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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1797
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum (volume 1)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the first volume of a two-volume Missal of Sarum use; the second volume is Harley MS 1798: ff. 1r-235r: Temporale. ff. 235r-242v: Dedication of the Church. ff. 242v-244r: Blessings for the lessons of Matins (Benedictiones matutinales). ff. 246r-255v: Votive masses, imperfec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1405-c 1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 1798
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum (volume 2)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume Missal of Sarum use; the first volume is Harley MS 1797. Contents: ff. 1r-81v: Psalter with litanies including the following saints: Swithun, Birinus, Affra, Edith, Nigasius, Audomar, Paternus, Patrick, Dunstan, Grimibald, Ragenfledis, Batild...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1405-c 1410
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2454
Title:: Commentaries on T. Maccius Plautus, Comediae
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes commentaries on eight comedies of Plautus: ff. 1r-23r: Commentary on the Amphitryon, incipit: 'Ut vos in vostris pro introductione huius comedie que inscribitur Amphitrio notandum est quod [thebis] fuit quidam princeps.' This commentary is also included in Biblioteca Ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2507
Title:: M. Annaeus Lucanus, De bello civili
Scope & Content:: M. Annaeus Lucanus, De bello civili (also known as Pharsalia), incipit: '[B]ella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos'; prefaced by Lucan's epitaph, incipit: 'Corduba me genuit rapuit nero.' Includes numerous added commentaries in the margins. Decoration: Space left for large initials. 1 init...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2985
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum, made in the Southern Netherlands for the English market. The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar, with the following English saints: David, Chad, Edward, Richard of Chichester, Guthlac, Alphege, John of Beverly, Aldelm, Augustine of Canterbury, Translation of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3032
Title:: Hesychius of Jerusalem, Commentary on Leviticus
Scope & Content:: Hesychius of Jerusalem, Commentary on Leviticus, with a title page 'In hoc corpori continentur in librum leviticum Isychii praesbyteri hierosolymorum libri numero VII incipit prohemium' (f. 1v) and a prologue (ff. 2r-4v), incipit: 'Venerabili diacono Euthichiano peccator Christi servus Isicius p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3303
Title:: Pius II (Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini)
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a copy of the second recension of the Pentalogus of Enea Silvio de’ Piccolomini (future Pope Pius II), a tract divided in fives fictitious dialogues between the poet (Piccolomini), the king (Frederick IV, King of the Germans, from 1452 Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4866
Title:: Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes. The poem was composed in c. 1410-1411 and addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales (the future Henry V). This manuscript is one the early copies of the text and was possibly prepared under the supervision of Hoccleve (b. c. 1367, d. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: c 1411-c 1420
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5054
Title:: The direct manner and order of Proceeding in Causes and Suytes depending in the high Court of Chancery; Plato, Apologia Socratis; William of Auxerre, Summa aurea; and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of five parts that were produced separately. The first three parts (ff. 1-30; ff. 31-54; ff. 55-54) were written in England in the 17th century. The fourth part (ff. 79-200) was written in England in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The fifth part (ff. 202-309) was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3095
Title:: Vita Boethii; Cassiodorus Senator, Anecdoton Holderi; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae; Bovo II of Corvey, Commentary on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae (excerpt); List of Byzantine offices; Eugenius of Toledo, Libellus carminum (excerpt); Notated Greek Cherubic Hymn (Latin translation); Boethius, De sancta trinitate; Utrum Pater et Filius et Spiritus sanctus de diuinitate substantialiter praedicentur; De hebdomadibus; Contra Eutychen et ...
Scope & Content:: The first quire of the manuscript is now Harley MS 2688, ff. 17–22, which includes a diagram of the winds, hymns, sequences with neumes, a Greek and Latin glossary, 'Proverbia Salomonis', and a drawing of Philosophy visiting Boethius in prison (Ganz, 'A tenth-century drawing' (1981); Bergmann an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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