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861. Harley MS 2423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2423
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici, ad Ludovicum Regum Francorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: Vincent of Beauvais, Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici, ad Ludovicum Regum Francorum. Decoration: 1 large initial in red with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with reserve designs. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

862. Harley MS 2432

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

863. Harley MS 2435

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

864. Harley MS 2436

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

865. Harley MS 2438

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

866. Harley MS 2442

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2442
Title:
A Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-432v: A Bible, without the Psalms, imperfect. Decoration: Puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in blue or purple and red at the beginning of each book. Smaller initials in red with purple or blue pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Running titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

867. Harley MS 2445

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2445
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This prayer book was made for a female user as is indicated by prayers throughout the manuscript that have been grammatically phrased for a woman. This could account for the manuscript's high number of Marian prayers, including the Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin. It may also explain an un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

868. Harley MS 2447

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2447
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar; including English saints Wulstan and Edward (x3, once in red), Cuthbert, Dunstan, Edmund (x3, once in red), Æthelthryth [Etheldreda] (x2, once in red), Swithun, Kenelm, and Winifred. ff. 7r-78v: The Hours of the Virgin; lacking the beginning of Matins (after f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1470
Extent:
1 volume

869. Harley MS 2515

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2515
Title:
Eberhard of Béthune, Graecismus with marginal gloss, and other grammatical treatises
Scope & Content:
A composite volume of grammatical treatises, comprising three different manuscripts all datable to the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-27v: Anonymous ['Robertus' of Paris], Summa breve sit, beginning: 'Breve sit quodcumque laboras. non enim magnum est in pauc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

870. Harley MS 2519

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2519
Title:
Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Preface. ff. 3v-13v: Table of contents. ff. 14r-80v: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; ending: 'Explicit liber Avicij Mansii Severini Boecij Exconsularis Ordinarij Patricij de consolacione philosophie - Magister W. fferon'. Decoration: Added ink sketch of a bear...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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