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1. Burney MS 42

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 42
Title:
Ambrosiaster, Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli (Commentary on the Pauline Epistles), a 4th-century work that is considered to be an important source for the reception of the Pauline Epistles before St Augustine of Hippo. The Commentaria was written by an u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 1–36

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 1–36
Title:
Troper (The ‘Caligula Troper’) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: a Troper made in England possibly in the mid-11th century, with musical notation. Some feast days were also accompanied by illustrations. Decoration: Miniatures depicting St Stephen (f. 3v), the Ascension (f. 18r), the naming of St John the Baptist (f. 20v), St Peter b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Caligula A XIV

3. Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff 43–203
Title:
A Germano-Roman Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The main part of this Pontifical was written by two German scribes in the mid-11th century. Thirteenth English scribes have added materials on blank spaces and additional leaves in the second half of the 11th century according to Wilcox, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2000) and Morgan, The Production ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Cotton MS Tiberius C I

4. Harley MS 1027

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1027
Title:
Statutes of Exeter Cathedral
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-76r: Statutes of Exeter Cathedral, beginning with a statute by Bishop William [? Warelwast, bishop 1107-1137] and ending with those issued in 1387 by Thomas Brantingham, bishop 1370-1394. For a detailed list of contents, see A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, I (1808), p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2277

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2277
Title:
South English Legendary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-232v: South English Legendary (Legends of the saints in verse, listed according to their feast days), imperfect at the beginning. Decoration: Large plain initials in red or blue. Paraphs in red or blue. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2398

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2398
Title:
Middle English collection of devotional treatises and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early 15th-century collection of devotional treatises and sermons in Middle English, including writings influenced by the ideas of and (anonymously) citing John Wyclif [Wycliffe] (d. 1384), theologian, philosopher and religious reformer. Contents: ff. 1r-69r: Memo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Harley MS 3447

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3447
Title:
Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg, Compendium theologicae veritatis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-135v: Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg (b. 1210, d. 1268), Compendium theologicae veritatis or Compendium theologiae [Compendium of Theological Truths]; with an alphabetical index (ff. 128r-135v); written in seven books that are entitled: 1. De natura divinitatis; 2. De creaturis; 3....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 4076

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4076
Title:
Collection of medical recipes
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a 16th-century collection of medical and cosmetic recipes in English and Latin, most likely compiled by a physician in the county of Devon. Its first known owner was William Raulyngs [Ralyngs], who appears to have been closely related to the manuscript's compiler. The la...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1550
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 5444

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5444
Title:
Votive masses; Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologicae veritatis; William of Pagula, Oculus Sacerdotis; Jacobus de Lausanne, Commentaries on Genesis, Exodus and Job
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of four parts that were separately produced and joined together at a later point, possibly in the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-8v) is a single booklet with votive masses that was commissioned by Alicia Lygh (d. in or after 1525) of Chippenham, Wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-1503
Extent:
1 volume

10. Royal MS 20 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 B XIV
Title:
William of Waddington, Manuel de Pechies, Robert Grosseteste, Le Chasteau d'Amour, a collection of religious and moral poems and a prose treatise
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of religious and moral poems, including William of Waddington's Manuel de Pechiez and Robert Grosseteste's Le Chasteau d'Amour, a prose sermon, the Mirour de Seinte Eglise or Speculum Ecclesiae by Edmund Rich; and a collection of Miracles of the Virgin in ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume