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4241. Harley MS 2804

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2804
Title:
Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Psalms-Acts 16:17, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Second volume of a two-volume monumental Bible (the first volume is Harley MS 2803, Genesis to Job), containing the Latin Vulgate from Psalms to Acts 16:17, imperfect. Decoration: 2 large miniatures in colours and gold of Jerome writing and of David as a harpist at the preface to Psalms (ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex, 274 folios.

4242. Harley MS 323

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 323
Title:
Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis; Pope Clement V, Constitutiones Clementinae; Raymund de Peñafort, Decretals of Gregory IX (fragment); Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie; laws from the reign of Henry III; Registrum Brevium (fragment); Pope Innocent III, De miseria humanae conditionis; Bernardus Parmensis, Casus longi quinque libros decretalium
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of eight parts that were written separately at different moments in time and joined together at a later stage, before or after reaching the library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650). Contents: Part 1: ff. 1r-12v: Richardus de Pofis, Summa dictaminis,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

4243. Harley MS 866

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 866
Title:
Collection of texts on rhetoric, mathematics and other sciences, including Alain de Lille, De planctu naturae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-7v: A treatise on rhetoric, imperfect; beginning, 'Rhetorica docet ornate loqui...' and ending with a title 'De divisione monacordi'. ff. 8r-17r: Ranulf Higden, Ars componendi sermones, with a title, 'De arte predicandi sed Ranulphum castrensis'. ff. 17r-33r: Alain de Lille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-c 1410
Extent:

1 volume

4244. Harley MS 2682

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2682
Title:
Cicero, Epistolae ad Familiares, Laelius de amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute, various speeches (including Philippicae, Orationes in Catilinam, Pro Marcello), Paradoxa Stoicorum, De Officiis; Pseudo-Quintus Tullius Cicero, De petitione consulatus; Pseudo-Cicero, Invectiva in Sallusti; Fulgentius, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola magni Alexandri ad Aristotelem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, containing mainly works of Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), has long been an important source for scholarship and textual criticism on Cicero’s works. It was first collated in the late-16th century by the Flemish jurist and humanist François Modius (b. 1556, d. 1597)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

4245. Harley MS 3097

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3097
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Botulphi; Vitae Tancredi, Torhtredi and Tovae; De Translatione Sanctorum Qui in Thornensi Monasterio Requiescunt; Felix of Crowland, Vita Sancti Guthlaci; St Ambrose of Milan, Sermo de Observantia Episcoporum; Ambrose, De Misteriis; Ambrose, De Sacramentis; De Helia et Jejunio; Prologue to the Vita Sancti Nicholai Myrrensis; Miracles of St Nicholas
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 419/420), followed by saints’ lives and sermons. It includes various materials related to the Benedictine abbey of Thorney: lives of St Botolph, abbot of Thorney Abbey and three saints at Thorney who were mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century - 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4246. Harley MS 3009

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3009
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa ante Iudicium; Alcuin of York, Interpretationes Nominum Hebraicorum Progenitorum Iesu Christ
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the last two of the four books of the Dialogues (Dialogi) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4247. Harley MS 3837

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3837
Title:
Notes and extracts relating to Latin and Greek authors written by Johann Michael Dilherr
Scope & Content:
Notes and extracts relating to Latin and Greek authors written by Johann Michael Dilherr. The manuscript contains: ff 1r-101r: Notes and extracts relating to Latin authors. ff 102r-106r: Theodore Prodromus. Extracts from the 1625 edition by Gaulmin. ff 106r-113r: Eustathius Macrembolites, Hys...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century-3rd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

4248. Harley MS 2255

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2255
Title:
A collection of poems by John Lydgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of poetry by or attributed to John Lydgate (c. 1370-1449/50?), containing 45 Middle English poems, mostly religious. McCracken considered as Lydgate's all but two of the poems (Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas and A Satirical Description of his Lady), whose aut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1460-c 1470
Extent:

1 volume

4249. Harley MS 2912

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2912
Title:
Offices from a pontifical and a rituale
Scope & Content:
Contents: A selection of offices from a pontifical and a rituale for the Use of Rome. ff. 1r-16r: Form of the mass celebrated by a bishop, incipit: 'Pontifex missam celebraturus'; includes additional prayers added in the margins by a 16th-century hand: 'Ad caligas' (f. 9v), 'Ad crucem' (f. 10v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4250. Harley MS 2938

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2938
Title:
Order for the consecration of a bishop
Scope & Content:
An order for the consecration of a bishop, produced as an independent ceremonial. Decoration: Miniature of the consecration of a bishop (f. 1v). Large initials in gold on a blue panel. Numerous smaller initials in gold on a blue or red panel. Crosses in gold on a blue or red panel to indicate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1539-c 1542
Extent:

1 volume

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