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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Germany

11. Harley MS 2670

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2670
Title:
Terence, Comoediae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript of the Comoediae (Comedies) of Publius Terentius Afer (Terence, d. c. 159 BC) has tall and narrow dimensions. Books of such dimensions are known as ‘holster books’ since they would be easy to suspend from a belt or holster (Kwakkel and Newton, Medicine at Monte Cassino (2019), pp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 2703

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2703
Title:
Ovid, Fasti, and Remedia amoris
Scope & Content:
A manuscript consisting of two parts that had been bound together by 1533 (see ‘Custodial history’). Both parts contain elegiac verse by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), and were probably written in Germany. The first part (ff. 1r-56v) dates to the 2nd half of the 12th century; the second part (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Harley MS 2713

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2713
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-12th century
Extent:

1 volume

14. Harley MS 2750

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2750
Title:
Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. Harley MS 2770

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2770
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A near-contemporary four-line annotation at the top of the page (which was originally a medieval flyleaf), most likely added in the early 13th-century, beginning: ‘Initi Virgilius poetari op[er]is'. ff. 1v-54r: Publius Virgilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid, with verse preface (‘Ill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

16. Harley MS 2829

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2829
Title:
Pauline Epistles
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Pauline Epistles. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: A table itemizing the Pauline Epistles; added in the 16th century. Decoration: Large initials in red with foliate motifs. Smaller initials in red (some oxidised). Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 2848

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2848
Title:
Prayer book
Scope & Content:
This composite prayer book consists of four parts (ff. 1-30, 31-55, 56-59, 60-70) that were produced separately by different scribes. The style of decoration of the second part suggest that the whole manuscript originates from Germany or the Low Countries. Contents: ff. 1r-26r: The Fifteen Oe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

18. Harley MS 2854

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2854
Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents f. 2r: A 'bleeding table', in which Golden Numbers (1-19) are correlated with the 12 signs of the Zodiac, with indications of their influence: 'Aries bonum - Thaurus malum - Gemini malum [etc.]'. ff. 3r-14v: Latin Calendar with Cisioianus; the name of each month is translated into Ge...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1460
Extent:
1 volume

19. Harley MS 2870

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2870
Title:
Fragment of a Sequentiary for the Temporale and Sanctorale with added chants for moveable and Marian masses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragment of a Sequentiary (ff. 1r-27r), containing Sequences for the Temporale and Sanctorale, with chants for moveable and Marian feasts (ff. 26v-31v), added in a German-speaking area. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: The [Christmas] Sequence: 'Letabundus exulted fidelis choru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

20. Harley MS 2898

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2898
Title:
Evangeliary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-43r: Evangeliary, featuring texts for the feasts of St Odile [Odilia], patron saint of Alsace, on f. 16v; St Norbert of Xanten (founder of the Premonstratensian Order and Archbishop of Magdeburg) on f. 24v; St Afra, patron of Augusburg, on f. 31r; and a reference to St Ulrich o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

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