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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Language English, Middle Subject Theology

1. Add MS 62122

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Add MS 62122
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Claudius A XII, ff 84–199

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Cotton MS Claudius A XII, ff 84–199
Title:
Hosteller’s register of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds; William de Montibus, Poeniteas Cito
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 84v-195v: Hosteller’s register of the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. ff. 196r-197v: William de Montibus (d. 1213), Poeniteas Cito (I Urge You to Repent), in a late 12th-century hand, with marginal gloss, beginning: '[P]eniteas cito peccator cum sit miserator'. f. 197v: A colophon: '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1450
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A XII

3. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 3–12

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 3–12
Title:
Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury; petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury; a letter of Pope John XXII; sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension (macaronic), and All Saints
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-4v: Letters of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the archbishop of Canterbury. ff. 4v-6r: Petitions of the clergy of the province of Canterbury. f. 6r: A letter of Pope John XXII (r. 1316–1334). ff. 6v-12v: Sermons on the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ascension, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

4. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 103–106

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 103–106
Title:
Sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12 (partially macaronic)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 103r-106v: Anonymous, sermons on the Assumption of Mary and Luke 12.12; including a macaronic section on ff. 105v-106r concerning the Raising of Lazarus. Decoration: No decoration
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

5. Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII

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Cotton MS Tiberius B XIII
Title:
Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae; Gerald of Wales, De Rebus a Se Gestis; Roger of Ford, Speculum Ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains two parts. The first part (ff. 1-185), copied in the first quarter of the 13th century, contains the only surviving copy of the Speculum Ecclesiae (Mirror of the Church) that Gerald of Wales (b. c. 1146, d. c. 1223), author and ecclesiastic, is thought to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 2

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Harley MS 2
Title:
Collection of historical and theological texts, including Elias of Evesham, ‘Quadrilogus’ of materials relating to Thomas Becket; Eustace of Faversham, Vita sancti Edmundi Cantuariensis;and William of Malmesbury, De Gesta Pontificum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains ten parts written in England during the 2nd half of the 12th century or the 1st half of the 13th century. Most likely they were once part of different manuscripts (as suggested by a quire mark (‘III’) on f. 257v). A (? late) 13th-century table of contents that lists all...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Royal MS 7 C IV

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Royal MS 7 C IV
Title:
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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