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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3027
Title:: Augustine of Hippo (and Pseudo-Augustine), various theological works; Prosper of Aquitaine, Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Vincentianarum; sermon collection with texts by Pseudo-Augustine, Pseudo-Eusebius and Origen; Paulinus of Aquileia, Liber Exhortationis ad Quendam Comitem
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century English manuscript contains a collection of sermons, and theological writings by and spuriously attributed to the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), and his disciple Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, c. 455). The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produced ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3030
Title:: Origen, Super Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos; St Jerome, Commentariorum In Epistolam Pauli ad Ephesios
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two commentaries on the Pauline epistles written respectively by Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254) and St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). This volume was produced in the 2nd half of the 11th century in Western Germany, perhaps Paderborn. Fragments from a 9th-century text of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3033
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-124v: Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604), Moralia in Job (Morals on the Book of Job), beginning: 'Reverentissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servuus servorum'; imperfect ending (book 5, chapter 46): 'quia tabescentem mentem sua pena sauceat, quam felic...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3034
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts); St Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion; Candidus Wizo, Sermons and Opusculum de passione domini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-10r: Excerpts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636), Etymologiae (Etymologies)books VI, VIII, XV, XVII, XIX, XX, with added titles in the margins (ff. 9v-10r). For detailed contents, see Steinová 'Innovating Knowledge' online. ff. 11v-58r: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3044
Title:: St Jerome, Epistulae and other works
Scope & Content:: This large manuscript contains the Epistulae (Letters) by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), the Vita Hieronymi (The Life of St Jerome), attributed to Sebastian of Monte Cassino, as well as the famous story of St Jerome and the lion. The manuscript lacks at least one leaf at the beginning, as the op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3061
Title:: Paschasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 52; Lanfranc of Canterbury, De corpore et sanguine domini; Caesarius of Arles, De igne purgatorio
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains theological texts and sermons mainly focusing on the Eucharist. The last text of the manuscript is probably a contemporary addition written by a different scribe, according to Gullick, 'Professional Scribes' (1995). Contents: f. 1r: List of contents, added in the 14th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3063
Title:: Ambrosiaster, In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam; Theodore of Mopsuestia, Commentarii in Epistulas Pauli Minores
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-38v: Ambrosiaster (fl. 370), In Epistulam Beati Pauli ad Corinthios Secundam (Ambrosiaster's commentary on St Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians), (imperfect), 8 quires are lacking at the beginning: '[...] vincitur quod Apostolus semper sprevit', ending: 'perfectio consum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century-1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3072
Title:: Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Eclogues; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Hymns; Arator, Historia Apostolica; Pirminius, sermons; Prudentius, Cathemerinon; Servius, Commentary on Georgics; Priscian, Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This volume consists of different parts that were bound together at an early period. The first part (ff. 1r-6r) was written in the second half of the 10th century. The second part (ff. 7r-87r) was produced in the third quarter of the 10th century. The third part (ff. 87r-90v) contains sermons co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3073
Title:: Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons; Adnotationes Elucidatoriae in Quosdam Psalmos David; Two offices with responsory, lections and sequences
Scope & Content:: This manuscript may be the presentation copy of the text given by Nicholas of Clairvaux to count Henry I of Champagne (d. 1181), according to Benton, 'Nicolas of Clairvaux and the Twelfth-Century Sequence' (1962), p. 163, n. 44. Nicholas of Clairvaux was appointed the head of the Benedictine pri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3079
Title:: Homiliary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-296v: A collection of homilies (sermons) by Haimo of Halberstadt (b. c. 778, d. 853), Bede (b. 672, d. 735), Fulgentius Ferrandus (fl. c. 500), St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. c. 340), St Caesarius of Arles (b. c. 468, d. 542) and others, for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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