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21. Add MS 34652, f 3

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Title:
Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1025-1050
Extent:
1 folio, part of a parchment codex

22. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

23. Add MS 40000

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Title:
The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:
This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

24. Add MS 46204

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Title:
Worcester cartulary fragments (‘Wulfstan Cartulary’/‘Nero-Middleton Cartulary’/‘Oswald Cartulary’)
Scope & Content:
One leaf and two strips of a leaf from a Worcester cartulary. Another portion of this item is Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, ff. 181–184, the original position of the complete leaf being between ff. 182 and 183, the strips coming from an earlier part of the cartulary. Thought based on its size to have ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

3 parchment fragments

25. Add MS 46487

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Title:
The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts
Scope & Content:
Cartulary and documents of the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne, Dorset, containing copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters in Latin and Old English, followed by account of the Passion by the four Evangelists, Gospels, collects, blessings and other ceremonies. The boundaries of lands are wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

26. Add MS 47967

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Title:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos ('The Old English Orosius' or 'The Tollemache Orosius' )
Scope & Content:
The Tollemache Orosius (also known as the Lauderdale Orosius or Helmingham Hall 46) contains the oldest known copy of the Old English translation of Orosius's Historia adversus paganos. The compiler condensed this text in some places and augmented it in others to explain classical allusions and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
900-1699
Extent:

Parchment codex

27. Add MS 57337

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Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

28. Add MS 89137

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Title:
Rental of the lands of Worcester Cathedral Priory
Scope & Content:
Descriptive rental of Worcester Cathedral Priory, 1240, with additional material for 1253–1285 and 1365. There is a contemporary rubric on f. 2r, reading ‘Hii fuerunt redditus prioratus Wigorniensis Anno Incarnationis Domini moccoxlo’. Includes copies of charters issued in the name of various k...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1240-1365
Extent:
1 item

29. 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

30. Arundel MS 155

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Arundel MS 155
Title:
Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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