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2. Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v
- Title:
- Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
- Scope & Content:
- This part contains 2 texts: ff. 1r-58r, Wace, Roman de Brut in Anglo-Norman verse. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Ky vot oyr e wot saver / De rey en rey e de eir en eir / ke cil furent e dunt vindrent / ke engleterre primes tindrent'. Numerous leaves are missing between ff. 48 and 49, with the loss of line...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and French, Old
- Date Range:
- 1275-1300
- Extent:
- Part of a parchment codex, 58 folios
3. Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v
- Title:
- Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
- Scope & Content:
- This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers, Arthurian Romances, (1909)), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seign...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and French, Old
- Date Range:
- 1300-1325
- Extent:
- Part of a parchment codex, 145 folios.
4. Add MS 47682
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47682
- Title:
- Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
- Scope & Content:
- A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and English
- Date Range:
- c 1327-1335
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, 42 folios
5. Add MS 49999
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 49999
- Title:
- Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1240
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex
6. Add MS 50000
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 50000
- Title:
- Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
- Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1265-1270
- Extent:
-
Parchment codex.
7. Arundel MS 83
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 83
- Title:
- Psalter and Hours (the 'Howard Psalter') and Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: The manuscript is composed of at least two formerly independent volumes: ff. 1r-116v: A Psalter and Hours, known as the 'Howard Psalter' (Arundel MS 83 I). ff. 177r-135v: A calendar and the Speculum theologiae, a collection of diagrams attributed to John of Metz, that originally fo...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1308-c 1340
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex, 135 folios.
8. Cotton MS Caligula D V
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula D V
- Title:
- Original documents relating to England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England
- Scope & Content:
- Bound fragments from a volume which originally consisted of 219 leaves, containing documents relating to the transactions between England and France in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI of England. The volume was badly damaged in the Cotton Library fire of 1731 and some of the leaves were lost ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 15th century-1st half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
9. Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A VI
- Title:
- Donatus, Ars maior; Interrogationes; a poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon ; De formis qualiter causarum; Croniques de London, covering the years 1259–1343
- Scope & Content:
- This codex contains: f. 1r: early modern table of contents; ff. 2r-31r: Donatus, Ars maior; ff. 31v-47r: Interrogationes; ff. 47r–48r: poem on Gregory the Great attributed to John the Deacon; ff. 48r–53r: De formis qualiter causarum; f. 53v: blank; ff. 54r–106v: Croniques de London, co...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- mid-10th century-mid-14th century
- Extent:
-
1 parchment codex
10. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI
- Title:
- Ancrene Riwle; songs and prayers; a leaf from a Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains 2 separate items, bound together for Sir Robert Cotton (d. 1631): (i) f. 1r-1v: A leaf from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Annunciation; (ii) ff. 2r-203v: Ancrene Riwle; poems and prayers in Middle English, Anglo-Norman French and Latin.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1200-1420
- Extent:
-
A parchment codex consisting of 2 items.