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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 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 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 3-75
Title:: Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r–75v: Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum (Commentary on Acts), beginning imperfectly: '[...] postulationis contempneretur auctoritas'. Decoration: Initials highlighted in red (oxidised) or/and yellow. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
Title:: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 76r-123r: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi (On faith in the Holy Trinity and on the incarnation of Christ), preceded by the dedicatory epistle (ff. 76v-78v) and capitula (ff. 78v-80v). ff. 123v-126r: Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem (Invocation...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in Psalmos
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises two volumes of what was originally a set of three separate volumes. Only the first two volumes are now known to have survived. The two volumes are now bound together. Each volume contains a commentary for 50 Psalms. Contents: Royal MS 2 E XIII: ff. 1r-121v: Pseudo-J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 1-5v
Title:: The Book of Job (24-42)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: The book of Job (24:20-42:16), imperfect beginning: 'Non sit in recordatione sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum'. Decoration: Small initials in red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A part of Royal MS 6 C VI

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