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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 27r-33v
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis
Scope & Content:: An extract from the Summa de vitiis composed by Willelmus Peraldus (d. 1261) in c. 1236. Rubric: 'Incipit capituli in libro de vitiis', incipit: 'Tractatus iste continet ix partes'. The text is preceded by a set of four full-page prefatory images in tinted drawing: f. 27r: A Dominican friar ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 7 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 33v-35v
Title:: De sex alis cherubim
Scope & Content:: Alanus ab Insula (Alain de Lille) (c. 1128–1203) (?), De sex alis cherubim, rubric: 'De prima ale que dicitur confessio et cuiusdem prima penna que dicitur veritas', incipit: 'Prima ala est'. The earliest manuscript attributions of this text are to Clement of Llanthony (prior of Llanthony and th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 3 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 36r-71v
Title:: Bestiary
Scope & Content:: Bestiary. Rubric: 'Incipit liber de natura bestiarum', incipit: 'Leo fortissimus bestiarum'. Decoration: The text is illustrated by 136 framed tinted drawings of animals in colours: Lion (f. 36r); Tiger (f. 36v); Leopard; Panther (f. 37r); Antelope; Unicorn (f. 38r); Lynx; Griffin (f. 38v); El...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 36 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 72r-86r
Title:: Collection of exempla
Scope & Content:: Collection of exempla. Rubric: 'Incipiunt narrationes et exempla quidam edificatoria', incipit: Quidam princeps saracenorum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 15 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 87r-121r
Title:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis
Scope & Content:: Willelmus Peraldus, Summa de vitiis, begins imperfectly: '...gaudium nostrum in hac valle lacrimarum'; explicit: 'Explicit summa de vitiis septem et eorum speciebus multimodum'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 34 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 121r-128r
Title:: Pseudo-Bernard, Tractatus sive meditatio Bernardi de interiori homine
Scope & Content:: Pseudo-Bernard, Tractatus sive meditatio Bernardi de interiori homine. Rubric: 'Incipit liber beati Bernardi de interiori homine qualiter homo debeat parvenire ad cognitionem dei'; incipit: 'Multi multa sciunt et seipsos nesciunt'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 129r-138r
Title:: Expositiones nominum Bibliotece
Scope & Content:: 'Expositiones nominum Bibliotece', incipit (Prologue): 'Prologus vel prefacio ad pesonam pertinet'; incipit (text): 'Abissus .i. sine bisso'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 10 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 138r-145r
Title:: Robert Grosseteste, Templum Domini
Scope & Content:: Templum Domini was composed after 1235 by Robert Grosseteste, known as Lincolniensis (d. 1253), bishop of Lincoln. Rubric: Incipit tractatus perutilis qui vocatur Templum', incipit: 'Templum dei'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 8 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 146r-185r
Title:: Richard Wetheringsett, Summa 'Qui bene praesunt'
Scope & Content:: Richard Wetheringsett, Summa 'Qui bene praesunt' (or Summa de doctrina sacerdotali) attributed here to William de Montibus (d. 1213), Numerale. Rubric: Incipit summa magistri Willelmi de montibus...'; incipit: 'Qui bene presunt presbiteri duplici honore digni habeantur'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 39 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3244, ff 185v-186r
Title:: Two texts, on spiritual virtues, and on conscience, attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux
Scope & Content:: Two texts, on spiritual virtues, and on conscience, attributed here to Bernard of Clairvaux. Incipit: 'Misericordia est circa uitiosos servata districtio', Rubric: 'De bona conscientia', incipit: 'Angelicam vitam ducit'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1236-c 1250
Extent:: 2 folios.

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