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4631. Harley MS 5022

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5022
Title:
Statutes of England; a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–6v: Calendar. ff. 7r–35v: Capitulatio statutorum, listing the titles of the statutes in the collection. ff. 37r–114v: Texts of the statutes, beginning with Magna Carta, in Latin and Anglo-Norman French (ends imperfectly). Decoration: Initials with penwork decoration in red ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4632. Harley MS 5026

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5026
Title:
Collections of sermons and expositions on the Psalms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains sermons and expositions on the Psalms, and seems to comprise three parts that may have been produced separately in the 13th century Part 1 (ff. 1r-42v); Part 2 (ff. 43r-139r); Part 3 (ff. 140r-145v). It contains a previously unnoticed line in Early Middle English on f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4633. Harley MS 5032

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5032
Title:
Collection of sermons for the liturgical year
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-247v: Collection of sermons for the liturgical year; imperfect at the beginning and end; beginning: 'et redemptor eius ego primus et ego novissimus'. Its contents are similar to Sermones dominicales plurimum singulares, nam subtiles sunt pariter et familiares, per cursum anni, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4634. Harley MS 5036

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5036
Title:
Prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of a prayer-book (ff. 1r-22r) that may have been written in the late 15th or early 16th century, with later additions in the first half of the 16th century (ff. 22r-28r), and second half of the 16th century (ff. 28v-43v). The contents of the latter part suggest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Middle
Date Range:
c 1475-c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

4635. Harley MS 5037

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5037
Title:
Breviary for Franciscan use
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-25r: Psalter, begins imperfectly in Psalm 101, incipit: ‘ut sedeant mecum’; with Litany, including St Thomas Becket and St Francis. ff. 25r-28v: Office of the Dead. ff. 28v-30v: Ordo Missae, imperfect at the end. ff. 31r-174r: Temporale, rubric: ‘Ad honore omn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4636. Harley MS 5040

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5040
Title:
English alchemical work based on Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50v: An acephalous alchemical work, imperfect at the beginning due to the loss of folios, following the structures of the twelve grados and the concluding Recapitulatio in Guido di Montanor's Scala Philosophorum; attributed in a poem at the end to an author from Cirencester: 'H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4637. Harley MS 5041

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5041
Title:
A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4638. Harley MS 5042

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5042
Title:
David of Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione secundum triplicem statum incipientium, proficientium et perfectorum libri tres
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Formula novitiorum, a work on monastic asceticism by David of Augsburg (d. 1272), a Franciscan friar. The work survives in almost 400 manuscripts, but is not identified in the only edition of the work: De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione (1899)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4639. Harley MS 5044

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5044
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Brevium; Robert Grosseteste, Rules for Household and Estate Management (Les Reules Seynt Robert), Rules for his Own Household, Statutes for the Diocese of Lincoln, Treatise on Confession; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript predominantly contains copies of well-known English statutes of the 13th century, but it also includes previously unknown copies of Anglo-Norman and Latin works by the 13th-century authors Robert Grosseteste (b. c. 1170, d. 1253) and Walter of Henley (fl. c. 1260). It includes hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4640. Harley MS 5049

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5049
Title:
Book of Hours for the use of Rome
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-106v: Book of Hours for the use of Rome. Decoration: 24 small miniatures forming partial borders, in colours and gold, for the calendar (ff. 2r-7v). 14 full-page miniatures in architectural frames, in colours and gold (ff. 8r, 13r, 16r, 30r, 39r, 42r, 45r, 48r, 51r, 55r, 66r, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Undetermined
Date Range:
c 1510-c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

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