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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3904
Title:: Peter Tudebode, Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere
Scope & Content:: This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia de Hierosolymitana itinere (The History of the Journey to Jerusalem). This is an eye-witness account of the First Crusade (1095-1099) by Peter Tudebode (fl. 1100), a priest from Poitou who accompanied the army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles (b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1100-1110
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3908
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae; Lessons on the Gospel of St Luke; Mass and Office for the feast of St. Mildreth; Historia de Sancta Mildretha in music; Textus translationis Mildrethe; John of Bridlington, Prophetia; Prophecies of Merlin
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists mainly of texts written in the 1st half of the 12th century (ff. 1r-100r), and it also includes two added texts written in the 14th century (ff. 101r-117v). ff. 1r-35r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae, (the Life of St Mildreth), with a prolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century-14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3941/2
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Breton and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3954
Title:: English miscellany with Mandeville's Travels, Piers Plowman, catechetical texts, and devotional poems.
Scope & Content:: The main part of this miscellany contains catechetical texts, some with exempla and devotional poems about the Passion in Middle English with rubricated headings in Latin. However, the manuscript is especially known for its copy of William Langland's dream-vision Piers Plowman and an illustrated...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3974
Title:: Aimoin of Fleury, Historia Francorum
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) by Aimoin of Fleury (b. c. 960, d. c. 1010), a French chronicler and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. It is thought to have been produced for Henri I (b. 1127, d. 1181), Count of Champagne, since it was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1165-c 1170
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3983
Title:: Aimon de Varennes , Florimont; Chronicle of Rheims
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-82v: Aimon (or Aimé) de Varennes, Florimont, incipit: 'Cil qui a cuer de vacelage', explicit: 'Adonc fu retrais par Aymon' with the colophon ending 'Le tiers jour de lassumption acompli sa devotion'. The poem was composed by Aimon de Varennes at Chatillon d'Azergues in the For...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and French, Old
Date Range:: 1323
Extent:: A parchment codex, 114 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3992
Title:: Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Les Voeux du Paon composed in 1312 by Jacques de Longuyon for Tibaut de Bar, bishop of Liege; imperfect: following verses are missing: 1-980; 2560-2833; 6967-7080; 7248-8784; incipit: 'Oncles dist gadifer se vostre conseil niere'; explicit: 'Si grant quil li fance et perc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4012
Title:: Collection of religious prose and verse, including The Cleansing of Man's Soul; The Charter of Our Heavenly Heritage; The Mirror of Sinners; The Twelve Degrees of Meekness; Treatise on the Apostles' Creed; Mirror of St Edmund; The Syon Pardon; Lives of St Katherine, St Margaret, and St Anne; 'St Patrick and His Purgatory'
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of religious Middle English prose and verse, which may have been made for and commissioned by its first known owner: Anne Wingfield (b. c. 1426, d. 1498) of East Harling, Norfolk, who wrote her (now erased) ownership inscription on a former flyleaf (f. 153r)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460s-1470s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4070
Title:: Psalter in Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Book of Psalms in Anglo-Norman verse with the corresponding Latin verses at the beginning of each stanza. Contents: ff. 2r-123v: The Book of Psalms in verse, with a prologue, beginning ‘Ces [ver]s sunt de salu de[l] [ri]che rei ihesu nostre duz Avue’. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4333
Title:: Anthology of Moral and Didactic poems and treatises, including works by Gossouin de Metz and Marie de France
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-70r: Gossouin (Gautier) de Metz, L'image du monde, preceded by a prologue with an introduction ending with a dedication to Count Robert d'Artois (d. 1250) and Jacques de Lorraine, Bishop of Metz (d. 1260); ff. 70r-72v: 'Li Romans de la mort' or De l'unicorne; ff. 73-96r: Mari...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 117 folios

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