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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3036
Title:: Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1-3v: Numerous added texts and excerpts, written by several 12th-century hands, beginning with Alcuin (d. 804), Ad Pueros Sancti Martini de confessione peccatorum (To the young men of Saint-Martin on the confession of sins), and including a short account of the life of Hugh, abbot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3068
Title:: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Ephrem the Syrian, Sermons; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6r: Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, Book 1-Book 2 (beginning). ff. 6v-44v: Ephrem the Syrian, Six sermons ('books'), including De compunctione cordis (ff. 6v-13r); De judicio dei et resurrectione et de regno celorum et mundicia animae (ff. 13r-16v); De beatitudine ani...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3070
Title:: Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9v: Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis. ff. 10r-46v: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi. Decoration: Large (2-line) initials in red or green, occasionally with penwork decoration. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3072
Title:: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius, sermons; Prudentius, Cathemerinon; Servius, Commentary on Georgics; Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This volume consists of different parts that were bound together at an early period. The first part (ff. 1r-6r) was written in the second half of the 10th century. The second part (ff. 7r-87r) was produced in the third quarter of the 10th century. The third part (ff. 87r-90v) contains sermons co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3074
Title:: Letters of Pope Leo I; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2r: Faded theological text, written in 2 columns, beginning: 'Virtus peccati lex est quia lex prohibendo / Incitat affectum peccandi in reprimendo'. ff. 2v-86v: Pope Leo I [Leo the Great], Epistolae (Collection of 56 letters). ff. 86v-89v: Pope Hilarius, Letters to Ascanius of T...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3079
Title:: Homiliary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-296v: A collection of homilies (sermons) by Haimo of Halberstadt (b. c. 778, d. 853), Bede (b. 672, d. 735), Fulgentius Ferrandus (fl. c. 500), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. c. 340), St Caesarius of Arles (b. c. 468, d. 542) and others, for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3083
Title:: St Ambrose, Epistulae, De Obitu Theodosii and De Nabuthe Jezraelita
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves most of St Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397)'s Epistulae (Letters). It also includes two other works by Ambrose: De Obitu Theodosii (On the Death of Theodosius I) and De Nabuthe Jezraelita (On Naboth the Jezreelite). The manuscript may initially have been part of a larger volume ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3084
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica, Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-173v: Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260-265, d. c. 340), Historia Ecclesiastica (Church History), in Latin translation by Rufinus of Aquileia (b. c. 345, d. 411), with capitula preceding each book. Decoration: 12 large puzzle initials in red and blue or red and green, with pen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3085
Title:: Leviticus with Glossa Ordinaria (Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Leviticus)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-111v: Book of Leviticus with Glossa Ordinaria (Commentary on Leviticus by Hrabanus Maurus), preceded by a prologue, beginning: 'Esicius. Pre omnibus necesse est interpretationem legis ab anagogem trahi'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3086
Title:: Joshua and Judges, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-68v: Book of Joshua with gloss. ff. 69r-128r: Book of Judges with gloss.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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