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41. Harley MS 3571

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3571
Title:
A Life of the Virgin Mary and Christ, in Italian
Scope & Content:
This manuscript features an Italian text that can be described as a vita of the Virgin Mary and Christ, although it also highlights the role of St Joseph after Christ's death. The narrative starts with the Virgin's birth and childhood and ends with her assumption into heaven. Perhaps another ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

42. Harley MS 3883

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3883
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Antiquitates iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities) by the Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100). Contents: 1r-306r: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae, beginning: ‘Hystoriam scribere disponentibus non una nec eandem’. Decoration: Large initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

43. Harley MS 1717

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1717
Title:
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Chronique des ducs de Normandie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Chronique des ducs de Normandie (Chronicles of the Dukes of Normany), which is believed to have been composed by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (fl. 1160-70) while he was in the service of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. The Chronique begins with Creation and ends with th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

44. Harley MS 4412

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4412
Title:
Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job followed by a table of contents.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-266v: Bible Historiale from Genesis to Job. ff. 267r-272v: Table of contents beginning: 'En ce Livre est contenue la Bible et pour trouver chacun chappitre par feuillets, la table s'ensuit'. Decoration: The outer bifolio in each quire is made of parchment. Watermark of a pot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
Paper and parchment codex, 272 folios.

45. Harley MS 2833

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2833
Title:
Vulgate Bible, volume 1, Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the first volume of an illuminated Latin Vulgate in two parts. It contains the Book of Genesis to the Book of Job with prologues that are attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and tables of contents. The manuscript was preserved at a religious house, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

46. Harley MS 3954

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

47. Harley MS 4487

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4487
Title:
Aimon de Varennes, Roman de Florimont
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Roman de Florimont by Aimon de Varennes. Aimon wrote his work at Chatillon d'Azergues in the Forez region near Lyon in 1188. The poem, consisting of over 13000 lines, is in the Lyonnais dialect and relates the adventures of Florimont, the fictitious grandfather of Al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1295
Extent:

1 volume

48. Harley MS 2767

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2767
Title:
Vitruvius, De Architectura
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (fl. 40 BC), De Architectura (On Architecture). It is the oldest known extant copy of this work. Two leaves from Harley MS 2767 are now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Rawlinson MS D. 893, ff. 135, 136). Contents: ff. 1r-162v: Marcus Vitruvi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

49. Harley MS 234

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 234
Title:
Gospel of John, with marginal and interlinear Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century French manuscript contains the Gospel of John with commentary by Church Fathers and medieval authorities (Glossa Ordinaria) added to its margins and between the text's lines. ff. 1r–56r: The Gospel of John, with marginal and interlinear Glossa Ordinaria, imperfect at the begin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

50. Harley MS 1700

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1700
Title:
The Twelve Minor Prophets with marginal and interlinear glosses.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament with prologues and commentary in interlinear and marginal glosses. Contents: f. 1* recto: A prologue to the Book of Amos, Chapter 2 (‘Prefatio Jeronimi in Amos propheta super secundum librum’). ff. 1r-1v: A prologue to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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