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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2908
Title:: Sacramentary (the 'Augsburg Sacramentary' or ‘Seeon Sacramentary’)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Added 13th-century prayers. ff. 1v-7r: Calendar. f. 7v: Added 15th-century texts of exorcisms of salt and water. ff. 8v-15r: Canon of the Mass, including an added Mass for the dedication of the church (f. 10r), possibly in a 13th-century hand. ff. 16r-90r: Proper of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 11th century-3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2909
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 2-5: Calendar, with a name of a saint has been excised (f. 4r). ff. 6-142: Psalms; ff. 143-146: Litany; ff. 147-166v: Excerpts from the New Testament. f. 1 is a paper flyleaf pasted to a parchment leaf with various texts in Latin written on the verso. Decoration: 3 large hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
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 2911
Title:: Ordinal and Tonal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-174v: Ordinal and Tonal, Use of Sarum, with musical notation (imperfect at the end). Decoration: 2 large (6- and 5-line) puzzle initials 'P' and 'O' in blue and red with penwork decoration and pen-flourishing (ff. 1r, 107r). Large (2-line) initials in red or blue with penwork...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2912
Title:: Offices from a pontifical and a rituale
Scope & Content:: Contents: A selection of offices from a pontifical and a rituale for the Use of Rome. ff. 1r-16r: Form of the mass celebrated by a bishop, incipit: 'Pontifex missam celebraturus'; includes additional prayers added in the margins by a 16th-century hand: 'Ad caligas' (f. 9v), 'Ad crucem' (f. 10v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2915
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: The illumination of this Book of Hours is attributed to the 'Fastolf Master', a French artist working in England who is named after a copy of Christine de Pisan’s Epitre d’Othea with the Livre des quatre vertus that he illuminated for Sir John Fastolf in 1450 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1440-c. 1460
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2916
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Troyes (with a Parisian calendar)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: Ownership inscription (see Provenance). ff. 3r-14v: Calendar, in French. ff. 15r-19r: Gospel readings (imperfect at the beginning). ff. 19v-22v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 23r-25r: 'O intemerata'. ff. 26r-79v: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 80r-84r: Hours of the Cross. ff. 84v-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1460-c 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2917
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar in French (ff. 2r-12v). ff. 1v, 55r-v, 92r-v, 110v, 114r-v, 118r-v are blank. Decoration: 22 small calendar miniatures in the lateral foliate borders, in colours and gold (ff. 2-12v); 2 small miniatures for August missing after f. 8. 10 full-page...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c.1480-c.1490
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2918
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An added rondeau in French, 15th/16th century. ff. 3r-14v: Calendar. ff. 15r-18v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 18v-22v: Gospel readings. ff. 22v-23v: Prayer to the Virgin Mary, beginning 'Cum appropinquasset Ihesus'. ff. 25r-86v: Hours of the Virgin. ff. 87r-99v: Penitential ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1480-c. 1490
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2919
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-2: Parchment flyleaves. ff. 3r-14v: Calendar in French, with numerous added saints' days, late 16th-early 17th century. ff. 15r-16v: Reading from the Gospel of St John, followed by the prayer 'Protector in te sperantium'. ff. 17r-18r: Prayer to St Mary Magdalene, beginnin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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