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3441. Harley MS 5037

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5037
Title:
Breviary for Franciscan use
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-25r: Psalter, begins imperfectly in Psalm 101, incipit: ‘ut sedeant mecum’; with Litany, including St Thomas Becket and St Francis. ff. 25r-28v: Office of the Dead. ff. 28v-30v: Ordo Missae, imperfect at the end. ff. 31r-174r: Temporale, rubric: ‘Ad honore omn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3442. Harley MS 5040

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5040
Title:
English alchemical work based on Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50v: An acephalous alchemical work, imperfect at the beginning due to the loss of folios, following the structures of the twelve grados and the concluding Recapitulatio in Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum; attributed in a poem at the end to an author from Cirencester: 'H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3443. Harley MS 5041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5041
Title:
A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3444. Harley MS 5042

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5042
Title:
David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et perfectorum libri tres
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Formula novitiorum, a work on monastic asceticism by David of Augsburg (d. 1272), a Franciscan friar. The work survives in almost 400 manuscripts, but is not identified in the only edition of the work: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (1899)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3445. Harley MS 5044

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5044
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Brevium; Robert Grosseteste, Rules for Household and Estate Management (Les Reules Seynt Robert), Rules for his Own Household, Statutes for the Diocese of Lincoln, Treatise on Confession; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript predominantly contains copies of well-known English statutes of the 13th century, but it also includes previously unknown copies of Anglo-Norman and Latin works by the 13th-century authors Robert Grosseteste (b. c. 1170, d. 1253) and Walter of Henley (fl. c. 1260). It includes hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

3446. Harley MS 5049

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5049
Title:
Book of Hours for the use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-106v: Book of Hours for the use of Rome. Decoration: 24 small miniatures forming partial borders, in colours and gold, for the calendar (ff. 2r-7v). 14 full-page miniatures in architectural frames, in colours and gold (ff. 8r, 13r, 16r, 30r, 39r, 42r, 45r, 48r, 51r, 55r, 66r, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Undetermined
Date Range:
c 1510-c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

3447. Harley MS 5051

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5051
Title:
Extracts partly compiled by Robert Yeamans (d.1665) (see Fontes p.365) from Greek and Latin authors. The authors extracted are Cicero (ff. 3-4v, 28-31v, 101-103v), Persius (ff. 31-32, 103v-104), Terence (ff. 5-6v, 33-45v, 104v-106v), Horace (ff. 6v-7, 46, 107), Cyprian (ff. 83-87), Plutarch (ff. 8-27v, 46v-82v), and St John Chrysostom (ff. 88-100v, 107v-114) using H. Savile's 1610-1612 edition of Chrysostom.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3448. Harley MS 5054

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5054
Title:
The direct manner and order of Proceeding in Causes and Suytes depending in the high Court of Chancery; Plato, Apologia Socratis; William of Auxerre, Summa aurea; and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of five parts that were produced separately. The first three parts (ff. 1-30; ff. 31-54; ff. 55-54) were written in England in the 17th century. The fourth part (ff. 79-200) was written in England in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The fifth part (ff. 202-309) was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3449. Harley MS 5057

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5057
Title:
Notes and commentary on Grotius De Jure Belli ac Pacis. Part 1.
Scope & Content:
Manuscript notes and commentary on Hugo Grotius De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War and Peace). First of three volumes with continuous original foliation (the others are Harley MS 1838 and Harley MS 5254). f. 1*: ‘Notae et scholia in Hugonem Grotium de Jure Belli & Pacis. Pars prima’....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3450. Harley MS 5059

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5059
Title:
Treatise by Metrophanes Kritopoulos on the Eastern Orthodox Church
Scope & Content:
Treatise by Metrophanes Kritopoulos on the Eastern Orthodox Church, and other notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1617-1623
Extent:

25 folios

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