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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2713
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2750
Title:: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2770
Title:: Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'. ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ill...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2829
Title:: Pauline Epistles
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Pauline Epistles. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A table itemizing the Pauline Epistles; added in the 16th century. Decoration: Large initials in red with foliate motifs. Smaller initials in red (some oxidised). Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2848
Title:: Prayer book
Scope & Content:: This composite prayer book consists of four parts (ff. 1-30, 31-55, 56-59, 60-70) that were produced separately by different scribes. The style of decoration of the second part suggest that the whole manuscript originates from Germany or the Low Countries. Contents: ff. 1r-26r: The Fifteen Oe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2854
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents f. 2r: A 'bleeding table', in which Golden Numbers (1-19) are correlated with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with indications of their influence: 'Aries bonum - Thaurus malum - Gemini malum [etc.]'. ff. 3r-14v: Latin Calendar with Cisioianus; the name of each month is translated into Ge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2870
Title:: Fragment of a Sequentiary for the Temporale and Sanctorale with added chants for moveable and Marian masses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a fragment of a Sequentiary (ff. 1r-27r), containing Sequences for the Temporale and Sanctorale, with chants for moveable and Marian feasts (ff. 26v-31v), added in a German-speaking area. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: The [Christmas] Sequence: 'Letabundus exulted fidelis choru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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 2910
Title:: Collectar
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: List of contents, with an introduction: 'Libellus iste qui collectarius dicitur eo quod propter collectas sive orationes habendas in promptu principaliter scriptus est vel quia in unum eo sunt collecta ea que dicenda sunt a sacerdote ex officium misse'. ff. 2v-8v: Calendar, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2953
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-9v: Calendar. ff. 11r-15r: Alphabetical index of Psalms. ff. 15v-18v: 'Mapheus Vegius Laudensis‏ [Maffeo Vegio (b. 1407, d. 1458)] de perseverancia religionis. libro V. Cap. IIJ. De Psalmodia'. ff. 21r-159v: Book of Psalms, including Psalm 151, entitled: 'Hic Psalmus pro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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