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Reference (shelfmark) Harley MS 498 Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

1. Harley MS 4980

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4980
Title:
Augustine, Fragment from De civitate Dei; Bede, Expositio actuum apostolorum; De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi and other Alcuin's works
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three parts of different origin and period, perhaps bound together in the 13th century in Carcassone, according to Knibbs and Matter, Alcuini (2012). Laistner, 'The Spanish Archetype of MS Harley 4980' (1936) argues that 'textual and orthographic peculiarities' in th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century-9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Harley MS 4984

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4984
Title:
Collection of texts about St Martin of Tours: Sulpicius Severus, Vita Sancti Martini, Epistolae, Dialogi (books 1-3); Gregory of Tours, De Virtutibus Sancti Martini and Libri Octo Miraculorum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of texts on the life, miracles and translation of St Martin of Tours (d. 397) by Sulpicius Severus (b. c. 363, d. c. 425) and Gregory of Tours (b. c. 538, d. 594). The manuscript was written for a monastic audience, as is indicated by a contempo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume