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81. Harley MS 2823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2823
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:
1 volume

82. Harley MS 2830

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2830
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: The Epistle of St Jerome to Damasus, with an added late 13th-century heading 'Incipit prefatio Iheronimi presbiteri', this same hand repeats the rubrics in margins. ff. 3r-5v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum. Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 5v-58v: Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

83. Harley MS 2833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2833
Title:
Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the first volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Genesis to the Book of Job with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents. The manuscript was preserved at a religious house, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

84. Harley MS 2834

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2834
Title:
The second volume of a Vulgate in two parts, containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the second volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation, with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents, and ends with the apocryphal Epistle to the L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

85. Harley MS 2886

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2886
Title:
Collectio Dacheriana, with marginalia
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of canons known as Collectio Dacheriana. It includes glosses throughout, added in the late 11th century or early 12th century. ff. 2r-v: Fragment from a 10th-century glossary. ff. 3r-104v: Collectio Dacheriana, imperfect at the end, with mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

86. Harley MS 2892

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2892
Title:
Fragment of a pontifical, the Canterbury Benedictional
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two originally separate items: ff. 1-16: a fragment of a pontifical, including an Ordo for the blessing of oils; ff. 17-214: the Canterbury Benedictional.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st-3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

87. Harley MS 2895

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2895
Title:
Psalter ('La Charité Psalter')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called 'La Charité Psalter', named after the Cluniac priory of La Charité-sur-Loire where the manuscript was produced at the end of the 12th century. A prayer for a community's abbess on f. 90v suggests that the Psalter was written for a nunnery affiliated with th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

88. Harley MS 2897

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2897
Title:
Breviary (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. The manuscript is composed of two parts: Part 1 (ff. 154r-452v) is the summer portion of the breviary made for John the Fearles and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which formed originally a single v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1440
Extent:
1 volume

89. Harley MS 2905

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2905
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript includes a calendar with Augustinian elements, followed by the Psalms, Canticles and Hymns. ff. 1r-6v: A calendar with the zodiac signs. ff. 7r-190v: Psalms, imperfect at the beginning, Psalm 1 and the first verses of Psalm 2 are lacking; beginning: '[ip]sorum. Qui ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

90. Harley MS 2915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2915
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
The illumination of this Book of Hours is attributed to the 'Fastolf Master', a French artist working in England who is named after a copy of Christine de Pisan’s Epitre d’Othea with the Livre des quatre vertus that he illuminated for Sir John Fastolf in 1450 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1440-c. 1460
Extent:
A parchment codex

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