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Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 2
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a decorated Gallican Psalter and Canticles (ff. 168v-180v), made in England in the mid-11th century. The Psalter was glossed in Old English in the second half of the 11th century. This Psalter might be related to fragments/binding strips of a glossed Psalter in Cambrid...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 31
Title:
Scope & Content:: EPISTLES of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Anselm, viz.: — 1. "Epistola Anselmi arehiepiscopi ad papam"; Anselm's letter to Pope Paschal II., asking for a clearer declaration of his opinion on Investitures (Migne, Patrologia, vol. clix. col. 110, Ep. iii. 73). Begins (after the salutation), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 57
Title:: Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1154
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 104
Title:: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 798
Title:
Scope & Content:: PERAMBULATIONS of Royal Forests in cos. Huntingdon and Gloucester and several other counties, made tempp. Hen. III.- Edw. I. Lat. and Fr. At the end are copies of :-(a) Charter of Edward the Confessor concerning the endowment of Westminster Abbey, 5 Kal. Jan. 1066, [28 Dec. 1065]. Lat. f. 39. Pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 944
Title:: Liber vitae ('The New Minster Liber Vitae')
Scope & Content:: The core of this volume is a Liber vitae consisting of lists of names of brethren and benefactors of the New Minster, Winchester, recorded for commendation to God during daily mass, combined originally with a Gospel Lectionary, and supplemented with several historical texts. Contents: ff. 1r-5...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1031-1771
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 945
Title:
Scope & Content:: WILL of Alfred the Great, in Anglo-Saxon, copied from No. 944 above (f. 29 b), when in T. Astle's possession; with introduction and notes, and translations into English and Latin, by O[wen] M[anning],1776 (see f.18). Published at Oxford,1788. Followed (f. 19) by the will of Alfred the Alderman (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Old
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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