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21. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

22. Add MS 40000

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Title:
The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:
This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

23. Add MS 40165 A-B

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Title:
Commentaries and theological treatises
Scope & Content:
Fragments of earlier manuscripts have been used as flyleaves in a 12th-century theological miscellany
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
800-1199
Extent:
A parchment codex consisting of 2 items

24. Add MS 46204

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Title:
Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)
Scope & Content:
One leaf and two strips of a leaf from a Worcester cartulary. Another portion of this item is Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, ff. 181–184, the original position of the complete leaf being between ff. 182 and 183, the strips coming from an earlier part of the cartulary. Thought based on its size to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

3 parchment fragments

25. Add MS 46487-46487*

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Title:
SHERBORNE CHARTULARY
Scope & Content:
Chartulary of the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne, co. Dorset, and related papers. 2 vols.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
[1141-1999]
Extent:
2 items

26. Add MS 47967

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Title:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos ('The Old English Orosius' or 'The Tollemache Orosius' )
Scope & Content:
The Tollemache Orosius (also known as the Lauderdale Orosius or Helmingham Hall 46) contains the oldest known copy of the Old English translation of Orosius's Historia adversus paganos. The compiler condensed this text in some places and augmented it in others to explain classical allusions and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
900-1699
Extent:

Parchment codex

27. Add MS 57337

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Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Add MS 61735

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Title:
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1007-1025
Extent:
A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

29. Add MS 61901

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Title:
Folcard, Life of St John of Beverley; Beverley Cartulary
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–10v: Folcard, Life of St John. ff. 10v–60v: Accounts of miracles performed by John, including a passage on the rights and privileges purported to be given by King Æthelstan to Beverley Minster (ff. 22r–25r) and extracts concerning John from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica (ff. 53r–58v). ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

30. Add MS 71687

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Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose), with added glosses in Old English
Scope & Content:
This bifolium once belonged to one of the earliest known surviving copies of the prose version of the De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

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