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Project / Collection Harley Collection Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Reading, England

1. Harley MS 82, ff 1-3

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82, ff 1-3
Title:
A register of Reading abbey
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–3v: Three leaves from a register of Abbot Nicholas of Whapelode (r. 1305–28), containing entries for 1305–1311. [ff. 1v-2r are blank].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 82

2. Harley MS 82, ff 4–34

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 82, ff 4–34
Title:
Usuard, Martyrology
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r–34v: Usuard, Martyrology, organized by calendar (January through December, ff. 4r–32v) with a second section by the church year (beginning with Advent, ff. 32v–34v). Many sections lacking. Decoration: Large and small initials that alternate in colour between red, blue, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 82

3. Harley MS 101

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 101
Title:
Origen, Commentarium in Canticum Canticorum; Hrabanus Maurus, De institutione clericorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin in Reading. It was produced in a stylistic period of manuscript production at the abbey that has been dated to between 1150 and 1180. Many of the abbey’s manuscripts from this period contain patristic writings, which is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1150-1180
Extent:

1 volume

4. Harley MS 493/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 493/1
Title:
Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England). Contents: ff. 2r-289v: Statuta Angliae. [f. 1r is blank]. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 493/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 493/2
Title:
Statuta Angliae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second of two volumes (the other is Harley MS 493/1) containing the Statuta Angliae (The Statutes of England). Contents: ff. 1r-218v: Statuta Angliae. Decoration: Numerous small initials in red. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 651, ff 1-184

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 651, ff 1-184
Title:
Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronici Canones; St Jerome, Continuation of Eusebius; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma Chronicorum; Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica; Robert de Torigni, Chronica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r–57v: Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), Bishop of Caesarea, Chronici Canones (Chronological Canons), translated by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), with his prologue; ending ‘Huc usque historiam scribit eusebius pamphili martiris contubermalis [sic]; cui nos ista subiecimus’...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 651

7. Harley MS 1246

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1246
Title:
Homiliary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: A table of content of the collection of sermons contained in this manuscript. ff. 2r-141r: A collection of 63 homilies mainly excerpted from the commentaries on the Four Gospels by the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church, arranged for the liturgical year, beginning with B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex