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101. Harley MS 4605

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4605
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: Table of contents to Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie, with a rubric beginning, 'Cy commence la table des rubriches du livre des fais darmes & de chevalerie le quel dit livre est parti en quatre parties' (f. 2r); the main text beginning, 'La premiere partie de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

102. Harley MS 2790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2790
Title:
The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

103. Harley MS 3083

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3083
Title:
St Ambrose, Epistulae, De Obitu Theodosii and De Nabuthe Jezraelita
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves most of St Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397)'s Epistulae (Letters). It also includes two other works by Ambrose: De Obitu Theodosii (On the Death of Theodosius I) and De Nabuthe Jezraelita (On Naboth the Jezreelite). The manuscript may initially have been part of a larger volume ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

104. 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

105. Harley MS 2763

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2763
Title:
Priscian: Institutiones grammaticae (1-16); Ausonius: Idyllium 20
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves the first sixteen books of Priscian (fl. 500)’s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), a key work for learning Latin in the Middle Ages, including marginal and interlinear glosses in various hands of a later date. The glosses suggest that the manuscript was used...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

106. Harley MS 4772

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4772
Title:
The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
Scope & Content:
This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

107. Harley MS 4773

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4773
Title:
The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
Scope & Content:
This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

108. Harley MS 1321

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1321
Title:
Chansons from the cycles of William of Orange and Aimeri de Narbonne
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chansons de Geste from the cycles of William of Orange (Guillaume d'Orange): and Aimeri de Narbonne (Aymeri de Nerbonne) ff. 4r-38v: Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Girart de Vienne (Girard de Viane), 5,560 lines, lacking 1 leaf at the beginning that perhaps contained a miniature; ff. 3...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1225-1275
Extent:

1 volume

109. 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

110. Harley MS 225

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 225
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum; Epistre de Sibille
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r–78r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, De Gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae), including 15th-century annotations. ff. 78v–79v: Epistre de Sibille (Epistle to Sibille), with the heading: ‘Ceste lepistre de Sibille Ffraunce’, prophecy in Old French added in the mid-14th century, beginning: 'L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

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