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1. Egerton MS 1894

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1894
Title:
Egerton Genesis Picture Book
Scope & Content:
Cycle of 149 illustrations of Genesis, from Creation to the latter part of the history of Joseph; full-page drawings arranged in one to four compartments on each page, executed in ink, and either with colour washes or unfinished, with (ff. 1r-9v) short captions in Ango-Norman French, based on Pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 20 folios

2. Cotton MS Appendix LVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LVI
Title:
St Augustine of Hippo, De Doctrina Christiana (imperfect); Pseudo-Augustine of Hippo, Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Celestianos; Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria, De Processione Spiritus Sancti; Pope Paschal II, Epistolae; A record of the primacy of Canterbury, 1072; Acts of the Council of Rome, 1112; 'Aethicus Ister', Cosmographia; Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Leaf of a Psalter; Medieval endleaf; Book of Genesis,...
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains seven parts (ff. 1-4; ff. 5-60; ff. 61-90; ff. 91-111; f. 112; f. 113; ff. 114-122) that were most likely produced at different locations in England and in different periods of time. These parts were joined together in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. 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

4. Cotton MS Caligula A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula A VII
Title:
Heliand and a charm
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of only two non-fragmentary surviving manuscripts of the poem Heliand, an account of the life of Jesus in Old Saxon epic verse. It ends imperfectly, in the middle of the account of the journey to Emmaus. The volume includes: f. 1: part of a memorandum dated 1371-72 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Old, Latin, and Saxon, Old
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century - the 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Egerton MS 2781

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2781
Title:
Book of Hours, use of Sarum (The 'Neville of Hornby Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, consisting of: ff. 2r-7v: A calendar, with numerous English saints; ff. 9r-20v: 23 Salutations of the Virgin in Latin, each beginning 'Ave et gaude'; ff. 21r-25r: Prayers to the Virgin in Latin, some with rubrics in Anglo-Norman; ff. 25v-26r: Prayer f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. 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.