Project / Collection: England and France 700-1200 Project / Archive Reference (shelfmark): Harley MS 1-7661 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3098
Title:: Liber Pancrisis
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest of three existing copies of the Liber Pancrisis (The All-Golden Book) (the other manuscripts are Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale, 19 and Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes (olim Bibliothèque Municipale), Fonds ancien 425). This is an anthology...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1170
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3104
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri octo (Commentary on Matthew in eight books), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v) and capitula (ff. 1v-2v), beginning of the Prologue: 'Memor itaque illi precepti quod per vas sibi aptum olim sapientia protulit'. ff. 3r-157v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3107
Title:: St Augustine, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: The Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). Written in Western or North-Western France (ex info. Michael Gullick), the manuscript was given by the bishop of Lucca to the Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca. Contents: ff. 1*v-147v: Augustine, Epistolae, beginning: ‘D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3145
Title:: Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains anonymous sermons, and sermons that have be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3213
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew; Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark; Christian of Stavelot, Expositio in Matthaeum; St Augustine, Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini; patristic excerpts; St Augustine, Sermo de scripturis veteribus et novis et de trinitate contra Arrianos; anonymous treatise on heresy; Hexametric verses on the canonical hours
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a compilation of several commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, one by Remigius of Auxerre (b. c. 841, d. 908) and others attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Christian of Stavelot (fl. 865). The works form the basis for the 12th-century systemati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3241
Title:: Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Sententiae (Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160), a systematic compilation of theological texts, that was extremely popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume also contains the diagram of a tree of consanguinity, illustrating the relationships be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3250
Title:: Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
Scope & Content:: A commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. Although the manuscript's origin is unknown, its provenance indicates that it was produced in England. Contents: ff. 1r-193r: Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, with a table of contents (ff. 1r-1v) and prologue (ff. 2v-5v: ‘introitus ad litteram libri’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3253
Title:: Peter Lombard, Collectanea in omnes Pauli apostoli Epistulas
Scope & Content:: This late 12th or early 13th-century manuscript contains the Commentary on the Pauline Epistles of the French theologian Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). The manuscript was originally bound in two or more volumes, the second one starting on f. 205r (f. 204v is blank and unruled; f. 244v has ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3441
Title:: Justinian, Codex
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains fragments of the Codex Justiniani (Emperor Justinian’s Code) which, together with Digesta (The Digest), Institutiones (Institutes of Justinian) and Novellae (The New Laws), makes up the Corpus Juris Civilis (Justinian’s Body of Civil Law). This was one of the most import...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3509
Title:: Cicero, De inventione; Boethius, Topica; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: This scholarly manuscript contains three texts concerning the art of rhetoric. Its contents and evidence of intensive use attest to the study of Classical texts in the Middle Ages, especially those concerning the rhetorical arts. The manuscript contains marginal or interlinear notes on almost ev...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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