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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2805
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect. Decoration: Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3012
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim
Scope & Content:: Content: ff. 1r-32v: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae (The measure of the Soul), preceded by the Retractationes (Retractions), Book 1, chapter 8 (ff. 1r-v). ff. 33r-70v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (Easter Song). ff. 71r-84v: Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim (Commentary on the Apocalypse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3023
Title:: Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Peristephanon and part of Hamartigenia; anonymous explanation of poetic metres and letter on the death of Sigon, abbot of Saint-Florent de Saumur; letters by and from Berengar of Tours and Fulbert of Chartres
Scope & Content:: This manuscript primarily contains works by the Latin Christian poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day), Peristephanon (Crowns of the Martyrs), and the final part of Hamartigenia (The Origin of Sin), all glossed and annotated in the 12th century....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4329
Title:: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus); Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute); Le livre de amitié (De amicitia); letter of Bernard of Clairvaux; hymn to the Virgin
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-28v: Martin de Braga (translated by Jean Courtecuisse), Le livre des quatre vertus (De quatuor virtutibus). ff. 30r-129v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Laurent de Premierfait), Le livre de vieillesse (De senectute). ff. 130r-192v: Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1460
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
Title:: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 76r-123r: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi (On faith in the Holy Trinity and on the incarnation of Christ), preceded by the dedicatory epistle (ff. 76v-78v) and capitula (ff. 78v-80v). ff. 123v-126r: Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem (Invocation...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5049
Title:: Book of Hours for the use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-106v: Book of Hours for the use of Rome. Decoration: 24 small miniatures forming partial borders, in colours and gold, for the calendar (ff. 2r-7v). 14 full-page miniatures in architectural frames, in colours and gold (ff. 8r, 13r, 16r, 30r, 39r, 42r, 45r, 48r, 51r, 55r, 66r, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Undetermined
Date Range:: c 1510-c 1520
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 903
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. XVIII. (ff. 210). GENERALITÉ de Tours, consisting of the three provinces of Touraine (f. 7), Anjou (f. 74), and Maine (f. 143); by [Thomas Hue, Marquis] de Miromenil, Intendant, 1698. Tours, France: Memoir on the généralité of: 1698.: Fr. Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miroménil; Intendant of Tou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Yates Thompson MS 5
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Tilliot Hours')
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [iii] recto: Notes on the purchase of the manuscript from Jean-Bénigne Lucotte, seigneur du Tilliot. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-v: Suffrage to the Trinity (using masculine forms). ff. 9r-12v: Gospel extracts. ff. 13r-19v: Passion narrative (John 18:1-19:42) and a prayer ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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