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51. 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

52. Add MS 61735

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Title:
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1007-1025
Extent:
A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

53. Add MS 61901

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Title:
Folcard, Life of St John of Beverley; Beverley Cartulary
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–10v: Folcard, Life of St John. ff. 10v–60v: Accounts of miracles performed by John, including a passage on the rights and privileges purported to be given by King Æthelstan to Beverley Minster (ff. 22r–25r) and extracts concerning John from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica (ff. 53r–58v). ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

54. Add MS 71687

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Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose), with added glosses in Old English
Scope & Content:
This bifolium once belonged to one of the earliest known surviving copies of the prose version of the De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

55. Add MS 74948

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Title:
ARTHUR AGARD, AL. AGARDE, ANTIQUARY: Abstract of the Great Domesday; circa early 17th cent. Copy. Latin and Old English. Agard (1540-1615), a clerk in the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1570 and one of its two deputy chamberlains from 1603, had completed his abstracts of the Great and Lesser Domesdays by Mar. 1599. The present manuscript comprises (ff. 1-101) entries drawn from each of the thirty-one counties represented in Great Domesday, concluding with a selection of 'Clamores de Eurewicsc...
Scope & Content:
Arthur Agard, Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer: William I of England: Domesday Book: Thomas Jekyll, clerk of the papers in the King's Bench: Abstract of the Great Domesday by Arthur Agard, with additions by Thomas Jekyll: circa 1600-1625: Latin and Old English: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

56. Add MS 82931

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Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

57. 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

58. Add MS 89169

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Title:
Cartulary of Burton Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references. ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer. ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

59. 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

60. 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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