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Contenu
- (f. 1r) Vers latins
| Incipit: | Si bibit expedit ust sedem hauriat… |
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- (f. 1r-v) Vers sur la géomancie
- (f. 1v) Poème latin
| Incipit: | Balnea cornici qui prodest vel meretrici… |
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- (f. 1v) Poème latin sur la Croix
- (f. 2r-9v) Tractatus metricus de Susanna per fratrem Alanum monachum de Melsa de Beverlaco (Alan of Beverley)
- (f. 10r) De tribus domibus hominis, poème latin en vers élégiaques
- (f. ??) De tribus ordinibus salvandorum, poème latin en vers élégiaques
- (f. ??-12r) De quatuor evangelistis et eorum formis, poème latin en vers élégiaques
- (f. 12r-v) Solomon and Marcolf
- (f. 12v-18v) Quatre poème goliardiques en latin
- (f. 19r-21r) Life of St Alexius
- (f. 21r-24v) Legend of the Seven Sleepers
- (f. 24v-27r) Life of St Christina
- (f. 27r-29v) Life of St Christopher
ff. 29v-34r: Life of St Theodora.
ff. 34r-34v: Legend of Longinus.
ff. 34v-35v: Life of St Peter (partly in rhyme).
ff. 35v-41r: Legend of Veronica (cure of Tiberius).
ff. 41r-41v: Legend of St Luke.
ff. 41v-42r: Personal description of Christ.
ff. 42r-43r: Legend of Pilate.
ff. 43r-45r: Legend of Judas.
ff. 45r-49v: Oil of Mercy, and Tree of the Cross.
ff. 49v-58r: An abbreviated version of St Patrick’s Purgatory.
ff. 58r-60r: Vision of St Paul.
ff. 60r-62v: Life and Death of Antichrist.
ff. 62r-62v: Fifteen Signs of the Day of Judgment.
ff. 62v-71r: Joseph and Hasseneth (daughter of Potiphar).
ff. 71r-89r: Miracles of the Virgin.
ff. 89v-122r, 131r-142r, 172r-187v: Religious tales and fables, including a discourse of William, a physician of Gloucester, to one of his pupils, about the study of figures in the nude (ff. 186r-186v).
ff. 123v-130v, 148r: Goliardic poems and other poems, beginning with: 'Disputatio inter corpus et animam alicuius reprobate et dampnati'; attributed to Walter Map; and including poems entitled: 'quidam alius loquitur de inevitabilitate mortis'; 'Signo quibus egrus noscitur esse moriturus'; 'Versus de cleric et moniali'; and 'De Privilegiis diei Veneris'.
f. 142v: Prayer to St Cedd.
ff. 143r-145r: Mirabilia Angliae (here entitled: 'De mirabilibus liber Brittanie')
ff. 145r-147v: A physiognomic treatise, entitled: 'De arte cognoscendi qualitates hominum'.
f. 148r: A poem, entitled: 'Versus phisicales'.
ff. 148r-148v: A poem, entitled: 'De precio et dominio nummi'.
ff. 148v-150v: A poem, entitled: 'Passio iusticiariorum Anglie'.
ff. 151r-153r: Missa gulonis (Mass of the Drunkards)
f. 153r: De herba Basilisca seu Gentiana
f. 153r: Parabola
ff. 153r-154r: Septem claves sapientie
ff. 154v-156v: Bernard of Cluny, De contemptu mundi
ff. 157r-162r: Treatise on confession, beginning: 'Quoniam certa confessions animarum pericula sunt'.
ff. 162v-171r: Prayers to St Peter, the Apostles, martyrs (identified as Sts Stephen, Lauwrence, Vincent, Thomas Becket, Edmund, George, Eustace, confessors (identified as Sts Augustine, Gregory, Nicholas, Marin, Dunstan, Edmund, Ambrose, Edward, Benedict, Giles, Leonard, Botolph; with additions, including Alban and Oswald), virgins (identified as Sts Magdalene, Mary of Egypt, Osyth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Lucy, Margaret, Juliana, Christina, Apollonia; with additions including: Werburgh and Æthelthryth (Etheldreda), Christ, angels and archangels, and the Virgin Mary.
f. 171v: A tract with the heading: 'philosophus', including material from Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis
The manuscript contains a later addition.
f. 31v: Six prayers in Middle English verse invoking the Holy Name of Christ, beginning: 'O ihesu for þi holy nameand þi bittir passion save me fro synne and shame'; ending with an indulgence: 'As ofte as þou saist v. pater noster and v. ave and þis praier þou shalt have goddis blessyng and iij Ml ccccc and xxti days of pardoun . if þou be owt of dedely synn[e]s'; written in the 1st half of the 15th century.
Description matérielle
| Copiste: | Inconnu |
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| Date: | XIe siècle |
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| Décoration: | Grandes initiales rouges; rubriques à l'encre rouge |
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Possesseurs
- Robert Harley (1661-1724) puis son fils Edward (1689-1741)
- Acheté par l'État britannique en 1753 avec le reste de la collection Harley
Bibliographie
- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts, in the British Museum, London, George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1808-1812, 4 t. (ici t. 2, p. 709, no 2851) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
- Catalogue en ligne de la bibliothèque
Rédaction: Laurent Brun
Dernière mise à jour: 29 avril 2023
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