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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3044
Title:: St Jerome, Epistulae and other works
Scope & Content:: This large manuscript contains the Epistulae (Letters) by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), the Vita Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome), attributed to Sebastian of Monte Cassino, as well as the famous story of St Jerome and the lion. The manuscript lacks at least one leaf at the beginning, as the op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3061
Title:: Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 52; Lanfranc of Canterbury, De corpore et sanguine domini; Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains theological texts and sermons mainly focusing on the Eucharist. The last text of the manuscript is probably a contemporary addition written by a different scribe, according to Gullick, 'Professional Scribes' (1995). Contents: f. 1r: List of contents, added in the 14th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3063
Title:: Ambrosiaster, In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam; Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentarii in Epistulas Pauli Minores
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38v: Ambrosiaster (fl. 370), In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam (Ambrosiaster's commentary on St Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians), (imperfect), 8 quires are lacking at the beginning: '[...] vincitur quod Apostolus semper sprevit', ending: 'perfectio consum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century-1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3072
Title:: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius, sermons; Prudentius, Cathemerinon; Servius, Commentary on Georgics; Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This volume consists of different parts that were bound together at an early period. The first part (ff. 1r-6r) was written in the second half of the 10th century. The second part (ff. 7r-87r) was produced in the third quarter of the 10th century. The third part (ff. 87r-90v) contains sermons co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3073
Title:: Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David; Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences
Scope & Content:: This manuscript may be the presentation copy of the text given by Nicholas of Clairvaux to count Henry I of Champagne (d. 1181), according to Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence' (1962), p. 163, n. 44. Nicholas of Clairvaux was appointed the head of the Benedictine pri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3079
Title:: Homiliary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-296v: A collection of homilies (sermons) by Haimo of Halberstadt (b. c. 778, d. 853), Bede (b. 672, d. 735), Fulgentius Ferrandus (fl. c. 500), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. c. 340), St Caesarius of Arles (b. c. 468, d. 542) and others, for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3080
Title:: St Augustine, Confessiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), bishop of Hippo, Retractationes (Retractions), beginning: ‘Incipit prologus libri confessionum sancti Augustini episcopi’. ff. 2r-116r: St Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions), beginning: ‘Magnus es domine et laudabilis valde’. [f. 116v is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3083
Title:: St Ambrose, Epistulae, De Obitu Theodosii and De Nabuthe Jezraelita
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves most of St Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397)'s Epistulae (Letters). It also includes two other works by Ambrose: De Obitu Theodosii (On the Death of Theodosius I) and De Nabuthe Jezraelita (On Naboth the Jezreelite). The manuscript may initially have been part of a larger volume ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3095
Title:: Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:: The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3097
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Botulphi; Vitae Tancredi, Torhtredi and Tovae; De Translatione Sanctorum Qui in Thornensi Monasterio Requiescunt; Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci; St Ambrose of Milan, Sermo de Observantia Episcoporum; Ambrose, De Misteriis; Ambrose, De Sacramentis; De Helia et Jejunio; Prologue to the Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Miracles of St Nicholas
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 419/420), followed by saints’ lives and sermons. It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot of Thorney Abbey and three saints at Thorney who were mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century - 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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