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141. Harley MS 3072

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3072
Title:
Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius, sermons; Prudentius, Cathemerinon; Servius, Commentary on Georgics; Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of different parts that were bound together at an early period. The first part (ff. 1r-6r) was written in the second half of the 10th century. The second part (ff. 7r-87r) was produced in the third quarter of the 10th century. The third part (ff. 87r-90v) contains sermons co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

142. Harley MS 3073

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3073
Title:
Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David; Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences
Scope & Content:
This manuscript may be the presentation copy of the text given by Nicholas of Clairvaux to count Henry I of Champagne (d. 1181), according to Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence' (1962), p. 163, n. 44. Nicholas of Clairvaux was appointed the head of the Benedictine pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

143. Harley MS 3079

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3079
Title:
Homiliary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-296v: A collection of homilies (sermons) by Haimo of Halberstadt (b. c. 778, d. 853), Bede (b. 672, d. 735), Fulgentius Ferrandus (fl. c. 500), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. c. 340), St Caesarius of Arles (b. c. 468, d. 542) and others, for...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

144. Harley MS 3095

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3095
Title:
Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:
The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

145. Harley MS 3667

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3667
Title:
Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

146. Harley MS 3895

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

147. Harley MS 3908

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

148. Harley MS 3974

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3974
Title:
Aimoin of Fleury, Historia Francorum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) by Aimoin of Fleury (b. c. 960, d. c. 1010), a French chronicler and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. It is thought to have been produced for Henri I (b. 1127, d. 1181), Count of Champagne, since it was ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1165-c 1170
Extent:
A parchment codex

149. Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118
Title:
John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales, beginning ‘Dominicales sermones iohannis de abbatis villa · episcopi Sabinensis’. Decoration: 1 large red initial with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red or brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 4951

150. Harley MS 4951, ff 119-301

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4951, ff 119-301
Title:
Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 120r-301v: Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse with neumes, and including a tonary on ff. 295v-301v, beginning ‘Autentus protus ad sonales . Tonum .I.’. This part contains a number of later (11th- and 12th-century) additions: f. 119r: A latin text in the upper margin, faded ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 4951

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