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11. 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

12. Royal MS 7 C IV

Reference (shelfmark):
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

13. Royal MS 7 C XII

Reference (shelfmark):
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

14. Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v

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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

15. Royal MS 7 D XXIV

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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

16. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v

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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

17. Royal MS 12 C XXIII

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

18. Royal MS 12 D XVII

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

19. Royal MS 12 E XX

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

20. Royal MS 13 A XV

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

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