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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3145
Title:: Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains anonymous sermons, and sermons that have be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3667
Title:: Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3859
Title:: Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Welsh
Date Range:: Early 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3941/2
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4751
Title:: A bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a bestiary from the 'second family' of bestiaries (see James, The Bestiary (1928), pp. 15-16) with additions from Gerald of Wales's (b. c. 1146, d. 1223) Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) on Irish birds. Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Bestiary, beginning: 'Bestiaru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century-Early 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5237
Title:: Boethius, De institutione musica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione musica (On the Principles of Music), imperfect (Book 1, 23-Book 5, 8) beginning at the chapter 23 of the first book: 'Hoc igitur modo per singular tetrachorda in generum proprietates partitio facta est', ending at the chapter 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D II
Title:: Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 D IV
Title:: A calendar with computus tables; Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a calendar followed by computus tables and works related to the reckoning of time: Helperic of Auxerre, De computo, Bede the Venerable, De temporum ratione and Bede the Venerable, Epistola ad Wicthedum de aequinoctio vel de paschae celebratione. Helperic'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 E XX
Title:: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio; Galen, De arte curativa ad Glauconem; Pseudo-Galen, Ad Glauconem liber tertius; Liber Aureliani; Liber Esculapii; De podagra; Pseudo-Oribasius, commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorims;Medicina Plinii; Gargilius Martialis, Medicina ex oleribus et pomis; Liber dietarum diversorum medicorum; Excerpt from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; an anonymous Antidotary; and medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32r: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio and based on an early translation of Hippocrates's work dating to the 6th century, beginning: 'Incipit expositio Aptalionis in .vii. libros Aforismorum Ypocratis. Vita brevis ars autem prolixa, tempus vero velox'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:: Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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