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4231. Harley MS 4987

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4987
Title:
Visio Tnugdali; Pseudo-Bernard, Meditationes; Regula Beati Augustini; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Soliloquium de arra animae; Pseudo-Basil, Admonitiones; Anselm of Canterbury, Meditatio 3 and 1; Robert Grosseteste, Templum domini;Pope Innocent III, Liber de contemptu mundi; Libellus de septem artibus philosophiae coelestis; Ambrose, De Virginitate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological texts that were copied by a single hand. Its contents strongly resemble those of Oxford, Magdalen College, MS 109 [CIX], as described by Henry Octavius Coxe, Catalogus codicum mss. qui in collegiis aulisque Oxoniensibus (Oxford: Oxford Univers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4232. Harley MS 2674

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2674
Title:
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Priscian (fl. 500)'s Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar), including Tironian shorthand notes and numerous marginal and interlinear glosses written by several hands spanning from the late 9th century to the early 12th century. One of these g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4233. Harley MS 3241

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3241
Title:
Peter Lombard, Sententiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Sententiae (Sentences) of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160), a systematic compilation of theological texts, that was extremely popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume also contains the diagram of a tree of consanguinity, illustrating the relationships be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4234. Harley MS 209

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 209
Title:
Richard of Saint Victor, De statu interioris hominis post lapsum; Raymond de Penaforte, Summa de casibus pœnitentialis; Peter of Oxford, Summula Confessionis and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of theological and ecclesiastical texts, probably created for a monk of Abingdon Abbey. Contents: f. 1*v: Partial accounts of Abingdon Abbey, notes on sugar, and medical notes on bloodletting, 14th century. ff. 1r-30v: Collection of short theological texts and copies of ecclesias...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4235. Harley MS 5235

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5235
Title:
Richard Rolle, Emendacio vitae; Oleum effusum; Incendium amoris (chapter 15); commentary on the Canticles; William de Montibus, Summa de constitutionibus et ordinationibus; Speculum Christiani; Jean Beleth, Summa de Ecclesiasticis Officiis; Jerome, Epistola Ad Nepotianum 52.5; Lotario dei Segni [Innocent III], De Miseria Condicionis Humane; Pseudo-Bernard of Clairvaux, Altercatio quatuor sororum; Pseudo-Bernard, Institutio sancti Bernardi abbatis Clarevallis quomodo cantare et psallere debeam...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of five parts that were produced separately. The first part (ff. 1r-16v) contains works by the Yorkshire hermit and mystic Richard Rolle (b. 1305x10, d. 1349), and dates to the late 14th century or early 15th century. The second part (ff. 17r-41v) contains Wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4236. Harley MS 3884

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3884
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with a continuation to 1454
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (f. 1r): Mnemonic verse on the kings of England, on a scrap of parchment pasted on, following rebinding. 'Will con Wil Rufus hen stephanus hen que secundus / Ri Ion henricus Edward tres Ri que secundus / post hos regnarunt quartus quintus & henri'. 2. (ff. 1r-229r): Polychro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1460
Extent:

1 parchment codex, 244 folios

4237. Harley MS 682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 682
Title:
Charles of Orléans, Collected poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of English poems by Charles, Duke of Orléans, composed during his captivity in England (1415-1440). The manuscript was probably produced under the Duke's supervision at the end of this period, as it includes Ballades 111 and 113, which were rewritten by the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1439-1440
Extent:

1 volume

4238. Harley MS 1758

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1758
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, including the Tale of Gamelyn. Imperfect, with the loss of many folios throughout the manuscript. Occasional marginal notes in English and Latin are written by the scribe of the nearby text, and some (in red) by the rubricator. A few additional notes in ot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

4239. Harley MS 2648

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2648
Title:
D. Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal), Saturae
Scope & Content:
D. Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal), Saturae, incipit: 'Semper ego audior tantum.' Decoration: Full white vine ('bianchi girari') border in colours and gold with a large initial in gold (f. 1r). 14 gold initials (ff. 4r, 7v, 14r, 17r, 20v, 34r, 39r, 44v, 47v, 54v, 58v, 61v, 73r, 74). The border o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1410
Extent:
Parchment codex

4240. Harley MS 2672

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2672
Title:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita
Scope & Content:
Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita, books 1-8, incipit: '[F]acturus ne sim operae pretium si a primordio'. Decoration: Plain initials in dark brown ink (f. 51r), outlined initials (ff. 108r, 151r), or spaces left for initials at the beginning of books (ff. 1r, 26v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

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