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361. Harley MS 3707

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3707
Title:
Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia peregrinationis Ierosolimitane (with a continuation by Lisiardus Turonensis); Petrus Alphonsi, Contra Judaeos dialogi
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Ierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) by Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1050, d. 1130), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Bourgueil and bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne. The work presents a history of the events of the First Crusade in four books, beginnin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

362. Harley MS 3723

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3723
Title:
Collection of works by Géraud de Frachet, including the Cronica ex diversis hystoriis abreviata, Chronica ordinis fratrum praedicatorum, and De decem Sybillis
Scope & Content:
This 14th-century manuscript contains a hitherto unidentified collection of the works of the Dominican friar Géraud [Gérald or Gérard] de Frachet [Geraldus de Fracheto] (b. 1205, d. 1271), historian and hagiographer of the Dominican Order. Among other works, it features his universal chronicle, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

363. Harley MS 3762

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3762
Title:
Glossed Isaiah; Prologue to Daniel; Glossed Daniel
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A title inscription: 'Ysai[ah]'. ff. 1v-112r: Glossed Isaiah. ff. 113r-113v: Prologue to Daniel. ff. 114v-162r: Glossed Daniel. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 163v: A list of Syrian kings, beginning with Seleucus I Nicator, and a list of Egyptian kings, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

364. Harley MS 3774

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3774
Title:
Book of Job with glossa ordinaria
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-129r: Book of Job with glossa ordinaria.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

365. Harley MS 3859

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3859
Title:
Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Welsh
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

366. Harley MS 3883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3883
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Antiquitates iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities) by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100). Contents: 1r-306r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae, beginning: ‘Hystoriam scribere disponentibus non una nec eandem’. Decoration: Large initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

367. Harley MS 3904

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3904
Title:
Peter Tudebode, Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere (The History of the Journey to Jerusalem). This is an eye-witness account of the First Crusade (1095-1099) by Peter Tudebode (fl. 1100), a priest from Poitou who accompanied the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles (b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-1110
Extent:
A parchment codex

368. Harley MS 3939

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3939
Title:
Gospel of St John with gloss
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49v: Gospel of St John with glossa ordinaria. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 49v: A practice sentence in English: 'Ryght worshypfull [crossed out]'; written in the (?) 16th century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 volume

369. Harley MS 3996

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3996
Title:
Nicolas de Nicolay, Navigation de la Mer
Scope & Content:
An account of James V’s navigation round Scotland in 1540 written by Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-83), royal geographer and lord of Arfeuille et Bel-Air. Based upon the pilot book of James’ navigator, Alexander Lindsay. A presentation copy for Cardinal Charles de Lorraine (1524-74). De Nicolay would...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1547-1566
Extent:
1 volume

370. Harley MS 4001

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4001
Title:
Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-144v: Chroniques abrégées, also known as The 'Manual' of Philip VI of France, compiled from the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais and sometimes attributed to a monk of Saint-Denis, beginning: '[L]a cause afait ceste compilacion'. Decoration: Rubrics in red. Marginal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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