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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4826
Title:: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres; Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes.
Scope & Content:: ff. 4r-50v: John Lydgate, The Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund. ff. 52r-81r: John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees of Old Philisoffres. ff. 84r-144v: Thomas Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes. ff. 145rv-146v, and f. 139r (lower margin): Added English lyrics, 16th century. The manuscript contains...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450 – c 1460
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4831
Title:: Paulinus of Nola, Letters and Poems
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of works written by Paulinus of Nola (d. 431), including letters, Carmina varia (poems) and the first ten Natalicia (a collection of poems dedicated to anniversary of St Felix of Nola). The numbers following the prose-epistles, which have not...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st or 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4903
Title:: Continuations of the Roman des sept sages
Scope & Content:: Contents: Continuations of the Roman des sept sages. There are 7 continuations or sequels to the Roman des sept sages de Rome. This copy is now divided into two volumes, of which this is the second, containing part of the fourth and the fifth and sixth romances. ff. 1-16: Helcanus (final part...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4904
Title:: St Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Enarrationes in Psalmos (Commentary on the Psalms) by the Church Father St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 2nd half of the 12th century, perhaps at the Cistercian abbey of Sancta Maria de Rupe (St Mary of the Rock) at Maltby in South Yorks...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4927
Title:: Cicero, various speeches, De amicitia and Paradoxa Stoicorum; Pseudo-Sallust, Invectiva in Ciceronem
Scope & Content:: This manuscript preserves several of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s orations, his treatises on friendship (De amicitia) and on the paradoxes of the Stoics (Paradoxa stoicorum) as well as a work spuriously attributed to Sallust and known as Sallust's oration against Cicero (Invecti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4940
Title:: Matfre Ermengaud, Breviari d'amor
Scope & Content:: Contents: Matfre Ermengaud (Matfres Ermengau, Eymengau) de Beziers, Breviari d'Amor. An encyclopedic work explaining how the world is an emanation of love, it consists of 34,550 lines in verse in the Occitan dialect composed between 1288 and 1292. Decoration: 2 full-page miniatures with fol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Occitan, Old
Date Range:: Mid 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 232 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4951
Title:: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales; Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is formed of two parts that were produced separately in Southern France. The first part (ff. 1-118) was produced in the last quarter of the 12th or 3rd quarter of the 13th century and contains the sermons for Sundays attributed to John Halgren of Abbeville (d. 1237), Fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century -1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4967
Title:: Peter of Blois, Speculum Iuris Canonici; Justinian, Institutiones; Liber Catonianus
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript is made of two parts produced at different locations and times. The first part (ff. 5r-76r) contains the Speculum Iuris Canonici (The Mirror of Canon Law) by the late-12th century theologian Peter of Blois and the Institutiones (Institutions) by Emperor Justinian I (b. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1250
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4978
Title:: St Jerome, Sermo de persecutione christianorum; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (books 1-5); Collection of canon law
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-3v: An unidentified obituary, imperfect. ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Sermo de persecutione christianorum (Sermon on the persecution of Christians). ff. 5r-7v: A collection of patristic citations, beginning: 'Sanctus Ciprianus: hec est voluntas Dei'. ff. 8r-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4979
Title:: Roman d'Alexandre in prose
Scope & Content:: Contents: This copy of the Roman d'Alexandre in prose is one of the three extant manuscripts of the 2nd recension, known as 'Redaction II'. The other two manuscripts are Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78.C.I and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 11040. Incipit (prologue): 'La terre de machido...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1290-c 1300
Extent:: A parchment codex, 87 folios

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