500-c 1510
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2937
Title:: Cistercian Ordinal
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-86r: Cistercian Ordinal, now imperfect, beginning: ‘Exorcista cum ordinatur'. Includes a litany (ff. 75v-77r), which includes the Sts Mammes (d. c. 275; mainly venerated in France, especially in Langres) and ‘Hyrenee’ or Irenaeus (d. c. 202; patron saint of Lyons); with amendme...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2938
Title:: Order for the consecration of a bishop
Scope & Content:: An order for the consecration of a bishop, produced as an independent ceremonial. Decoration: Miniature of the consecration of a bishop (f. 1v). Large initials in gold on a blue panel. Numerous smaller initials in gold on a blue or red panel. Crosses in gold on a blue or red panel to indicate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1539-c 1542
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2939
Title:: Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
Scope & Content:: This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2940
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: This illuminated Book of Hours is one of only two known surviving products of the collaboration of the workshops of the Boucicaut Hours master (active c. 1390-1430) and of the Rohan master (active c. 1410-1440), who were the leading illuminators in 15th-century Paris. The other Book of Hours tha...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1420
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2941
Title:: Missal
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Table of contents. ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, including: 'Erhardi episcopi' [Erhard of Regensburg] (8 January), 'Fridolini' [Fridolin of Säckingen] (6 March), 'Lonigini' (15 March), 'Gedrudis' [Gertrude of Nivelles] (17 March), 'Arbogasti' [Arbogast] (29 March), Kiliane [Kilian] (8...
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 2942
Title:: Processional, Use of Sarum, with added polyphony
Scope & Content:: Processional of Sarum Use (ff. 5r-118v), rubric: 'Dominica prima adventus domini in aspersione aque dicitur ant.', incipit: '[A]sperges me'; with added polyphony in mensural notation, 15th century, including: ff. 2r-3v: The antiphon 'Salve regina'. f. 4v: The antiphon 'Regina celi'. f. 119r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2943
Title:: Middle Dutch Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-15v: Prayer for communion, with a rubric: ‘Dit gebet selmen lesen als men wil gaen totten heiligen sacrament te ontfanghen’, beginning: ‘O overste priester ende gewaer biscop here ihesu criste die di selven offerste gode dinen vader’. ff. 15v-16r: Pra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1486
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2944
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-12v: calendar; ff. 13r-17r: the Gospel Lessons; ff. 17v-23v: the Hours of the Cross; ff. 24r-82r: the Hours of the Virgin (imperfect); ff. 82v-93v: the Advent Hours; ff. 94r-114v: the Penitential Psalms followed by the litany and prayers; ff. 115r-157v: the Office of the Dead ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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