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51. Harley MS 1916

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1916
Title:
St Augustine, Tractatus in evangelium Iohannis and In epistulam Iohannis ad Parthos tractatus
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains an incomplete version of the commentary on Gospel of St John and the First Epistle of St John by the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript's first leaf has been removed and bound into Harley MS 5958 (f. 87). It contains a list ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

52. Harley MS 1918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1918
Title:
Homiliary with lectiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Homilia in Vigilia Paschalis, beginning: 'In Sancto Sabbato secundum Mattheum. Que luscecit in primam (sic) sabbati [...] Omelia Venerabilis Bede presbiteri, de eadem lectione. Vigilias nobis hujus sacratissime noctis', ending: 'qui vivit et reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

53. Harley MS 1924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1924
Title:
Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-2v) and capitula (ff. 2v-3v), ending at chapter 42: 'et involutum novo amictu corpus levique in theca reconditum supra pavimentum sanctuarii composuerunt' (f. 48v). Chapters 41 and 44-46 are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

54. Harley MS 2340

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2340
Title:
Collection of treatises on hawking, including the 'J. B. Treatise'
Scope & Content:
This pocket-sized manuscript contains a collection of three Middle English treatises on the subject of hawking, including a version of the so-called 'J. B. Treatise'. The text contains a hierarchy of hawks and owners (including the line, 'A kesterell for a knafe', f. 50r) as well as a final sect...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

55. Harley MS 2388

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2388
Title:
Of Three Arrows on Doomsday; Mirrour for Maydenes; The Five Wiles of King Pharaoh; Adam and Eve; Four Errors; A Sentence of Saint Bernard; Te Deum; Speculum Sacerdotis; Litera de Vita et Morte; Speculum Christiani (excerpts); Contra obstinatos; collection of Latin sermons
Scope & Content:
This theological manuscript may consist of two parts (ff. 1r-37v and ff. 38r-112v) that were produced separately and joined at a later point in time. The manuscript contains Middle English theological treatises and poems and Latin sermons. Among its contents is a the unique copy of the Mirrour f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

56. Harley MS 2407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2407
Title:
Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

57. Harley MS 2430

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2430
Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This prayer-book presents a carefully designed programme of devotional exercises and prayers contemplating Christ’s suffering for a female reader who is identified as a servant in a household. The prayer-book’s compiler seeks to engage its female reader with the contents by using a range of imag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

58. Harley MS 2608

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2608
Title:
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the epic poem Thebais (Thebaid) by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (b. 45, d. 96). Contents: ff. 2r-110r: Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais, with marginal and interlinear glosses, preceded by a verse of the 5th-century poet Coelius Sedulius (fl. 5th century): ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

59. Harley MS 2624

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

60. Harley MS 2637

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2637
Title:
Cassiodorus, Oratio (Institutiones 1, 32); Cassiodorus, Institutiones, book 2; added chants; Helisachar, Epistola ad Nibridium archiepiscopum Narbonensem; a list of verbs; Smaragdus, Liber in Partibus Donati
Scope & Content:
Contents: This Lotharingian manuscript consists of four parts written in the 2nd or 3rd half of the 9th century, except the chants and Helisachar's Epistle (ff. 53r-55r), which have been written in the 2nd half of the 10th century. ff. 1r-2v: Cassiodorus, Oratio, excerpted from the Institution...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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