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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4927
Title:: Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales; Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of two parts that were produced separately in Southern France. The first part (ff. 1-118) was produced in the last quarter of the 12th or 3rd quarter of the 13th century and contains the sermons for Sundays attributed to John Halgren of Abbeville (d. 1237), Fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century -1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-118v: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales, beginning ‘Dominicales sermones iohannis de abbatis villa · episcopi Sabinensis’. Decoration: 1 large red initial with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red or brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4951

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951, ff 119-301
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 120r-301v: Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse with neumes, and including a tonary on ff. 295v-301v, beginning ‘Autentus protus ad sonales . Tonum .I.’. This part contains a number of later (11th- and 12th-century) additions: f. 119r: A latin text in the upper margin, faded ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4951

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones; Liber Catonianus
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made of two parts produced at different locations and times. The first part (ff. 5r-76r) contains the Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law) by the late-12th century theologian Peter of Blois and the Institutiones (Institutions) by Emperor Justinian I (b. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1250
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967, ff 1r-76v
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Short texts and notes, including a poem on f. 2r which is also in Royal MS 11 D III, f. 243r. f. 4v: A table of contents of Justinian's Institutiones (Institutions). ff. 5r-19r: Peter of Blois (b. c. 1130, d. 1212), Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law), beg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4967

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967, ff 77r-193v
Title:: Liber Catonianus
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 77r-77v: A damaged fragment from an unidentified manuscript. ff. 78r-185v, 192r-193v: Liber Catonianus, with marginal and interlinear glosses, beginning: 'Lux beata'. The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 186r-191v: John of Garland (d. after 1258), Synonyma (The Synonyms...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1250-1250
Extent:: A part of Harley MS 4967

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4978
Title:: St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980
Title:: Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi and other Alcuin's works
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of three parts of different origin and period, perhaps bound together in the 13th century in Carcassone, according to Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012). Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980' (1936) argues that 'textual and orthographic peculiarities' in th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century-9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 1-2v
Title:: Fragment from Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine, De civitate Dei (City of God), Book 16 chapter 8 to 16. Decoration: A quire signature (f. 2v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

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