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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 603
Title:: Psalter (the 'Harley Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Psalter, known as the 'Harley Psalter', imperfect. The illustration of the manuscript is copied from the Utrecht Psalter (Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 32). The text is mostly the Roman version, except Psalms 100-105 which are Gallican (see Abbot Gasquet and Edmund Bishop, The Bosworth P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1802
Title:: Gospels of Máel Brigte
Scope & Content:: This manuscript, known as the Gospels of Máel Brigte, is a Latin Gospel-book with additional texts and extensive marginal and interlinear glosses in Latin and Irish, especially in the Gospel of St Matthew. The glosses used to be associated with the cathedral school in Paris (following Glunz, 'Th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 1138
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2666
Title:: Sextus Iulius Frontinus, Strategemata
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Strategemata (Stratagems) by Sextus Iulius Frontinus (b. c. 30, d. 104), a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history. It represents the oldest extant copy of Frontinus’ work (see Bachrach, ‘A Lying Legacy’ (2007), p. 160). Contents: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2798-2799
Title:: Bible ('The Arnstein Bible')
Scope & Content:: Bible, known as 'The Arnstein Bible', formed of two volumes: Harley MS 2798 and Harley MS 2799. For detailed descriptions see the individual entries for Harley MS 2798 and Harley MS 2799.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1172
Extent:: Two parchment volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2891
Title:: Missal, use of Paris
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-3v: Added (late 14th century) tract on the Mass, perhaps by Guillaume d'Auvergne (b. 1180/90, d. 1249), Bishop of Paris, incipit: 'Consilium domini guillielmi episcopi parisiensis de ministerio et negligentiis altaris'; ff. 4r-8v: Added (late 14th century) praye...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1317-1318
Extent:: A parchment codex, 385 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2907
Title:: Missal, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Missal, Use of Rome. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-8v: Exorcisms of salt and water, and benediction of wine. ff. 9r-18v: Gospel and readings for the Palm Sunday, rubric: 'Passio domini nostri ihesu christi secundum matheum.' ff. 19r-76r: Proprium de tempore, with rubrics referring to the Roma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1464
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 534
Title:: Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum; De sex verbis Domini in cruce; Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-30r: Arnold of Bonneval, De operibus sex dierum. ff. 31r-49v: Arnold of Bonneval, De sex verbis Domini in cruce. ff. 49v-53r: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons. Decoration: 1 large initial in red and blue on a light brown ground, with penwork decoration and reserved designs (f....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Last quarter of the 12th century or 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 232
Title:: A miscellany of theological and ecclesiastical tracts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: A selection of draft indentures relating to different ecclesiastical properties. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, First Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Second Epistle to St John the Evangelist. f. 7v: Pseudo-Ignatius, Epistle to the Blessed Virgin Mary,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2803
Title:: Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Genesis to Job
Scope & Content:: First volume of a two-volume monumental Bible (the second volume is Harley MS 2804, Psalms to Acts 16:17, imperfect), containing the Latin Vulgate from Genesis to Job. Decoration: 1 large miniature in colours and gold of Jerome writing, before his preface (f. 1v). 19 very large historiated in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex; 301 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4409
Title:: Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignons
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes: 1. Ordinances of the Confraternity of Saint Denis, Rouen, title: 'Ci enssieuvent les bien qui font fais de iour en iour en la confrarie dieu et monseigneur saint Denis de rouen'; incipit: 'Premierement il est ordene' (ff. 1r-2v). 2. Vie de saint Denys et ses compaignon...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1420
Extent:: Parchment codex.

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