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31. 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

32. Add MS 46487-46487*

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Title:
SHERBORNE CHARTULARY
Scope & Content:
Chartulary of the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne, co. Dorset, and related papers. 2 vols.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
[1141-1999]
Extent:
2 items

33. 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

34. Add MS 57337

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Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

35. 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

36. Add MS 61901

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Title:
Folcard, Life of St John of Beverley; Beverley Cartulary
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–10v: Folcard, Life of St John. ff. 10v–60v: Accounts of miracles performed by John, including a passage on the rights and privileges purported to be given by King Æthelstan to Beverley Minster (ff. 22r–25r) and extracts concerning John from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica (ff. 53r–58v). ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

37. 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

38. Add MS 74948

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Title:
ARTHUR AGARD, AL. AGARDE, ANTIQUARY: Abstract of the Great Domesday; circa early 17th cent. Copy. Latin and Old English. Agard (1540-1615), a clerk in the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1570 and one of its two deputy chamberlains from 1603, had completed his abstracts of the Great and Lesser Domesdays by Mar. 1599. The present manuscript comprises (ff. 1-101) entries drawn from each of the thirty-one counties represented in Great Domesday, concluding with a selection of 'Clamores de Eurewicsc...
Scope & Content:
Arthur Agard, Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer: William I of England: Domesday Book: Thomas Jekyll, clerk of the papers in the King's Bench: Abstract of the Great Domesday by Arthur Agard, with additions by Thomas Jekyll: circa 1600-1625: Latin and Old English: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

39. 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.

40. Add MS 89137

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Title:
Rental of the lands of Worcester Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:
Descriptive rental of Worcester Cathedral Priory, 1240, with additional material for 1253–1285 and 1365. There is a contemporary rubric on f. 2r, reading ‘Hii fuerunt redditus prioratus Wigorniensis Anno Incarnationis Domini moccoxlo’. Includes copies of charters issued in the name of various k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1240-1365
Extent:
1 item

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