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1. Add MS 9381

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Title:
Gospel-book with added Cornish records of manumissions ('The Bodmin Gospels' or 'St Petroc Gospels')
Scope & Content:
Contents: The four Gospels. The text of the Gospels displays Irish variants with the interpolation of Mass formulae common in Breton gospel-books (Cohen and Teviotdale, 'Getty Anglo-Saxon Leaves' (1999), p. 67). ff. 2r-5v: Epistles and prologues; ff. 5v-7v Preface and chapter list to St Matt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
875-1025
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 17801

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Title:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock. ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
c 1651-1654
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

3. Add MS 22911

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Scope & Content:
VOL. II. 1. Letters to Dr. Covel from Humfrey Wanley; London, Wimpole, 30 Aug. 1701-10 Apr. 1716, ff. 1, 8, 141-146, 155, 159-165, 170, 174-178, 185, 188, 190, 196, 206, 208, 211. Johannes Schult, Suecus; Cambridge, London, Upsal, 22 Apr. 1702-1 Jan. 1703. Lat. ff. 12-19, 25, 30, 36. J[ohn] Wood...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17 Nov 1655-29 Nov 1748
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 40165 A

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Title:
Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments
Scope & Content:
These fragments of Cyprian epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX (ff. 1-5) and of an Old English Martyrology (ff. 6-7) were used as flyleaves in the binding of a 12th-century manuscript. They have been removed and bound together.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
300-899
Extent:

Parchment fragments consisting of 2 items

5. Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r

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Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r
Title:
Old English Martyrology fragment
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Anglo-Saxon Martyrology: the part for 2nd to 10th May, incipit "On þone aefteran [daeg þaes] monðes" (p. 70, 1. 10), explicit: "þaes martyres tid sancti Gor[dianes]" (p. 80,11. 13-14). (References to An Old English Martyrology, pp. 70-80). There are two other manuscripts of pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
875-899
Extent:
A parchment fragment consisting of 2 folios

6. 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

7. 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

8. Add MS 82931

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Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

9. Add MS 89169

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Title:
Cartulary of Burton Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references. ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer. ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

10. Cotton Ch XI 11

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Cotton Ch XI 11
Title:
Grant of King Æthelstan of England (r. 924–939) to the minster of Saints Mary and Peter, Exeter
Scope & Content:
King Æthelstan grants five hides (cassati) at Culmstock, Devon, to the minster of Saints Mary and Peter, Exeter; dated 670 for 924 × 939, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 386). Endorsed in various hands, ‘to Culumstoce’; ‘Regis Æðelstani donatio Qulumstoc’; ‘Carta de Columstoke’.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

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