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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2441
Title:: A Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This Middle Dutch prayer-book was copied by a single scribe for a general audience. It contains prayers for one’s partner (husband or wife) and children, but also prayers to be recited by those unable to have children, young (unmarried) persons, widows and clerics. ff. 1r-6v: A treatise on pray...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle
Date Range:: c 1575-1596
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2443
Title:: Book of Hours, fragmentary
Scope & Content:: A fragmentary Book of Hours, now lacking folios at the beginning, at the end, as well as within the manuscript, and consisting mainly of the Office of the Dead. Contents: f. 1r-v: The end of a litany, beginning ‘peccata mundi misere[re] nobis’. ff. 2r-70v: The Office of the Dead, now imperfe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2885
Title:: Breviary, Use of York
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: Lists of Sundays of the liturgical year, headed: 'Ordo officiorum dominicalium'. f. 5v: 'Benedictiones communes' to be said at matins throughout the liturgical year, beginning: 'Benedicitone perpetua benedicat nos pater eternus'. ff. 5v-6r: Benedictions for the the mati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2984
Title:: Missal, Use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-117v, 122r-281r: Missal, Use of Sarum; with musical notation on four-line red staves (f. 14v). The litanies include English saints such as Edmund, Swithun, Ethelwold (Aethelwold), Dunstan and Cuthbert (ff. 104r-104v, 268v-269v). The manuscript contains a few additions: ff. 11...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3086
Title:: Joshua and Judges, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1v-68v: Book of Joshua with gloss. ff. 69r-128r: Book of Judges with gloss.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3159
Title:: Genesis and Exodus, glossed
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-214v: The books of Genesis and Exodus, glossed. The manuscript forms part of a two- or multi-volume set together with Harley MS 3160. Decoration: 2 large historiated initials in gold and colours with foliate motifs and one with a grotesque (ff. 2v, 107v). 1 large decorated i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 3900
Title:: Missal; Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript consists of two separate parts. The first part (ff. 1r-28v) was written in Dijon around 1579. The second part was written in Paris in the 2nd quarter of the 15th century. Part 1: ff. 1r-29v: Missal, beginning: 'Sequens missa a domino Odoto perroul regis computatio...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1425-c 1579
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4032
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-75r: Full-page drawings of the arms of 85 peers of England, with a history of the succession of the first eight of them. Decoration: Full-page drawings in colours and gold throughout the manuscript.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4035
Title:: English coats of arms
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-2r: ‘A Table of All the Severall Catalogues Contained in this Booke’. ff. 3r-131r: Histories of the Dukes, Marquesses and Earls of England, with coats of arms. ff. 131r-135r: Coats of arms of the viscounts and barons of England (16 per page), entitled: ‘The Baring of the Vis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4662
Title:: Collection of Cicero’s writings
Scope & Content:: f. 1*r: a modern introduction to the volume. ff. 1r-54r: Cicero, De natura deorum (On the Nature of Gods). ff. 54r-78v: Cicero, De divination (On Divination). ff. 78v-79v: Macrobius, commentary on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis, Bk I, Chapter 3. ff. 79r-87r: Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum (Paradoxes...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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