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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v
Title:: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Scope & Content:: This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 214 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:: Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v
Title:: Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents written by different hands including an inscription referring to the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preceded by a medieval pressmark. A seal with a ship at the bottom of the folio. ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels) with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 1-36
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino; two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale with interlinear Latin glosses and a few interlinear Old English glosses (ff. 5r, 25r, 28r). ff. 32v-34v Sedulius, the hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino. ff. 34v-35r: An acrostic poem in praise of Sedulius (attributed to Liberatus), beginning: 'Sedul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

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