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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 1-7661 Place Northern France

11. Harley MS 3728

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3728
Title:
Astesanus of Asti, Summa de casibus conscientiae, with an index
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Summa de casibus conscientiae (Cases of conscience), a confessional work written by the Franciscan canon lawyer and theologian Astesanus of Asti (d. c. 1330). The text is divided into three books, each beginning with a list of contents. Contents: f. 1*v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 3815

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3815
Title:
Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-639v: Bible, including the Psalms and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names (ff. 595r-639v). The manuscript contains later additions: ff. 1*r-1*v: A list of biblical books, added in the (?) 14th century. ff. 302r, 310v, 367r: English inscriptions in different hands, added in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

13. Harley MS 3861

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3861
Title:
Petrus Alfonsi, Dialogus contra Judaeos
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Dialogus contra Judaeos (Dialogue against the Jews), written by the Jewish physician and astronomer Petrus Alphonsi (b. 1062 d. 1140), born Moses Sephardi, who converted to Christianity in 1106. The polemic takes the form of an imagined debate between his f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

14. Harley MS 4417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4417
Title:
Livre de Sydrac; Huon de Méry, Le tournoiement Antechrist
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Livre de Sydrac (Book of Sydrac), an anonymous philosophical work in Old French, written between 1270 and 1300. The text is presented in the form of a dialogue between an ancient Babylonian king named Boctus and Sydrac, a philosopher. The volume also includes Le Torn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

15. Harley MS 4878

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4878
Title:
Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-58r: Philippe de Vitry, Chronique de la création du monde (until 1327); Le chapel des trois fleurs de lis (in verse). Decoration: Small miniature in colours and gold of Jacques de Vitry writing while a crowned lady presents the model of a church to a knight on a horse, with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 14th century or 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

16. Harley MS 4984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4984
Title:
Collection of texts about St Martin of Tours: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini, Epistolae, Dialogi (books 1-3); Gregory of Tours, De Virtutibus Sancti Martini and Libri Octo Miraculorum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours (d. 397) by Sulpicius Severus (b. c. 363, d. c. 425) and Gregory of Tours (b. c. 538, d. 594). The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contempo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

17. Harley MS 5041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5041
Title:
A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

18. Harley MS 5300

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5300
Title:
Juvenal, Satirae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satirae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two collections of Satirae (Satires) by the Roman poets Juvenal (fl. late 1st century-early 2nd century) and Aulus Persius Flaccus (b. 34, d. 62). The manuscript was perhaps made at the same workshop and by the same scribe as Harley MS 4856, which contains a copy of Vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Harley MS 5303

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5303
Title:
Horace, Carmina; Epistulae; Sermones; Ars Poetica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of works by the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (b. 65, d. 8 BC), also known as Horace. Contents: ff. 1r-56v: Horace, Carmina; ff. 57r-84r: Horace, Epistulae; ff. 84r-121v: Horace, Sermones; ff. 122r-130r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 130v is blank....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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