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4161. Harley MS 3999

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3999
Title:
Collection of devotional texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a miscellany of devotional texts produced in one campaign as a collection: ff. 1r-24r: Le trésor attributed to Jean de Meun, rubric: 'Icy commence le tresor maistre Jehan de Mehun', incipit: 'O glorieuse trinite'. ff. 25r-65v: Pierre de Nesson, Les vigiles des morts, ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1430-c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

4162. Harley MS 5004

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5004
Title:
Aristotle and Pseudo-Aristotle, Works
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of works by or attributed to Aristotle in Latin translations: 1. Ethica (ff. 2r-64v); 2. Politica (ff. 64v-136v); 3. Rhetorica (ff. 137r-181r) 4. Pseudo-Aristotle, Economica (ff. 181v-184v) 5. Magna moralia (184v-208v). f. 1 is a flyleaf including the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4163. Harley MS 649

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 649
Title:
Bede, In Canticum Canticorum Expositio; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Radegundis; Bede, Expositio Actuum Apostolorum; Commentarius in Epistolas Canonicas; Homiliae Evangelii; In Tobiam; Anonymous sermons on Luke 11:33 and Luke 4:14
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of biblical commentaries and homilies by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735), and the Vita Sancti Radegundis (Life of St Radegund) by Venantius Fortunatus (b. c. 530, d. c. 600/609), a poet at the Merovingian court. The manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4164. Harley MS 2631

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2631
Title:
Cicero, De senectute; Paradoxa stoicorum; Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Invectiva ad hypocritas; Cicero Novus; Plutarch, Vita Demosthenis, in a Latin translation by Leonardus Brunus Aretinus; Demosthenes, De Chersoneso; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; De amicitia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of classical and humanistic texts including a number of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), Plutarch's Life of Demosthenes, and a biography of Cicero by the Italian historian and statesman Leonardus Brunus Aretinus (b. 1370...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1427-1430
Extent:
1 volume

4165. Harley MS 3081

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3081
Title:
Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Vitis mystica; Bernard of Clairvaux, De consideratione; Giovanni Boccaccio, Griselda; and other texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in heremo. ff. 101r-102v: De Sancta Monica matre sancti Augustini. ff. 102r-103r: Pope Calixtus, De conversione sancti Augustini episcopi. ff. 103r-104r: Sigebert of Gembloux, In epistola ad Macedoniam de beato Augustino. ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1407
Extent:
1 volume

4166. Harley MS 4123

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4123
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae; Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae; Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscripts of two parts that were produced separately. Part 1 (ff. 2r-126r) was written in the Southern Netherlands in 1349. Part 2 was written in England or the Southern Netherlands in the 2nd half of the 14th century. Contents: Part 1: ff. 2r-49r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Hist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1349-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4167. Harley MS 3074

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3074
Title:
Letters of Pope Leo I; Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: Faded theological text, written in 2 columns, beginning: 'Virtus peccati lex est quia lex prohibendo / Incitat affectum peccandi in reprimendo'. ff. 2v-86v: Pope Leo I [Leo the Great], Epistolae (Collection of 56 letters). ff. 86v-89v: Pope Hilarius, Letters to Ascanius of T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4168. Harley MS 2939

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2939
Title:
Obituary calendar of the Augustinian convent of St Margaret in Gouda; Rule of St Augustine; Sermon of Bernard of Clairvaux; Usuard, Martyrology; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Expositio in Regulam S. Augustini
Scope & Content:
This manuscript served as a 'chapter book' for the Augustinian convent of the canonesses regular of St Margaret in Gouda, South Holland, in the Netherlands. The manuscript opens with a necrology, or obituary calendar, from the convent from which was read at the convent's daily chapter meetings t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4169. Harley MS 2407

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2407
Title:
Alchemical treatises, recipes and poems, including Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Account of the Philosopher’s Stone; Geber, On the Virtue of the Planets and of the Philosopher’s Stone; and John Lydgate, The Chorle and the Bird
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Names of herbs related to individual planets, beginning: 'Herba Saturni / Anglice Affodill'. f. 2r: Verses on lunar cycles following the days of the week. f. 2r: Recipe, beginning: ‘To make Mustard to bere […]'. f. 2v: Middle English poem on Mercury, beginning: 'And thou wed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4170. Harley MS 3337

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3337
Title:
Collection of religious treatises, sermons and excerpts by Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux and Anselm of Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Augustine, De disciplina Christiana. ff. 5r-10v: Augustine, Unde malum. f. 11r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sententiae quaedam contemplativae, beginning: 'Dominus noster Iesus Christus in die palmarum Ierusalem iturus congruam elegit viam'. ff. 11r-14r: Guigo II, Meditatione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

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