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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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2920
Title:: Collection of texts relating to the order of service, made for an Italian house of Poor Clares
Scope & Content:: A collection of texts relating to the order of service, probably made for an Italian house of Poor Clares, as suggested by repeated references to the Order's founders St Francis and St Clare of Assisi (e.g. ff. 10v, 16r, 27r). The manuscript was written in two parts: the first part (ff. 1-24) wa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1518-3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2928
Title:: Psalter; Expositio Hymnorum; an Old Occitan translation of the Gospel of St John (Chapters 13 to 17); a Benediction in verse; Alcuin, De Laude Psalmorum; the canon Si Quis Suadente from the II Lateran Council (1139)
Scope & Content:: Contents: This 12th-century manuscript from the South of France (Aquitaine) consists of a Psalter with litanies, hymns and an Old Occitan version of the Gospel of St John (chapters 13 to 17). It ends with Alcuin's treatise about the use of the book of Psalms, followed by a canon from the II Lat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2939
Title:: Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
Scope & Content:: This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2961
Title:: Leofric Collectar
Scope & Content:: The Leofric Collectar, comprising a collectar, a hymnal and a series of sequences for a community of secular canons. The manuscript is imperfect: it ends mid-sequence and appears to be missing its final quire. Judging by its script, it was made at Exeter during the episcopate of Bishop Leofric ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1050-1072
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2965
Title:: The Book of Nunnaminster
Scope & Content:: A decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels. The text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 7653 (the Harley Prayerbo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to 1st quarter of 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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