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91. Harley MS 2920

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2920
Title:
Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

92. Harley MS 2928

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2928
Title:
Psalter; Expositio Hymnorum; an Old Occitan translation of the Gospel of St John (Chapters 13 to 17); a Benediction in verse; Alcuin, De Laude Psalmorum; the canon Si Quis Suadente from the II Lateran Council (1139)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This 12th-century manuscript from the South of France (Aquitaine) consists of a Psalter with litanies, hymns and an Old Occitan version of the Gospel of St John (chapters 13 to 17). It ends with Alcuin's treatise about the use of the book of Psalms, followed by a canon from the II Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Occitan, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

93. Harley MS 2939

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2939
Title:
Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
Scope & Content:
This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

94. Harley MS 2961

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2961
Title:
Leofric Collectar
Scope & Content:
The Leofric Collectar, comprising a collectar, a hymnal and a series of sequences for a community of secular canons. The manuscript is imperfect: it ends mid-sequence and appears to be missing its final quire. Judging by its script, it was made at Exeter during the episcopate of Bishop Leofric ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1050-1072
Extent:
1 volume

95. Harley MS 2965

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2965
Title:
The Book of Nunnaminster
Scope & Content:
A decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels. The text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 7653 (the Harley Prayerbo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 1st quarter of 10th century
Extent:
1 volume

96. Harley MS 2975

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2975
Title:
Breviary
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar in Latin. f. 2r: A circular diagram with instruction for finding Sunday Letters and Golden Numbers, starting in the year 1500. f. 2v: 'Tabula duodecum signorum zodyaci'. ff. 3r-8v: Calendar, including feasts for St Ludger, Bishop of Münster in Westph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

97. Harley MS 2991

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2991
Title:
Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions
Scope & Content:
This manuscript and Harley MS 2992 are companion volumes; Harley MS 2992, which is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-138v: Gregorian sacramentary, with benedictions. It includes musical notation, in the form of neumes, and was made N...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

1 volume

98. Harley MS 2992

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2992
Title:
Gregorian sacramentary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript and Harley MS 2991 are companion volumes. This volume is the continuation of Harley MS 2991, and has suffered more extensive water damage. Contents: ff. 1r-108v: Gregorian sacramentary. Decoration: Large initials in brown or red. Rubrics in red. Highlights in red between ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 9th century-Early 10th century
Extent:

1 volume

99. Harley MS 3008

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3008
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles and martyrdom of St Andrew (Passio Altera Sancti Andreae apostoli). Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the Passio that have be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

100. Harley MS 3009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3009
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum Progenitorum Iesu Christ
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the last two of the four books of the Dialogues (Dialogi) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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