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1. Harley MS 1964

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1964
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rennes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v-6r: Unidentified devotional text in French about the teaching of five salutations to Christ, faded at the beginning. ff. 7r-18v: Calendar, including the following saints in red ink: Agnes, Juliane, Agatha, Ambrosius, Eutrope, Yvo (Tréguier, Brittany), Gervasus and Prothasus,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Harley MS 2719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2719
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Harley MS 2795

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2795
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (Prologue to the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'. ff. 4r-6v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (St Jerome's e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 3107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3107
Title:
St Augustine, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
The Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). Written in Western or North-Western France (ex info. Michael Gullick), the manuscript was given by the bishop of Lucca to the Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca. Contents: ff. 1*v-147v: Augustine, Epistolae, beginning: ‘D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 5370

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5370
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Angers
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-17v: The life of Christ according to the Four Gospels. ff. 17v-24r: Obsecro te. ff. 24r-30r: O intemerata. ff. 30r-30v: Salve regina. ff. 30v-32r: Short prayers ('antiphons') to the Virgin Mary, beginning: 'Ave regina celo', 'Regina celi letare',...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume