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4191. Harley MS 2642

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2642
Title:
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Carmina
Scope & Content:
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), Carmina, incipit: 'Mecenas atavis edite regibus.' Decoration: 2 large initials in gold with white vine decoration in colours and foliate extensions (ff. 1r, 21r). Numerous plain initials in blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

4192. Harley MS 3248

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3248
Title:
Willelmus Durandus, Rationale divinorum officiorum
Scope & Content:
Willelmus Durandus (Guillaume Durand), Rationale divinorum officiorum, incipit: 'Quecumque in ecclesiasticis officis.' Decoration: Large initials in blue with red-pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1462
Extent:
1 volume

4193. Harley MS 3821

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3821
Title:
The Vocation of John Bale
Scope & Content:
Copy of The vocacyon of Johan Bale, by John Bale (1495–1563), bishop of Ossory, evangelical polemicist, and historian. First published in 1553. f. 1r: Title, partly cut off. ‘The Vocation of John Bale to the bishopricke of ossorie in Irelande his preservations in the same and finall deliverance...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1552-1553
Extent:
1 volume

4194. Harley MS 4919

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4919
Title:
Noted Missal, use of Sarum
Scope & Content:
Noted Missal, use of Sarum, imperfect. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r:-226v: Temporale. ff. 226v-229v: Mass for the dedication of the church. ff. 229v-293v: Sanctorale. ff. 293v-338v: Common of the Saints with votive masses (ff. 221v-338v). Decoration: Full bar borders and initials in colou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1400
Extent:
Parchment codex

4195. Harley MS 4979

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4979
Title:
Roman d'Alexandre in prose
Scope & Content:
Contents: This copy of the Roman d'Alexandre in prose is one of the three extant manuscripts of the 2nd recension, known as 'Redaction II'. The other two manuscripts are Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, MS 78.C.I and Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 11040. Incipit (prologue): 'La terre de machido...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
c 1290-c 1300
Extent:
A parchment codex, 87 folios

4196. Harley MS 1298

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1298
Title:
Richard of Saint-Victor, Allegoriae in Vetus et Novum Testamentum; Pseudo-Robert Grosseteste, Summa Justiciae; Robert Grosseteste, De Decem Mandatis and De Confessione; Thomas Docking, De Decem Mandatis; Tabula super Consolatione Peccatorum; John Chrysostom, collection of sermons; extracts from John Chrysostom's sermons and Pseudo-John Chrysostom's Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–47v: Richard of Saint-Victor [Pseudo-Hugh of Saint-Victor], Allegoriae in Vetus et Novum Testamentum (Allegories in the Old and New Testaments), beginning: 'In precedentibus premissa descriptione originis et discrecionis artium et quorundam aliorum ortum cursum'. ff. 49r–84v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4197. Harley MS 2713

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2713
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-12th century
Extent:

1 volume

4198. Harley MS 2736

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2736
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore; Lupus of Ferrières, Carmina 8; excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus's Carmina
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s De oratore, copied by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 800, d. 863) around 836, according to Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930). Lupus produced this manuscript perhaps from Eginhard's exemplar (see Beeson, Lupus of Ferrières (1930)). This volume als...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4199. Harley MS 816

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 816
Title:
Sir Robert Cotton, An aunswer made by Command of Prince Henry, to certaine propositions of Warr and Peace deliuered to his Highnes by some of his Millitarie Servants
Scope & Content:
King James I and VI commissioned Sir Robert Cotton to write this fourteen-point treatise based on classical authorities and recent historical examples. It refutes the claims made in the pamphlet entitled 'Arguments for Warre', produced by Prince Henry's military advisors in 1608. These works cam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4200. Harley MS 4699

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4699
Title:
Collection of saints' Lives, including Paul the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4r: Sulpicius Severus, Liber de Vita Sancti Martini; imperfect at the beginning. ff. 4r-33v: Paul the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni. ff. 33v-57v: Leontius of Neapolis, Vita Joanni Elemosynari. ff. 58r-62v: Constantius of Lyon, Vita Germani (fragment). ff. 63r-66v: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

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