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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4978
Title:: St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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):: Harley MS 5041
Title:: A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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