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171. Harley MS 3826

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3826
Title:
Alcuin, De orthographia; Bede, De orthographia; Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis; and other grammatical texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts on vocabulary and scribal practices and glossaries. It includes: ff. 1r-24r: Alcuin, De orthographia (incomplete); ff. 24v-71r: Bede, De orthographia; ff. 71v-84r: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bella Parisiacae urbis, book III; ff. 84r-86v: text beginning ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
late 10th-early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

172. Harley MS 7513

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7513
Title:
Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to St Mary’s Abbey, Worcester
Scope & Content:
King Edgar grants to St Mary's Abbey, Worcester, privileges for land at Cropthorne, Overbury, Pendock, Worcestershire; Teddington, Gloucestershire; Mitton in Bredon, Sedgeberrow, Worcestershire; Northwick in Blockley, Evenlode, Daylesford, Dorn in Batsford, Icomb, Gloucestershire; Shipston-on-St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 12th century
Extent:

1 leaf

173. Harley MS 7653

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7653
Title:
The Harley Prayerbook
Scope & Content:
A fragment of a decorated prayerbook with an Old English gloss. 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 Royal MS 2 A XX (the Royal Prayerbook), Harley MS 2965 (the Book of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to first quarter of 9th century
Extent:
1 volume

174. LFC Ch XXI 5

Reference (shelfmark):
LFC Ch XXI 5
Title:
Writ of King Edward the Confessor (1003×5–1066) to Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury (d. 1072) and the community at Christ Church
Scope & Content:
Writ of King Edward granting to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church judicial and financial rights over their own men and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have; 1052 × 1066, probably 1052 (Sawyer, no. 1088). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Carta edwardi regis de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1052-1066
Extent:

Parchment leaf

175. Royal MS 1 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
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

176. Royal MS 2 A XX

Reference (shelfmark):
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

177. Royal MS 2 B V

Reference (shelfmark):
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

178. Royal MS 4 A XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
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

179. Royal MS 5 E XI

Reference (shelfmark):
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

180. Royal MS 5 F III

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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