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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI
Title:: Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v
Title:: Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents written by different hands including an inscription referring to the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preceded by a medieval pressmark. A seal with a ship at the bottom of the folio. ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels) with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX, ff 1-36
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Sedulius, hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino; two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale with interlinear Latin glosses and a few interlinear Old English glosses (ff. 5r, 25r, 28r). ff. 32v-34v Sedulius, the hymn Cantemus, socii, Domino. ff. 34v-35r: An acrostic poem in praise of Sedulius (attributed to Liberatus), beginning: 'Sedul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XXII
Title:: Ælfric, Grammar
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v–3r: Greek numbers and alphabets. ff. 5r–70v: Ælfric, Grammar, ‘Incipit praefatio huius liber. Ego Ælfricus ut minus sapiens has excerptiones … leoðcræfte’ (ends imperfectly). Old English glosses are written interlinear above Latin phrases. f. 71r: Remainder of the text copied...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 C VII
Title:: Dossier of Texts Pertaining to the Cult of St Swithun, including Lantfred's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni and Wulfstan Cantor's Narratio Metrica de Sancto Swithuno
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a dossier of liturgical material pertaining to St Swithun, with Latin and Old English glosses. This includes the earliest copies of Lantfred of Fleury's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni, an acrostic hymn in honour of St Swithun, Wulfstan Cantor's letters to Bishop ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 990-1200
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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