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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3943
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-116r: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3327; for an edition, see Riverside Chaucer (1987), pp. 472-575], beginning: 'The double sorow of Troilus to tellen / that was kyng Pryamys sonne of Troye / In lovyng how his aventuris...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2998
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, imperfect, including: ff. 1r-12: Calendar. ff. 13r-16v: Gospel excerpts. ff. 17r-44v: Hours of the Virgin, imperfect, wanting leaves after f. 44 including Compline; portions of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext and Vespers specific to a liturgical use now erased (ff. 17v, 18v-1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3687
Title:: Bernard Gui, Works
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes works of Bernard Gui (b. 1261 or 1262, d. 1331), inquisitor of the Dominican order, possibly with the exception of the first text: 1. A chronicle (fragment?) , incipit: 'In primordio temporis ante omnem diem Deus pater in verbo per verbum suum fecit ex nichilo rerum omni...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1350-c 1360
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2889
Title:: Lectionary (the 'Siegburg Lectionary')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-4r: Prefatory images (see below). ff. 4v-75r: Lectionary for mass. ff. 75r-95v: The Common of Saints (ff. 75r-87v), with directions and lessons for mass (ff. 87v-93v); and readings for masses of the dead and for St Anno (ff. 94r-95v). ff. 96r-106r: Readings and responses for...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3499
Title:: 'The State of Christendom'
Scope & Content:: An essay on Christendom, by an ‘exile’ (f. 2r). Printed in 1657 as ‘The State of Christendom’, attributed to Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and writer (1568-1639). Composed c. 1594, as indicated by references to King Philip II of Spain, the plot of Roderigo Lopez to poison Queen Elizabeth I, her a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3557
Title:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, incipit: 'Carmina qui quendam studio florente', with marginal and interlinear glosses, including some in a humanistic cursive script identified with the hand of Pietro da Monagnana of Padua (see Hunt, 'Pietro da Montagnana', 1973-78). Decoration: 5 large...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5037
Title:: Breviary for Franciscan use
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-25r: Psalter, begins imperfectly in Psalm 101, incipit: ‘ut sedeant mecum’; with Litany, including St Thomas Becket and St Francis. ff. 25r-28v: Office of the Dead. ff. 28v-30v: Ordo Missae, imperfect at the end. ff. 31r-174r: Temporale, rubric: ‘Ad honore omn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5396
Title:
Scope & Content:: Composite Miscellany including Texts relating to Theology, Medicine and Poetry; mid 15th cent. and early 13th cent. Latin and Middle English. Copies. Imperfect. This composite volume consists of four different MSS. (ff. 1-142, 143-209, 210-270, 271-311) and comprises: - a) John Felton, vicar of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1200-1470
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1915
Title:: The Eusebian canon tables; Zacharias of Besançon, De Concordia Evangelistarum; Bede, Expositio Super Acta Apostolorum; Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum; Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim; Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is closely related to the readings of the New Testament as it includes a concordance on the four Gospels written by Zacharias of Besancon (d. 1157). It is followed by Bede's commentary on the Acts of Apostle, including his retractatio, a treatise in which he underlined his own mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2575
Title:: Metrical and grammatical miscellany including Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica, and Gasparino Barzizza, Tractatus de punctis
Scope & Content:: A humanistic miscellany containing various metrical and grammatical treatises by classical and humanist scholars. Contents: ff. 1r-14v: Leonicenus Omnibonus (b. 1412, d. 1480), De arte metrica, begins 'Pes in metro dicitur quod pedis fungitur officio. Metra enim per pedes...' ends 'Explicit ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Last quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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