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1. Add MS 15350

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Title:
Codex Wintoniensis (The St Swithun Cartulary)
Scope & Content:
Known as 'Codex Wintoniensis', this 12th-century manuscript contains the St Swithun or Winchester Cartulary, a collection of charters pertaining to the cathedral priory of Winchester (Old Minster) written in Latin and Old English. The manuscript may have been in the hands of the Benedictine monk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1130-1150
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 23211

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Title:
Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the earliest fragments of the Old English martyrology and the earliest known West Saxon and East Saxon royal geneaologies. These fragments survive in two folios, apparently written by the same scribe, which were cut down and formerly used as pastedowns in an early...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

3. Add MS 32246

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Title:
Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy
Scope & Content:
The main text of this manuscript is a fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano, copied in the first decade of the eleventh century, probably at Abingdon; the rest of the manuscript is now in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 (formerly MS 47). Förster has reconstructed what the original colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

4. Add MS 34652, f 2

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Title:
Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
Scope & Content:
Contents: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
950-1025
Extent:

1 folio, part of a parchment codex

5. Add MS 34652, f 3

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Title:
Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1025-1050
Extent:
1 folio, part of a parchment codex

6. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 40000

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Title:
The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:
This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 46204

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Title:
Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)
Scope & Content:
One leaf and two strips of a leaf from a Worcester cartulary. Another portion of this item is Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, ff. 181–184, the original position of the complete leaf being between ff. 182 and 183, the strips coming from an earlier part of the cartulary. Thought based on its size to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

3 parchment fragments

9. Add MS 46487

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Title:
The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts
Scope & Content:
Cartulary and documents of the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne, Dorset, containing copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters in Latin and Old English, followed by account of the Passion by the four Evangelists, Gospels, collects, blessings and other ceremonies. The boundaries of lands are wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 47967

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Title:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos ('The Old English Orosius' or 'The Tollemache Orosius' )
Scope & Content:
The Tollemache Orosius (also known as the Lauderdale Orosius or Helmingham Hall 46) contains the oldest known copy of the Old English translation of Orosius's Historia adversus paganos. The compiler condensed this text in some places and augmented it in others to explain classical allusions and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
900-1699
Extent:

Parchment codex