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1. Harley MS 978, f 38r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, f 38r
Title:
Two letters
Scope & Content:
Two letters: 1. Incipit: 'Abbas Westmonasteriensis salutem', explicit: 'tempora longiora'; 2. Incipit: 'Viro venerabili et discreto R.', explicit: 'vobis duxerit intimandum'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 folio.

2. Harley MS 978, ff 15v-21v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 15v-21v
Title:
Calendar with prognostications
Scope & Content:
Calendar with prognostications. Only the entries for January and February (ff. 15v-16r) are complete with prognostications and references to the deaths of abbots of Reading, while prognostications for May-August were supplied by a 15th-century hand. References to the abbots' deaths on ff. 15v-16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
7 folios.

3. Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 22r-37r
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
Medical miscellany including: Pseudo-Aristoteles, Epistula ad Alexandrum Magnum de corpore humano sanando (from the Secretum Secretorum), translated by John of Seville (ff. 22r-23r). Rubric in the margin: 'Epistula Aristotelis ad / Alexandrum macedonem / de conservacione / sanita/tis', incipit:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
16 folios (f. 37v is blank)

4. Harley MS 978, ff 75r-117v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 75r-117v
Title:
Literary miscellany
Scope & Content:
Literary miscellany in verse and prose including: Goliardic verses including poems by Walter Map (ff. 75r-107r); Rubric (f. 75r): 'Apocalipsis Golye episcopi', incipit: 'A tauro torrida lampada cynthis?', explicit: 'Tu autem domine miserere crawe. Amen'. The verses include H. Walther, Initia carm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
43 folios.

5. Harley MS 978, ff 68v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 68v-74v
Title:
Walter Map, Poems
Scope & Content:
Walter Map, Poems (added); Incipit: 'Noctis sub silencio tempore brumali', explicit: 'Explicit conflictus (?) inter corpus et animam'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
7 folios + 1 (ff. 174*r-174*v: blank).

6. Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:
1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
14 folios.

7. Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 40r-67v
Title:
Marie de France, Fables
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Fables. Title added in the upper margin 'Ici cumence le ysope', incipit: 'Ci ki sevient de leccrure', explicit: 'qua lui pusse mal me rendre'. See Dean and Boulton 1999, no. 179.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
28 folios.

8. Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 118r-160r
Title:
Marie de France, Lais
Scope & Content:
Marie de France, Lais; incipit: 'Ki deus ad dune en science?', explicit: 'Chahum nel deust oblier'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
43 folios.

9. Harley MS 978, ff 38r-39v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 38r-39v
Title:
Short texts in prose and verse
Scope & Content:
Short texts in prose and verse by various hands. Rubric (f. 38v): 'Dicta cuidam Goliardi anglici', incipit: 'Omnibus in Gallia anglus Goliardus': see H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1969), no. 13306; incipit: 'Quatuor e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
2 folios.

10. Harley MS 978, ff 160v-162r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 978, ff 160v-162r
Title:
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music and notes
Scope & Content:
A list of contents of a collection of polyphonic music (untraced) in a 14th-century hand, headed 'Ordo libri W. de Wint[onia]' and comprising the textual incipits of eight Marian tropes under the heading 'R[esponsorium] R. de Burg[ate]', 37 alleluia settings under the heading 'Postea R[esponsori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1300-1636
Extent:
3 folios.