Subject: Hagiography - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Subject Hagiography

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3020, ff 95-132
Title:: Passio Sancte Juliane; Paul the Deacon of Naples, translation of Eutychianus' Theophili Actus,
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 96r-112r: Passio Sancte Juliane (Passion of St Juliana of Nicomedia), beginning: 'Incipit Passio Sancte Iuliane martyre quod est idus februarii initium Nicomedia sub Maximiano imperatore. Tempore illo quidan senator nomine Eleusius, amicus Maximiani imperatoris'. ff. 113r-132r: P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Part of Harley MS 3020

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3044
Title:: St Jerome, Epistulae and other works
Scope & Content:: This large manuscript contains the Epistulae (Letters) by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), the Vita Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome), attributed to Sebastian of Monte Cassino, as well as the famous story of St Jerome and the lion. The manuscript lacks at least one leaf at the beginning, as the op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3097
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Botulphi; Vitae Tancredi, Torhtredi and Tovae; De Translatione Sanctorum Qui in Thornensi Monasterio Requiescunt; Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci; St Ambrose of Milan, Sermo de Observantia Episcoporum; Ambrose, De Misteriis; Ambrose, De Sacramentis; De Helia et Jejunio; Prologue to the Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Miracles of St Nicholas
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 419/420), followed by saints’ lives and sermons. It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot of Thorney Abbey and three saints at Thorney who were mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century - 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3680
Title:: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae; a tract on the conversion of Kent; Catalogus sanctorum qui in Anglia requiescunt, imperfect
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), the Epistola de obitu venerabilis Bedae (Letter on the Death of Bede the Venerable) by Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede, an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3895
Title:: Compilation of saints lives with devotions to saints
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript predominantly contains the lives of the martyrs St Thomas of Canterbury, St Pelagia of Antioch, St Eustace, St Katherine of Alexandria, and the confessor St Aignan, Bishop of Orléans. It also includes hymns and prayers, a theological tract, and a commentary on the So...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3908
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae; Lessons on the Gospel of St Luke; Mass and Office for the feast of St. Mildreth; Historia de Sancta Mildretha in music; Textus translationis Mildrethe; John of Bridlington, Prophetia; Prophecies of Merlin
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists mainly of texts written in the 1st half of the 12th century (ff. 1r-100r), and it also includes two added texts written in the 14th century (ff. 101r-117v). ff. 1r-35r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae, (the Life of St Mildreth), with a prolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century-14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

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

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