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21. Add MS 46701

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Title:
Cartulary of Stixwould Priory
Scope & Content:
The Cartulary of the Cistercian nunnery of Stixwould, Lincolnshire, containing transcripts of royal, episcopal, noble and private charters, arranged by location and usually with the witnesses omitted. The latest dated charter in the original hand is an agreement with Croyland Abbey in 1263 (f. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:
1 volume

22. Add MS 47170

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Edward I, with continuations to Richard II (the 'Egmont Roll')
Scope & Content:
Contents: Genealogical roll chronicles with commentary in Anglo-Norman French on the face and in Latin on the dorse. Face of the roll: Membranes 1-9: A genealogical diagram of the kings of England from Aethelwulf I (r. 839-856) to Edward I (r. 1272-1307); the section on Aethelwulf on the fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter to 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 roll

23. Add MS 47682

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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

24. Add MS 49999

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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

25. Add MS 50000

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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.

26. Add MS 59839

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Title:
THEOLOGICAL MISCELLANY: works in Latin by St Bonaventure, St Isidore of Seville, St Anselm of Canterbury, Hugh of St Victor, Bartholomeus Florarius and St Augustine, etc., and two works in Anglo-Norman; late 13th or early 14th cent. Written in England by several scribes. According to an ownership note on f. 217 the MS. once belonged to a 'vicarius de Gauylton'. Purchased by Phillipps of Thorpe in 1836 (Thorpe's catalogue, item 1396). Phillipps MS 9328. Purchased at Sotheby's (Phillipps sale)...
Scope & Content:
Theology LATIN: Theological miscellany: late 13th-early 14th cent: Lat. includes: ff. 1-2v, 219-221v Law CANON: Legal fragments: late 13th-early 14th cent: Lat.ff. 6-13v Saint Bonaventura,; Cardinal-bishop of Albano: Lignum vitae by St Bonaventura: late 13th-early 14th cent: Lat.ff. 14-51v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Add MS 88905

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Title:
Psalter of Kirkstead Abbey, including a topographical map of northern Lincolnshire
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar; ff. 2r–v: 'Versus ad virginem Mariam, Alma serena pia preclara beata Maria' (Walther, Initia Carminum, no. 799); ff. 3r–v: An account of the baronies of Bolingbroke and Horncastle & Scrivelsby (Lincolnshire), and the grants of pasturage in Wildmore...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

29. Add MS 89250

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Title:
The Mostyn Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Additions made in the late fifteenth century. f. 1r: Instruction for making the sign of the cross with a prayer, '[rubric:] Mane cum surrexeris signum cruces orationi imprimendo dices [prayer:] [H]unc labia mea aperies [etc.]'. ff. 1r-1v: Prayers to God the Father, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1275 - c 1325
Extent:
Parchment codex

30. Arundel MS 83

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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.

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