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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3845
Title:: Collectio Dacheriana
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of the Collectio Dacheriana, a collection of canon law created in Southern France, perhaps in Lyon, during the Carolingian reform in the first half of the 9th century, according to Kéry, Canonical Collections (1999). ff. 1r-147v: Collectio Dacheriana, preced...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3859
Title:: Vegetius, De rei militari; Macrobius, Saturnalia; Pseudo-Sallust, Investiva in Ciceronem; Historia Brittonum and Annales Cambriae; Augustine, De heresibus; Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium; Pseudo-Ovid, Cantus avium; De bestiis; Cosmographia; Pollio, De architectura
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Flavius Renatus Vegetius, De rei militari (On military matters) (Books 1-4), beginning: 'Antiquis temporibus mos fuit bonaru[m] artium'; ending: 'frequentior usus invenit qua[m] vet[us] doctrina monstraverat'. ff. 40v-41r: Astrological and geographical diagrams. ff. 42r-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Welsh
Date Range:: Early 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3860
Title:: History of the Kings of England and Scotland; L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome; Le Château d'amour;Manuel des Péchés; Housebondrie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-22r: Brevis historia Regum Angliae et Scotiae usque ad Henricum III (a brief history of the Kings of England and Scotland up to Henry III); ff. 23r-47r: Anonymous, L'estoire des Sept Sages de Rome (version A). ff. 48r-61v: Robert Grosseteste, Le Château d'amour. ff. 61r-77v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 82 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3883
Title:: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Antiquitates iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities) by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100). Contents: 1r-306r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae, beginning: ‘Hystoriam scribere disponentibus non una nec eandem’. Decoration: Large initials in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th 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 3904
Title:: Peter Tudebode, Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere (The History of the Journey to Jerusalem). This is an eye-witness account of the First Crusade (1095-1099) by Peter Tudebode (fl. 1100), a priest from Poitou who accompanied the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles (b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1110
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 3941/2
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3954
Title:: English miscellany with Mandeville's Travels, Piers Plowman, catechetical texts, and devotional poems.
Scope & Content:: The main part of this miscellany contains catechetical texts, some with exempla and devotional poems about the Passion in Middle English with rubricated headings in Latin. However, the manuscript is especially known for its copy of William Langland's dream-vision Piers Plowman and an illustrated...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

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

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