Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2861
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-72r: Hours of the Virgin with suffrages following Lauds (incomplete; lacking beginning of Lauds and Compline). ff. 72v-73v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning: ‘Te deprecor sanctissima maria’. ff. 73v-77v: Short prayers to the Image of Christ on th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2862
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-62v: The Hours of the Virgin; imperfect. ff. 64r-80r: The Penitential Psalms. ff. 80r-90v: The Litany containing English saints, followed by various prayers to God. ff. 91r-93v: The Mass of St Gregory; imperfect. The introductory rubric is repeated ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2863
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r-13v: Calendar. ff. 14r-20v: the Gospel Lessons. ff. 21r-29v: prayers to the Virgin, Christ and St Bernard. ff. 30r-64v: the Hours of the Virgin. ff. 65r-70v: the Hours of the Cross. ff. 71r-79v: the Penitential Psalms. ff. 80r-84v: the Litany, followed by prayers. ff. 85r-10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1485
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2864
Title:: Breviary, Franciscan Use
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including Nicholas of Tolentino (canonised in 1446) and Bernardino of Siena. f. 7r: Two hymns, beginning 'Primo dierum omnium quo mundus extat conditus', and 'Nocte surgentes vigilemus omnes'. ff. 7v-76r: Ferial Psalter. ff. 76r-79v: Litany. ff. 80r-97r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2865
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r-v: Added prayer to St Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary, in a 16th century hand. ff. 4r-9v: Calendar, in French. ff. 10r-12v: 'Obsecro te', beginning imperfectly. ff. 13r-43r: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 44r-46r: 'Quicumque vult'. ff. 46v-49r: Office of trespasses for M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480-c 1490
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2866
Title:: Recapitulationes veteris et novi testamenti from Petrus Riga's Aurora; benedictions of Praemonstratensian and Cistercian abbots and abbesses; ordination rites for holy orders; benedictions for priests
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Prayer to God, beginning: '[O]mnipotens deus qui unigenitum suum hodierna die in assumpta carne in templo voluit praesentari, benedictionis suae vos munere fultos bonis operibus faciat exornari'. ff. 2r-11r: 'Recapitulationes veteris et novi testamenti' from Petrus Riga (b. c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2867
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: a prayer inscribed in pencil on a piece of paper pasted onto a front flyleaf, beginning 'Curage desperas peccatis territus ullis', perhaps 17th century. ff. 2r-13v: Calendar, in French, with added Arabic numerals, perhaps 17th century. ff. 14r-20v: Gospel readings. ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1420s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2868
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Suffrage to St Barbara, with the rubric: ‘Quicumque factum sancte barbare animam celebraverit et cotidie hanc memoracionem et oracionem martirii eiusdem subsequentem bene et devote dixerit multa tormenta corporis per eius intercessionem evadet et absque confessione et vera...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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

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