Volume 1

A catalogue of the Harleian collection of manuscripts, purchased by authority of Parliament, for the use of the publick; and preserved in the British museum / Published by order of the Trustees. [By H. Wanley, C. Morton, and others. With preface by C.M].

British Museum. Department of Manuscripts.

Date:: 1759[-1763]

Credit: A catalogue of the Harleian collection of manuscripts, purchased by authority of Parliament, for the use of the publick; and preserved in the British museum / Published by order of the Trustees. [By H. Wanley, C. Morton, and others. With preface by C.M]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$f Paintings, wherein the Figures are reprefented of a larger Size than ufual; and to w ic is added a Calendar, ornamented with feveral curious Miniaturesj wherein the eve’® Labours of the Farm and Vineyard throughout the Year are curioully delineated [293 J- A fine Tranfcript of the Ordo Romanus, written in the nth Century [2906]. The Office of the Holy Virgin, With a Calendar finely illuminated, and decorated with Pic¬ tures, particularly thole of Saints Michael, John Baft. Chrijiopber, Sehafltan, Jerome, Martin of Tours, Agnes, Barbara, and Margaret [2948]• Tw0 breviaries painted m a moft exquifite Manner j to each of which is prefixed a Calendar finely decorate wit Miniatures, of Saints, Country Sports, and Employments, &c. [2950, 5049]. As alfo many others. See [2787, 2989, 3000, 2974, 2835, 2975, 2983, 92 > 5780, 2971, 2969, 6563, £?<••] VI. Ancient EVANGELISTRIA & LECTION ARIES, amongft which are an v us.™. Evangelijlerium, written in Greek Capitals in the 9th Century [5787].An Bvangetijte- rium5 in Greek Capitals, Written in the Year 995* by Conftantine, Prefbyter. The r Page thereof, and the References to the Chapters, are in Letters of Gold [559®J* Another 1^vangelifterium, adorned with Pictures of the four Evangelifts finely painte * and the Rubrick Written in Letters of Gold. At the End is a Certificate figned oh th® Tenth of March 1699, by Laurence Alexander Zacagnius* principal Libraiian of the , Vatican, teftifying that this MS. was then upwards of 700 Years old [57^5 .Three EiVangeliJleria, written in the 11th Century; [2994, 2970, 5^5°]» one w^ereo^ belonged to the Canons of St. Simon at Treves, and hath inferted on the Back of the 2 6th Page thereof the Oaths ufually taken by the Canons, Dean and Provoft of that Church j and another of them is remarkable for being written on Parchment* from whence the Words of fome other Book have been erafed. A Leclionarium of the 10th Century, with Hymns, Colle&s, &c. in which the Refponfes are pricked to mufical Notes [2961]. A very fair Exemplar of the Le£lio?iarium Moijfacenje, with the Ref¬ ponfes fet to Mufic, and finely written in the 1 ith Century [2914]. Another Ledli- onarium of the fame Age, enriched with the Pi&ures of SS. Peter, Paul, James, and Johns as alfo with the Figure of JeJe lying in his Tomb, with thefeven Spirits iffuing from his Body [5787]. As alfo an elegant illuminated Tranfcript of IVickliff's Gofpelis and Epijlolis of all pe Feftis in pe Zeer by Ordre as pei ben red rn the Mejje Book \after pe Ufe of Salisbery [1710]. Penologies, VII. Store of MenoloGies, Martyrologies, and Lives of Saints, which, Martyrologies, th0Ugh they arc to be read with great Caution ; yet when diverted of their fabulous and miraculous Parts, furnifh genuine Matter of good Note, and not readily to be met with elfewherei The Afliftancc which the Collections of this Sort, made by Bollandus, Pape«* broch, Tinmouth, Surius, Mabillon, and others, have afforded, is frequently acknowl¬ edged by the graveft and be ft writers on Church Affairs. Amongft thefe are a Greek Menology, written in the nth Century [5557], and another in the 12th [5581]. A moft noble PaJJionale in three very pompous Folio Volumes, written in the 13th Century, and once belonging to the Church of St. Mary, and St. Nicholas, of Arinfteyn; con¬ taining, exclufive of the Life ©f Lewis, Count of Arinfteyn, Founder of that Abbey, the Lives and Actions of no lefs than three hundred and thirteen Saints [2800]. Two Exemplars of the celebrated Martyrology of Ufuardus the Monk *, compiled by the exprefs Command of the Emperor Charlemagne \ One of them is a very pompous Volume, with a Calendar prefixed, written in the 13th Century [3047]; the other, though of much meaner Appearance, yet is of more venerable Antiquity, being written in the 9th Century [3062]: This laft mentioned Copy differs in feveral RefpeCts from the former, and is probably the oldeft Tranfcript of Ufuardus now ex¬ tant. In it the Martyrology begins on the VUIth of the Calends of January, with the Feftival of the Holy Virgins of Antioch; whereas the other [3047] fets out with the Feftival of St. Almachius on the Calends of January. It likewife contains a Prologue * He is Sometimes called Ufuardus. Tritbemius and other German Writers call him Ifuardus. » The Emperor Charlemagne, being difpleafed that Jerome and Bede had, in compiling their Martyrologies ftudied too much Brevity, and left feveral Days in the Calendar unnoticed, ordered Ufuardus to fupply thofe Defeats j and he accordingly noting down the Feftivals of Saints for every Day in the Calendar, compiled an entire new Martyrology, which he dedicated to that Emperor. In this Work, he in great Meafure fol¬ lowed Florus i but was at the fame Time extremely careful in correding his Miftakcs, and fupplying his Omiflions; es well as thofe of Jerome, Bede, and other Martyrologifts. 6 Sigebertus Gemblacenfis de Viris illuflribus. Cap. 85. Ufuardus in his Preface. Tritbemius in his Catalogue. prefixed$