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1. Add MS 11943

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Add MS 11943
Title:
Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 33241

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Add MS 33241
Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Arundel MS 375

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 375
Title:
Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of the Liber Historie Francorum (the History of the Franks) in its Austrasian reworking (Austrasia was a Merovingian kingdom situated in the North-East of France), followed by the anonymous Excidium Troiae (The Destruction of Troy) and a part of the Annales Me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Burney MS 317

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 317
Title:
Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the Homiliae in Ezecheliem (Homilies on Ezekiel), in two books, written by Pope Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), followed by an excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) (ff. 168v-169v). It has been copied in the last quarter of the 11th century. The par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174
Title:
Gospel of St John; A charter of Duke William II of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 174r: a fragment from a Gospel of St John copied in the middle of the 10th century. f. 174v: a charter of William II, duke of Normandy (b. 1035, d. 1087), later King William I of England (r. 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, dated between 1063 and 1066 and copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century-2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

6. Harley MS 203

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 203
Title:
Innocent III, De Officio Missae; Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Scope & Content:
Composite volume consisting of two booklets (ff. 1–28, 29–98). ff. 1r–26r: Innocent III, De Officio Missae (The Office of the Mass). ff. 26r–28v: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer, ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem'. ff. 29r–52v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Incarnatione Verbi ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 491

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 491
Title:
William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–2v: Two leaves from a Mass lectionary, probably written in Lotharingia, mid-11th-century (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)). ff. 3r–46v: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes). ff. 47r–48v: Two leaves from a mortuary roll for Turgot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 1918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1918
Title:
Homiliary with lectiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Homilia in Vigilia Paschalis, beginning: 'In Sancto Sabbato secundum Mattheum. Que luscecit in primam (sic) sabbati [...] Omelia Venerabilis Bede presbiteri, de eadem lectione. Vigilias nobis hujus sacratissime noctis', ending: 'qui vivit et reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Harley MS 1924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1924
Title:
Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-2v) and capitula (ff. 2v-3v), ending at chapter 42: 'et involutum novo amictu corpus levique in theca reconditum supra pavimentum sanctuarii composuerunt' (f. 48v). Chapters 41 and 44-46 are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2823
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:
1 volume

11. Harley MS 2868

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2868
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Suffrage to St Barbara, with the rubric: ‘Quicumque factum sancte barbare animam celebraverit et cotidie hanc memoracionem et oracionem martirii eiusdem subsequentem bene et devote dixerit multa tormenta corporis per eius intercessionem evadet et absque confessione et vera...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

12. Harley MS 3061

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3061
Title:
Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 52; Lanfranc of Canterbury, De corpore et sanguine domini; Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts and sermons mainly focusing on the Eucharist. The last text of the manuscript is probably a contemporary addition written by a different scribe, according to Gullick, 'Professional Scribes' (1995). Contents: f. 1r: List of contents, added in the 14th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

13. Harley MS 3104

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3104
Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri octo (Commentary on Matthew in eight books), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v) and capitula (ff. 1v-2v), beginning of the Prologue: 'Memor itaque illi precepti quod per vas sibi aptum olim sapientia protulit'. ff. 3r-157v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

14. Harley MS 3107

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3107
Title:
St Augustine, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
The Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). Written in Western or North-Western France (ex info. Michael Gullick), the manuscript was given by the bishop of Lucca to the Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca. Contents: ff. 1*v-147v: Augustine, Epistolae, beginning: ‘D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

15. Harley MS 3941/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941/1
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b.c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The second volume is Harley 3941/2. Contents: f. 1r: Letter of Braulio to Isidore, imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

16. Harley MS 3941/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941/2
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

17. Harley MS 4413

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4413
Title:
Coutumier d'Anjou et du Maine
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-133v: Coutumier d'Anjou et du Maine (Customary of Anjou and Maine), beginning: ‘Rene par la grace de dieu roy de Jherusalem et de Sicile duc d'Anjou per de France duc de Bar et de Lorraine conte de Prouvence de Forcalquier et de Pymont’. René I of Anjou (b. 1408, d. 1480) was d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1462-1480
Extent:
1 volume

18. Harley MS 5319

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5319
Title:
Compilations of French texts with German vocabulary and practice sentences; Arabic book with Qur'an text; The Fifteen Oes
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of three distinct parts, containing a 17th-century compilation of French letters and German vocabulary and practice sentences (ff. 2r-69v); an Arabic book that may have been written in the 15th or 16th century (ff. 70r-109v); and a copy of the Fifteen Oes, date...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475-1654
Extent:
1 volume

19. Sloane MS 3103

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3103
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Liber Confortatorius; An incomplete account of St Thomas Becket's death; An excerpt from a chant on the martyrdom of St Catherine; An antiphon with neumes; A hymn on St Catherine; Brevis relatio; A genealogy of the kings of England; St Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistula ad Eugenium (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the unique extant witness of the Liber Confortatorius (ff. 1r-117v) written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (d. c. 1107) for an English recluse named Eve. Eve left her convent for an anchoritic life in France, under the guidance of Hervé, a monk of Vendôme, near Tours, and s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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