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251. 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

252. Royal MS 7 C XII

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Royal MS 7 C XII
Title:
Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:
This volume includes three parts: ff. 2-3 are fragments of canon tables from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, in Latin; ff. 4-218 contain an early copy (possibly written in the 990s) of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, in Old English; ff. 219-231 contain twelfth-cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 700 to 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

253. Royal MS 7 D XXIV

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Royal MS 7 D XXIV
Title:
Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: An added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, bound upside down. ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi, beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam'. Imperfect, ending 'in hoc mundo carnalis conuersatio'. Copied in a 12th-cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
10th century-17th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

254. Royal MS 12 C XXIII

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Royal MS 12 C XXIII
Title:
Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon futuri saeculi, with Latin glosses and an Old English gloss; riddles by various authors, including Aldhelm, Symphosius, Eusebius, and Tatwine, with Latin and Old English glosses; Pseudo-Smaragdus, Opus monitorium and monitory poems; Versus cuiusdam Scotti de alphabeto
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of texts, especially riddles, all copied and decorated in Southern England (possibly at Christ Church, Canterbury) in the late 10th or early 11th century. It includes: f. 1r: blank apart from some library numbers and markings; ff. 1v-79v: Julian of Toledo'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

255. Royal MS 12 D XVII

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Royal MS 12 D XVII
Title:
Bald's Leechbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts pertaining to medical remedies, diagnoses, charms, and a prognostic text about the Dog Days (ff. 54v-55v). The text is divided by tables of contents into three books. According to a Latin colophon, the first two books were compiled for a certain Bald by Cild (f. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

256. Royal MS 12 E XX

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Royal MS 12 E XX
Title:
A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio; Galen, De arte curativa ad Glauconem; Pseudo-Galen, Ad Glauconem liber tertius; Liber Aureliani; Liber Esculapii; De podagra; Pseudo-Oribasius, commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorims;Medicina Plinii; Gargilius Martialis, Medicina ex oleribus et pomis; Liber dietarum diversorum medicorum; Excerpt from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; an anonymous Antidotary; and medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-32r: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio and based on an early translation of Hippocrates's work dating to the 6th century, beginning: 'Incipit expositio Aptalionis in .vii. libros Aforismorum Ypocratis. Vita brevis ars autem prolixa, tempus vero velox'....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

257. Royal MS 13 A XV

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Royal MS 13 A XV
Title:
Felix's Vita S Guthlaci
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Felix's life of St Guthlac (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 3723) without its prologue. Latin and Old English glosses and corrections were added later, in the 11th century. Decoration: Large initials throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

258. Royal MS 15 A XVI

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Royal MS 15 A XVI
Title:
Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
9th century-10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

259. Royal MS 15 B XXII

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Royal MS 15 B XXII
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v–3r: Greek numbers and alphabets. ff. 5r–70v: Ælfric, Grammar, ‘Incipit praefatio huius liber. Ego Ælfricus ut minus sapiens has excerptiones … leoðcræfte’ (ends imperfectly). Old English glosses are written interlinear above Latin phrases. f. 71r: Remainder of the text copied...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

260. Royal MS 15 C VII

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Royal MS 15 C VII
Title:
Dossier of Texts Pertaining to the Cult of St Swithun, including Lantfred's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni and Wulfstan Cantor's Narratio Metrica de Sancto Swithuno
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a dossier of liturgical material pertaining to St Swithun, with Latin and Old English glosses. This includes the earliest copies of Lantfred of Fleury's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni, an acrostic hymn in honour of St Swithun, Wulfstan Cantor's letters to Bishop ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
990-1200
Extent:
1 parchment codex

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