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1. Arundel MS 60

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Arundel MS 60
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff. 1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material ('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs days (dies caniculares) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff. 2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Cotton MS Julius A VI

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Cotton MS Julius A VI
Title:
A calendar, computistical texts and tables, Expositio Hymnorum, canticles and poems
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two discrete parts, which were joined together in the medieval period. One part (ff. 2r–17v), copied in the first half of the 11th century, includes a calendar and computistical material. The second part (ff. 18r–80v) contains an early version of the Expositio Hymnorum (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Titus D XXVI

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Cotton MS Titus D XXVI
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including rules of confraternity
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XXVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XXVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). Contents: f. 1r-v: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r-v: Directions for devotions added in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Cotton MS Titus D XXVII

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Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:
Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 3667

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3667
Title:
Easter Table (imperfect); A letter from Dionysius Exiguus to Bonifatius on the date of Easter; Apuleian spheres and scientific diagrams; including Byrthferth of Ramsey’s diagram; T-O world map; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Spherae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains part of a computus, probably compiled by Byrhtferth of Ramsey (b. c.970, d. c.1020) in the late 10th century. This copy was made at Peterborough Abbey in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. A fragment of the same manuscript is now Cotton MS Tiberius C I, ff. 2-17 (see K...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Royal MS 12 E XX

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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

8. Stowe MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 57
Title:
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1154
Extent:

1 volume

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