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1. Harley MS 549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 628
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Harley MS 1915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1915
Title:
The Eusebian canon tables; Zacharias of Besançon, De Concordia Evangelistarum; Bede, Expositio Super Acta Apostolorum; Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum; Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim; Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is closely related to the readings of the New Testament as it includes a concordance on the four Gospels written by Zacharias of Besancon (d. 1157). It is followed by Bede's commentary on the Acts of Apostle, including his retractatio, a treatise in which he underlined his own mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 2753

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2753
Title:
Claudianus Claudius, Carmina maiora; Carmina minora; De Raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of works of the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), commonly known as Claudian. Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Claudianus Claudius, In Rufinum (Against Rufinus), with preface beginning, 'Phebeo domitus phiton'. ff. 6r-9r: Claudianus Claudius, De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2827

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2827
Title:
Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-458r: Bible with prologue and interpretation of Hebrew names (ff. 426r-458r). The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 459r-460v: Lections for liturgical feasts; added in the 14th century. ff. 460v-461r: A text on the life of Secundus the Silent (fl. 2nd century), beg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2830

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

7. Harley MS 2997

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2997
Title:
Lectionary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-232: Lectionary. Decoration: Historiated initials in colours and gold occasionally extending into the margin with a crouching man or a dragon (Christ addressing an assembly (f. 1r), the Adoration of the Magi (f. 35r)). Initials in gold with blue an/ord red pen-flourishing, r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3253

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

9. Harley MS 3520/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3520/1
Title:
Sextus Pompeus Festus, De significatione verborum; Ovid, Amorum libri; collection of Classical inscriptions
Scope & Content:
The first part of a two-volume set, the second volume of which is Harley MS 3520/2. This is a composite manuscript comprising three parts. Part 1, ff. 1-61, was written in North-Eastern France or the Southern Netherlands in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century Part 2, ff. 62-89, was written aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-c 1650
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 3534

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3534
Title:
Horace, Carmina, Epodae, Carmen saeculare, Ars poetica, Epistulae,Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the complete works of the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (b. 65 BC, d. 8) with interlinear and marginal glosses. It represents one of the 82 surviving copies of Horace’s Satires from the 12th century (Reynolds, ‘Glossing Horace’ (1996), p. 107). Contents: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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