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1. Royal MS 1 A XIV

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Royal MS 1 A XIV
Title:
Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the four Gospels in English, in the Anglo-Saxon or Wessex version, with flyleaves from a Latin missal of the 13th century. The Gospels are arranged as follows: Mark (ff. 3r-32r); Matthew (ff. 33r-82r); Luke (ff. 83r-133v); John (ff. 135r-174v) and were probably copied se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1150-1200
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Royal MS 2 A XX

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Royal MS 2 A XX
Title:
Royal Prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

3. Royal MS 2 B V

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Royal MS 2 B V
Title:
The Royal Psalter
Scope & Content:
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

4. Royal MS 4 A XIV

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Royal MS 4 A XIV
Title:
Fragment of a Missal; collection of St Jerome's and Pseudo-Jerome's works on music and a homily of Origen; fragment of Felix's Vita Guthlaci
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three parts: ff. 1*-2*: a fragment of a late ninth- or early tenth-century Continental Missal. For technical reasons, these folios are labelled flyleaf 1c and flyleaf 2 in the viewer to enable them to display in the correct order; ff. 1r-106v: a mid-10th century coll...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to middle of 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

5. Royal MS 5 E XI

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Royal MS 5 E XI
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Royal MS 5 F III

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Royal MS 5 F III
Title:
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c. 900
Extent:
1 parchment codex

7. Royal MS 6 A VI

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Royal MS 6 A VI
Title:
Commentaries on the Song of Salomon and a theological treatise; Aldhem's letter to Heahfrid, Epistola ad Heahfridum with glosses; Aldhem, De laudibus Virginitatis with glosses.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains: ff. 1r-4v: flyleaves taken from a 13th century manuscript, two of them are commentaries on the Song of Salomon and the other are from a theological treatise. Note that ff. 1 and 4 are bounded upside down. ff. 5r-9r: Aldhem's letter to Heahfrid, Epistola ad Heahfridu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 10th century- 1st half of 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 109 folios.

8. Royal MS 6 B VII

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Royal MS 6 B VII
Title:
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r). Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

9. Royal MS 7 C IV

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Royal MS 7 C IV
Title:
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Royal MS 7 C XII

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Royal MS 7 C XII
Title:
Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:
This volume includes three parts: ff. 2-3 are fragments of canon tables from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, in Latin; ff. 4-218 contain an early copy (possibly written in the 990s) of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, in Old English; ff. 219-231 contain twelfth-cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 700 to 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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