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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2382
Title:: Middle English verse collection including Lydgate's Life of Our Lady and Chaucer's Prioress' Tale and Second Nun's Tale
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2574) ff.75r-86r: The Assumption of Our Lady(New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2165) ff. 86v-87r: Prayer to the Virgin from the Speculum Christiani (New Index of Middle English Verse, no. 2119...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2392
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, beginning: 'The double sorwe of troilus for to tell / that was kyng Priam[mes] sone of troie' (see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see The Riverside Chaucer, ed. by Benson and Robinson (1987), pp. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2421
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2427
Title:: Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
Scope & Content:: Language : Hebrew The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation. Tehilim. תהילים Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1600-1799
Extent:: 161 folios (ii+161+iii)

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2620
Title:: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio and T. Livius, Ab urbe condita (Periochae)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes two abridged version of Livy's Ab urbe condita: L. Annaeus Florus, Epitoma de Tito Livio (ff. 1r-43r); and the so-called Periochae, a list of contents of T. Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8 (ff. 43r-46r). Decoration: Initials originally in red and capital letters highl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2750
Title:: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-94r: Publius Terentius Afer, Vita Terentii, Opera (Life and Works), with interlinear and marginal glosses. f. 94v: various scribbles and notes including an annotation which is one of the earliest French vernacular songs with music in a late-11th-century hand. Decoration: Ini...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2768
Title:: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a 15th-century copy of Aulus Gellius' Noctes atticae (Attic Nights), a commonplace book comprising notes on grammar, history, antiquarianism and philosophy, drawn from a variety of sources. Contents: ff. 1r-297v: Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae (Attic Nights). [ff. 2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2782
Title:: Servius, Commentary on Virgil; a variorum commentary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-164v: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Georgica (ff. 1r-28r) and the Aeneis (ff. 28r-164v); lacking the commentary for the Ecloga; the text is edited, corrected, glossed, marked for mythological information, provided with NOTA monograms and headings, as well as interspersed and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2800
Title:: A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 1 (January-May)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in January-May. The second volume is Harley MS 2801 (June-September), and the third volume is Harley MS 2802 (October-December). Contents: ff. 1r-262r: Passional, January-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1170-c. 1180
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2801
Title:: A Passional (the 'Arnstein Passional'), volume 2 (June-September), with a fragment of a calendar
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a three-volume Passional, and contains the lives of saints for readings on feasts in June-September, and a fragment of a calendar. The first volume is Harley MS 2800 (January-May), and the third volume is Harley MS 2802 (October-December). Contents: f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1170-c. 1180
Extent:: 1 volume

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