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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2381
Title:
Scope & Content:: Compendium of Medical Recipes; mid 15th cent. Middle English and Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the medical texts are fully itemised in the description. The MS. contains one large collection of medical recipes and three others very sho...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3962
Title:: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-74v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicon, with continuations (ff. 69v-74v) by Jerome and Prosper of Aquitaine. ff. 75r-82r: Alphabetical index of names in the Chronicon, attributed to Andreas Julianus of Venice (b. 1384, d. 1452), entitled: 'Andreæ Juliani viri patritii veneti et...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 979
Title:: Theological miscellany, including Innocent III, De contemptu mundi
Scope & Content:: f. 2*: Added table of contents in a near-contemporary hand. f. 1r: Three verses: ‘Sunt sacramenta septem. lauacrum caro cristi. / Ordo sacer. crismatio presulis et patientis. / Unctio postrema. confessio coniugiumque.’ ff. 1r–37v: ‘Ysagoge magistri Hugonis in euidentiam theologie. et primum de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4941
Title:: Papers relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral and other churches in the City of London
Scope & Content:: A volume, containing manuscript and printed material, relating to the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral, and other churches in the City of London, after the Great Fire of London. Contents: ff. 1-19: ‘His Majesties Commission concerning the Reparation of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Lond...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1663-1690
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3239
Title:: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg, Compendium theologiae; commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council; Bonaventure, Breviloquium pauperis; Gerard van Vliederhoven, Cordiale quatuor novissimorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-102v: Hugh Ripelin of Strasburg (here attributed to Thomas Aquinas), Compendium theologiae (Compendium theologicae veritatis). ff. 103r-175v: Commentaries on the Fourth Lateran Council, beginning with Konrad von Soltau's Lectura super Firmiter credimus: 'Firmiter credimus et ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3834
Title:: Bernard of Papia, Breviarium Decretalium; Ordo iudiciorum; Ordo Criminalia iudicia; Gilbertus Anglicus, Collectio Gilberti aucta; Gregory IX, Decretales
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-121v: Bernard of Papia, Breviarium Decretalium. ff. 122r-127v: Ordo iudiciorum [Pseudo-Ulpian, De edendo]. ff. 128r-139v: Ordo Criminalia iudicia. ff. 140r-201v: Gilbertus Anglicus, Collectio Gilberti aucta. ff. 202r-356v: Gregorius IX, Decretales, here entitled: 'De summ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 838
Title:: Collection of heraldic and genealogical works, including Mirabilia Orientis, Mirabilia Anglie, and a Middle English translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre d'Othéa; Annales Cambriae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two distinct parts that were copied separately and joined together at an unknown point before the manuscript reached the Harleian Library. The first part (ff. 1r-95r) contains heraldic works, chronicles and other historical items, and one of the two extant independen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1208
Title:: Statutes of England; Walter of Henley, Housbondrie; Ralph of Hengham, Summa Magna and Summa Parva; Seneschaucie
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Lists of chapters of English statutes. ff. 4r-6v: 'Magna Carta'; imperfect. ff. 7r-9r: 'Carta de Foresta'. ff. 9r-10r: 'Sentencia lata super Cartas et cetera'. ff. 10r-13r: 'Statutum de Merton'. ff. 13r-19v: 'Statutum de Marleberge'. ff. 19v-33r: 'Statuta Westm...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2659
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistolae morales ad Lucilium; Pseudo-Seneca, Proverbia, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae Morales ad Lucilium (The Moral Letters to Lucilius) by the Roman Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also contains several works attributed to Seneca, including the Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca’s Letters t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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