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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3080
Title:: St Augustine, Confessiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), bishop of Hippo, Retractationes (Retractions), beginning: ‘Incipit prologus libri confessionum sancti Augustini episcopi’. ff. 2r-116r: St Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions), beginning: ‘Magnus es domine et laudabilis valde’. [f. 116v is...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3095
Title:: Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:: The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3097
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Botulphi; Vitae Tancredi, Torhtredi and Tovae; De Translatione Sanctorum Qui in Thornensi Monasterio Requiescunt; Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci; St Ambrose of Milan, Sermo de Observantia Episcoporum; Ambrose, De Misteriis; Ambrose, De Sacramentis; De Helia et Jejunio; Prologue to the Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Miracles of St Nicholas
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 419/420), followed by saints’ lives and sermons. It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot of Thorney Abbey and three saints at Thorney who were mar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century - 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3098
Title:: Liber Pancrisis
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest of three existing copies of the Liber Pancrisis (The All-Golden Book) (the other manuscripts are Avranches, Bibliothèque Municipale, 19 and Troyes, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes (olim Bibliothèque Municipale), Fonds ancien 425). This is an anthology...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1160-1170
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3104
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentariorum in Matthaeum libri octo (Commentary on Matthew in eight books), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v) and capitula (ff. 1v-2v), beginning of the Prologue: 'Memor itaque illi precepti quod per vas sibi aptum olim sapientia protulit'. ff. 3r-157v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3107
Title:: St Augustine, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: The Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). Written in Western or North-Western France (ex info. Michael Gullick), the manuscript was given by the bishop of Lucca to the Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca. Contents: ff. 1*v-147v: Augustine, Epistolae, beginning: ‘D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3145
Title:: Petrus Comestor, Pseudo-Petrus Comestor, Maurice of Sully, Geoffrey Babio, Sermones; Alain de Lille, De Sex Alis Cherubim; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript was written at and owned by the Cluniac Priory of Wenlock in Shropshire. It contains a large collection of sermons that is attributed to the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1178). The collection, however, also contains anonymous sermons, and sermons that have be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3213
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew; Remigius of Auxerre, Commentary on the Gospel of St Mark; Christian of Stavelot, Expositio in Matthaeum; St Augustine, Sermo de corpore et sanguine Domini; patristic excerpts; St Augustine, Sermo de scripturis veteribus et novis et de trinitate contra Arrianos; anonymous treatise on heresy; Hexametric verses on the canonical hours
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a compilation of several commentaries on the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, one by Remigius of Auxerre (b. c. 841, d. 908) and others attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Christian of Stavelot (fl. 865). The works form the basis for the 12th-century systemati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3241
Title:: Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Sententiae (Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160), a systematic compilation of theological texts, that was extremely popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume also contains the diagram of a tree of consanguinity, illustrating the relationships be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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