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4281. Harley MS 2904

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2904
Title:
Psalter (the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald')
Scope & Content:
Psalter, known as the 'Ramsey Psalter' or 'Psalter of Oswald', in the Gallican version. The manuscript includes: ff. 1v-3r: Three prefatory prayers: two attributed to Pseudo-Augustine, De virtute psalmorum, incipit: 'Quod canticum psalmorum animas decorat'; Laus Psalterii, incipit: 'Canticum ps...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

4282. Harley MS 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3353
Title:
Composite miscellany relating to medicine, alchemy and mathematics
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum (ff. 2r-38v); 2. Marbod of Rennes, Liber lapidum seu de gemmis (ff. 39r-54v); 3. Pseudo-Ovidius (Thierry, abbot of St. Trond?), De mirabilibus mundi, hexameter verse (ff. 54v-57v); 4. Johannes Philosophus, Summa chiromantiae (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-Mid 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

4283. Harley MS 3399

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3399
Title:
Pseudo-Aristotle, Oeconomica, with the Commentary by Leonardo Aretino
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-11v: Pseudo-Aristotle, Economica, translated by Leonardo Bruni of Arezzo (Leonardo Aretino), with a preface dedicated to Cosimo 'Il Vecchio' de' Medici, priore of Florence, rubric (preface): 'Leonardi Aretini prefatio in librum economicorum ad Cosmam Medicem,' incipit (preface): 'Pretiosa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1440-c 1450
Extent:
Parchment codex.

4284. Harley MS 3671

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3671
Title:
Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, with continuation to 1377
Scope & Content:
Contents: 1. (ff. 1r-16v): Alphabetical table of contents to the Polychronicon, including not just names but brief descriptions of episodes and content, keyed to book and chapter numbers. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Aaron & Moses duces fuerunt populi Israel & obierunt . 2 . 14'. Explicit (f. 16v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter 14th cent to 1st quarter 15th cent
Extent:
1 parchment codex, 221 folios

4285. Harley MS 129

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 129
Title:
Richard Simonds (d. 1611), collection of notes on logic, philosophy and rhetoric, with a few poems and transcripts of orations and letters
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large collection of Latin study notes on logic, rhetoric and philsophy, with a few poems and transcripts of orations and letters written in Latin, compiled by Richard Simonds (d. 1611), grandfather of the antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Most of the sources cited in the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1590s
Extent:
1 volume

4286. Harley MS 3222

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3222
Title:
De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito; Epistola de monachorum officiis; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum; and other theological texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-16v: De Gallo super Ecclesiam posito, beginning: 'Cum multa et diversa sint avium genera quadam naturali pulcritudine'. ff. 17r-42r: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, chapters 1-68, extracts ff. 42v-44r: Untitled letter ('Epistola de monachorum officiis'), beginning:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

4287. Harley MS 3667

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3667
Title:
Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4288. Harley MS 462

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 462
Title:
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–23r: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea (selections, in several different hands). In the 17th century, the manuscript was bound as one volume with Harley MS 459–461 and Harley MS 463 (see table of contents in Harley MS 459, f. 2v). Decoration: Some sections open with a two-line initial...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

4289. Harley MS 4955

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4955
Title:
Verse compilation (‘The Newcastle MS’)
Scope & Content:
Collection of poetry and drama compiled by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676), between 1620 and 1634. In the hand of Cavendish’s secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681) (Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, 1993). Contains poems and entertainm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1620-1634
Extent:
1 volume

4290. Harley MS 5436

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5436
Title:
Origen, Sermon on St Mary Magdalen; Gulielmus Brito, Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie; Honorius of Autun, Elucidarium; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistola ad Paulum et invicem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological works written in the 15th century. It also contains fragments from other manuscripts that have been reused as flyleaves for this manuscript. Among these are two previously unidentified leaves from Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, which survives ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1451-1469
Extent:
1 volume

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