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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2823
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2830
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins. ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 5v-58v: Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2833
Title:: Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the first volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Genesis to the Book of Job with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents. The manuscript was preserved at a religious house, as i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2834
Title:: The second volume of a Vulgate in two parts, containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the second volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation, with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents, and ends with the apocryphal Epistle to the L...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2886
Title:: Collectio Dacheriana, with marginalia
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of canons known as Collectio Dacheriana. It includes glosses throughout, added in the late 11th century or early 12th century. ff. 2r-v: Fragment from a 10th-century glossary. ff. 3r-104v: Collectio Dacheriana, imperfect at the end, with mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2895
Title:: Psalter ('La Charité Psalter')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the so-called 'La Charité Psalter', named after the Cluniac priory of La Charité-sur-Loire where the manuscript was produced at the end of the 12th century. A prayer for a community's abbess on f. 90v suggests that the Psalter was written for a nunnery affiliated with th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2905
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript includes a calendar with Augustinian elements, followed by the Psalms, Canticles and Hymns. ff. 1r-6v: A calendar with the zodiac signs. ff. 7r-190v: Psalms, imperfect at the beginning, Psalm 1 and the first verses of Psalm 2 are lacking; beginning: '[ip]sorum. Qui ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2928
Title:: Psalter; Expositio Hymnorum; an Old Occitan translation of the Gospel of St John (Chapters 13 to 17); a Benediction in verse; Alcuin, De Laude Psalmorum; the canon Si Quis Suadente from the II Lateran Council (1139)
Scope & Content:: Contents: This 12th-century manuscript from the South of France (Aquitaine) consists of a Psalter with litanies, hymns and an Old Occitan version of the Gospel of St John (chapters 13 to 17). It ends with Alcuin's treatise about the use of the book of Psalms, followed by a canon from the II Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2991
Title:: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions
Scope & Content:: This manuscript and Harley MS 2992 are companion volumes; Harley MS 2992, which is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-138v: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions. It includes musical notation, in the form of neumes, and was made N...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2992
Title:: Gregorian sacramentary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript and Harley MS 2991 are companion volumes. This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-108v: Gregorian sacramentary. Decoration: Large initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Highlights in red between ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century-Early 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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