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1. Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244

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Cotton MS Galba E IV, ff 187–244
Title:
A collection of scientific texts
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains a number of scientific and medical texts. Among them, there is the earliest surviving copy of the De Aere, Aqua et Regionibus (The Book on Water, Air and the Regions) by Hippocrates (b. c. 460 BC, d. c. 380 BC) and the only extant copy of the chapter entitled...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Galba E IV

2. Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129

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Cotton MS Otho A VI, ff 1–129
Title:
Old English translation of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
This is the only surviving copy of the Old English prose and verse translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, with alternating sections in prose and verse. Parts of the text that are now damaged were recorded in Junius's notebook (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 12). Both this manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho A VI

3. Harley MS 487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 487
Title:
A Psalter with the Hours of the Holy Spirit
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar with astronomical information; featuring additional saints added in the late 15th- or early 16th-century. ff. 7r-177r: The Psalter. ff. 177r-193v: Canticles, hymns and Athanasian creed (Quicumque Vult). ff. 193v-200v: Litany and prayers; featuring St Bridget ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 1118

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Harley MS 1118
Title:
Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-218v, 220v-289r: Registrum brevium. Including a list of contents (ff. 1r-10r); beginning on f. 13r: 'Edwardus dei gracia Rex Anglie Dominus Hibernie Dux Aquitanie Ballivis suis Lincolniensis salutem precipimus vobis quod sine dilatione plenum rectum teneatis Ade de Cerleton. de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1785
Title:
Astronomical texts and tables; John Somer, Kalendarium; the Statute of the Forest of Waltham; an extract from Palladius Rutilis, De Agricultura; a treatise by Nicholas Bollarde on the ordering of trees; notes on agricultural matters
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: An astronomical table with, for each month of a year, 4-9 columns and 31 rows with Arabic numbers in brown or red ink. f. 3v: A Middle English astronomical text for calculating the epact, beginning: 'Yf thou wilt perfitly and brefly know the tru Age of the mone . whan so ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2336

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Harley MS 2336
Title:
The Pore Caitif
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-137v: The Pore Caitif. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A letter in Englsh dated to 1536: 'Bettar it ys for all howsold ffor to hold ffor the [nigt]ly yn brestyn in ffetars off gold cosyn Rosa [...] yn my best [...] I hartely Recom[m]en [sic] me wonto ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2349

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Harley MS 2349
Title:
Collection of canon law texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22v: 'Constitutiones Oxonie'. ff. 22v-23r: 'Constitutiones Domini Ottobonis super Decimis et Nutrimentis animalium'. ff. 23r-54r: 'Constitutiones Ottobonis, miseratione Divina, Sancti Adriani Diaconi Cardinalis, Apostolice Sedis Legati; ad perpetuam Rei memoriam'. ff. 54r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1341-c 1350
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2787

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2787
Title:
Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Missal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation; damaged and beginning and ending imperfectly; beginning with a calendar (ff. 1r-6v) with numerous English saints, including, in red: Wulstani, Edwardi, Cuthberte, Ricardi, Georgii, Dunstani, Aldelmi, translation of Edmund, Barn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1410
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 2813

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2813
Title:
Bible, including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names, with a missal between Psalms and Proverbs
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-504r: Bible, imperfect at the beginning and lacking the opening of Genesis; including the Psalms and Interpretation of the Hebrew Names (ff. 485r-504r); and a booklet (ff. 227r-236v) containing texts for the liturgy between that has been inserted between the Psalms and Proverbs...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2894

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