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1. 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

2. Royal MS 2 A XX

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Royal MS 2 A XX
Title:
Royal Prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

3. Royal MS 5 F III

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Royal MS 5 F III
Title:
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c. 900
Extent:
1 parchment codex

4. Royal MS 2 B V

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Royal MS 2 B V
Title:
The Royal Psalter
Scope & Content:
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

5. 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

6. Royal MS 6 B VII

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Royal MS 6 B VII
Title:
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r). Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

7. 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

8. Royal MS 5 E XI

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Royal MS 5 E XI
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Royal MS 1 B VII

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Royal MS 1 B VII
Title:
Gospel-book ('The Royal Athelstan Gospels')
Scope & Content:
The four Gospels, in Jerome's translation. Detailed contents: (1) Epistle of Jerome to Damasus, incipit: 'Nouum opus facere', f. 1r; (2) Prologue to Jerome's commentary on Matthew's Gospel, incipit: 'Plures fuisse', f. 2v; (3) Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus, incipit: 'Eusebius Carpiano...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
700-749
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Royal MS 15 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
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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