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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Language English, Old Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 9381
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 71687
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

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