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891. Harley MS 2869

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2869
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-9v: Calendar (with English saints); featuring an Middle English note for determining the date of Ash Wednesday in February with the lunar calendar on f. 4v: ‘This is to weting þat þe furste wendisday in þe newe mone of feverȝer is ever more axwendisday’. ff. 10r-47v: The Hours...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

892. Harley MS 2874

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2874
Title:
Coniuratio malignorum spirituum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a previously unidentified copy of the Coniuratio malignorum spirituum, a book with instructions for exorcising demoniacs of which 30 editions were published in Rome and Italy between c. 1480 and c 1500. This appears to be the only extant English manuscript copy of the te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1480-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

893. Harley MS 2911

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2911
Title:
Ordinal and Tonal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-174v: Ordinal and Tonal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation (imperfect at the end). Decoration: 2 large (6- and 5-line) puzzle initials 'P' and 'O' in blue and red with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 107r). Large (2-line) initials in red or blue with penwork...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

894. Harley MS 2925

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2925
Title:
Expositio sequentiarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-92r: Expositio sequentiarum; imperfect due to loss of folios, with the first complete instruction beginning: 'ista sequencia cantatur secunda dominica adventus domini'; ending: 'Expliciunt Sequencie bene exposite'. ff. 92r-92v: A glossary, mainly in Latin but occasionally in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

895. Harley MS 2937

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

896. Harley MS 2945

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2945
Title:
Processional
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-171r: Processional, imperfect at the beginning; containing a litany, listing various English saints on ff. 57v-58r, 58v, and 134v-135r, including Aldhelm, Birinus, Edith, Edmund, Edward, Oswald, and Etheldreda, Swithun (ff. 167v-168); featuring musical notation on four-line red...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

897. Harley MS 2951

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2951
Title:
Hymnal, use of Sarum, with a calendar
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript containing a hymnal in two parts (ff. 1r-117r and ff. 118r-125v) that were probably written in the 4th quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century. It is followed by a calendar (ff. 126-131v) that was produced in the early 14th century; and a lea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

898. Harley MS 2956

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2956
Title:
Ordinal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-46v, 50r-122r: Ordinal, Use of Sarum, with litanies including English saints such as Aethelwold, Cuthbert, Dunstan, Edmund and Swithun. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 47r-49v: Added paper booklet with additional texts to the Ordinal, in Latin, including 'Ordo c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

899. Harley MS 2973

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2973
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
A composite prayer book with materials from two 16th-century prayer books that were produced produced but contain identical prayers: ff. 4r-64v and ff. 65r-121v respectively. It is possible that one is a copy of the other. Contents: Part 1: f. 4r: 'A prayer called Ave rex'. f. 4v: 'A praye...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530s-1550s
Extent:
1 volume

900. Harley MS 2976

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2976
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, containing numerous English saints; including, in red: 'Ambrosii', 'Augustini primi angelorum', 'Barnabe', 'Translatio sancti Thome', 'Anne', 'Remigii et Bavonis' (Flanders), 'Translatio sancti Edwardi', 'Martini'; and in brown: 'Vulfranni', 'Batildis', 'Cedde', '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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