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4021. Harley MS 652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 652
Title:
Homiliary; Lections from six lives of saints connected to St Augustine's abbey; Fragment from the homiliary attributed to Alan de Farfa
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, consists of a homiliary with 119 sermons for the period between Holy Saturday and the fourth Sunday after Epiphany. The main structure of the homiliary derives from the reconstructed collection of Paul the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4022. Harley MS 4352

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4352
Title:
Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Fide Trinitatis et de Incarnatione Verbi Contra Blasphemias Ruzelini. ff. 39v-64r: Hildebert of Lavardin, De Sacramentis. ff. 65r-72v: Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo. Decoration: Numerous large and smaller initials in gold with red out...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4023. Harley MS 5394

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5394
Title:
Bede, De schematibus et tropis; Barlaam et Iosaphat; Bartholomew the Englishman, De proprietatibus rerum (book 15); Compositio de ponderibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-1v, 62r-62v: 2 13th-century leaves containing verses from an unidentified copy of Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreis (Book 6, f. 1; Book 8, f. 62). ff. 3r-5v, 59r-60r: Bede the Venerable, De schematibus et tropis, with the incipit 'Incipit liber venerabilis Bede de figuris verbo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4024. Harley MS 3770

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3770
Title:
Scope & Content:
Ramón Lull, Theological and Philosophical Treatises; 15th cent. Latin. Copy. The MS. comprises a number of works by the Catalan theologian and mystic Ramón Lull (circa 1232-1315). The cataloguing of this MS. was funded by the Wellcome Trust and only the text relating to medicine is itemised ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

4025. Harley MS 1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1021
Title:
A collection of excerpts from scriptural commentaries
Scope & Content:
A florilegium of scriptural commentaries by Augustine, Bede, Ambrose, Jerome and others. The individual excerpts are almost all without acknowledgement of the source, and they are only sometimes grouped into larger categories. It is imperfect at the end. Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Excerpts from co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1225
Extent:
1 volume

4026. Harley MS 172

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 172
Title:
A devotional miscellany of Middle English prose and verse
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscript was written by the 'Winchester scribe', the principal scribe of the so-called 'Winchester Anthology' (Add MS 60577), a large compilation of religious prose and verse in Latin and English in which the scribe identifies himself as an anonymous Benedictine monk at St Swit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4027. Harley MS 556

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 556
Title:
Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester, 703-1101
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-122r: Excerpts from the Chronicle of John of Worcester (703-1101) or Chronicon ex chronicis by John of Worcester (fl. 1095–1140), a monk of Worcester Priory; with additional extracts annotated by Laurence Nowell (d. 1576), Archdeacon of Derby and then Dean of Lichfield. The ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4028. Harley MS 1260

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1260
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (The Percy Hours)
Scope & Content:
This prayer book contains items that are typical of a Book of Hours, including a Calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Seven Penitential Psalms, and a Litany of Saints. However, its larger part comprises prayers in Latin and Anglo Norman that are not organised according to the canonical hours. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1370
Extent:

1 volume

4029. Harley MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3776
Title:
The ‘Codex ruber’ or ‘Waltham Abbey miscellany’, part 1
Scope & Content:
The first surviving fragment of a collection of miscellaneous religious and historical tracts. The medieval numeration of the contents indicates that the folios were formerly in a different order, with ff. 25–62 coming after ff. 94–117. Four other 14th-century manuscripts, which may or may not b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1345-1360s
Extent:

Parchment codex

4030. Harley MS 612

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 612
Title:
Birgitta of Sweden, Liber Celestis Revelacionum, with tracts and documents relating to her canonisation
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts from and about St Birgitta of Sweden, divided into 14 books, and copied by Thomas Colyngbourn for the Bridgettine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary the Virgin and St Bridget of Syon [Syon Abbey], Isleworth, Middlesex. It is one of three surviving Latin m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1435 and 1457
Extent:
1 volume

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