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1. 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 lacki...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. 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 menti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. 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, dated to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1475-1654
Extent:
1 volume

4. 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 duke o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1462-1480
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 33241

Reference (shelfmark):
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 pres...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. 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 spent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. 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 copied in t...
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

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 regnat c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. 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: Hraba...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. 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 (On the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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