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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020
Title:: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia; Bede, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi; Vite Sanctorum; Paul the Deacon of Naples translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus including a fragment of a Troper; a sequence and responsory with musical notation
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three main parts gathered together at an early period (see Provenance), it includes a fragment of a Troper (f. 35r). Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, 1:13, Homilia in natali Benedicti Abbatis (Homily on Benedict Biscop), beginning: 'Sermo Beati bed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 1-35
Title:: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Historia Abbatum; Vita Sanctissimi Ceolfridi
Scope & Content:: The Life of Ceolfrid contains an account of the making of Ceolfrid's three great pandects (f. 27r). The Life, written by an anonymous monk, survives in only two manuscripts. Harley MS 3020 is the earliest (see Backhouse, The Making of England (1991)). Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Bede, Homiliae in Eva...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 36-94
Title:: Vitae Sanctorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 37r-45r: Passio Sancti Caelesti pape (Passion of Pope St Celestine), beginning: 'Incipit passio Sancti Calesti Papae mense octobrio die xiiii. Temporibus Macrini et Alexandri incendio divino concremata est'. ff. 45v-62r: Vita Sancti Stephani martyris et pontificis (Life of St St...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 95-132
Title:: Passio Sancte Juliane; Paul the Deacon of Naples, translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus,
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 96r-112r: Passio Sancte Juliane (Passion of St Juliana of Nicomedia), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sancte Iuliane martyre quod est idus februarii initium Nicomedia sub Maximiano imperatore. Tempore illo quidan senator nomine Eleusius, amicus Maximiani imperatoris'. ff. 113r-132r: P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3023
Title:: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Peristephanon and part of Hamartigenia; anonymous explanation of poetic metres and letter on the death of Sigon, abbot of Saint-Florent de Saumur; letters by and from Berengar of Tours and Fulbert of Chartres
Scope & Content:: This manuscript primarily contains works by the Latin Christian poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day), Peristephanon (Crowns of the Martyrs), and the final part of Hamartigenia (The Origin of Sin), all glossed and annotated in the 12th century....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3026
Title:: Pseudo-Haimo of Halberstadt, Super Apocalypsim expositio
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes the Super Apocalypsim expositio (Exposition on the Apocalypse) spuriously attributed to Haimo of Halberstadt (d. 853). Most of the text was written in the 10th century (ff. 3r-147v); the beginning and the end of the text were added later, in the early 12th century (ff. 1v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3027
Title:: Augustine of Hippo (and Pseudo-Augustine), various theological works; Prosper of Aquitaine, Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Vincentianarum; sermon collection with texts by Pseudo-Augustine, Pseudo-Eusebius and Origen; Paulinus of Aquileia, Liber Exhortationis ad Quendam Comitem
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century English manuscript contains a collection of sermons, and theological writings by and spuriously attributed to the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), and his disciple Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, c. 455). The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produced ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3030
Title:: Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two commentaries on the Pauline epistles written respectively by Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254) and St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). This volume was produced in the 2nd half of the 11th century in Western Germany, perhaps Paderborn. Fragments from a 9th-century text of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3033
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-124v: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), beginning: 'Reverentissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servuus servorum'; imperfect ending (book 5, chapter 46): 'quia tabescentem mentem sua pena sauceat, quam felic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3034
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de passione domini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Excerpts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies)books VI, VIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX, with added titles in the margins (ff. 9v-10r). For detailed contents, see Steinová 'Innovating Knowledge' online. ff. 11v-58r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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