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2421. 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

2422. Harley MS 2448

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2448
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 14r-93r: Hours of the Virgin Mary ('Officium sancta marie virginis secundum consuetudinem romane curie'). ff. 94r-153v: Office of the Dead ('Officium in agenda mortuorum'). ff. 154r-189v: Hours of the Passion ('Officium sacratissimae passonis domini nos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1480
Extent:

1 volume

2423. Harley MS 2449

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2449
Title:
An office book, providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year
Scope & Content:
An office book providing texts for the Divine Office on feast days in the summer half of the liturgical year. It is not a full breviary and it appears to lack lections and music. Contents: ff. 1r-18v: A calendar with added obits (see Provenance). ff. 19v-118r: Temporale (from Easter to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

2424. Harley MS 2450

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2450
Title:
Breviary, Use of Le Mans
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is one of only six known surviving liturgical manuscripts than can be localised to the diocese of Le Mans (see Davis, 'Canons, Huguenots, Movie Stars, and Missionaries', p. 297, n. 2). It has suffered later damage and excision of several leaves, as well as the excision of some in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2425. Harley MS 2451

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2451
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-270v: Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina (A doctrinal compendium). Decoration: Large white vine initial in colours (f. 1r). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 31v, 41v, 47r, 49r, 61r, 65v, 68v, etc.), occasionally with reserved lines. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2426. Harley MS 2452

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2452
Title:
William of Jumièges, De Epistolaribus Modis; Alberic of Monte Cassino, Breviarium de dictamine; grammatical treatises
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: William of Jumièges, De Epistolaribus Modis, imperfect. ff. 2r-7r: Alberic of Monte Cassino, Breviarium de dictamine, imperfect. ff. 8r-9v: a grammatical treatise based on Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae (sections from Book 11-12). ff. 10r-26r: a grammatical treatise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2427. Harley MS 2453

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2453
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-211v: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Tragoediae. Decoration: Ink drawing of a hunting scene (boar hunt) drawn in the space left below the text (ff. 54v-55r). Large initials in red and/or brown ink with crowned figures and various motifs extending into the margin (ff. 2r, 23v), or made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1435
Extent:
1 volume

2428. Harley MS 2454

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2454
Title:
Commentaries on T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes commentaries on eight comedies of Plautus: ff. 1r-23r: Commentary on the Amphitryon, incipit: 'Ut vos in vostris pro introductione huius comedie que inscribitur Amphitrio notandum est quod [thebis] fuit quidam princeps.' This commentary is also included in Biblioteca Ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2429. Harley MS 2455

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2455
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae; Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (fragments); Gabrio Zamorei's epitaph for Giovanni Visconti; an epitaph for Mehmed II
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-86r: Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae, preceded by an accessus ad auctorem (ff. 1*r-3*v). ff. 88r-88v, 90r, 90v, 91r, 91v, 92r: Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (verses from Book III, 480-516 et passim). A single line has been added at the top of 90r, 91r, 91v, 92r, presu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2430. Harley MS 2456

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2456
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-152v: Publius Terentius Afer, Comoediae. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with red and purple penwork decoration (the blue pigment has flaked off) (f. 1r). 1 large initial in blue with red pen-flourishing (f. 26r). Smaller initials in blue with red penwork dec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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