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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B XI
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Scope & Content:: MANUAL, in Latin, of Sarum use. Imperfect, and perhaps made up of parts of two or more manuals. Articles 1-7, four quires and one leaf, are continuous, but the Offices of the Dead are in other hands, and the Sponsalia again in a separate quire written in long lines in a hand distinct from the ot...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B XII-XIII
Title:: 2 B. xii, xiii LECTIONARY of the Mass, in Latin. Two volumes (epistles and gospels). Each contains the Festivale followed by the Sanctorale and Commune, and the days are the same in each, except that the gospels for SS. Matthias and Mark, omitted in their proper order, are inserted (vol. ii, f. 34 b) at the end of the Proprium Sanctorum, there is no gospel for the Visitation of the Virgin, and a gospel for the Eleven Thousand Virgins is placed at the end of the Commune. Music is given in th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1508
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B XIV
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Scope & Content:: PSALTER, in Latin, with twelve Canticles (f. iii b), Litany (f. I22), and Office of the Dead (Sarum use, f. I26 b); preceded (f. i) by a Calendar (English saints), with added obits as below. Executed probably for Isabella, sister of Richard, Duke of York, aunt of Edward IV, and wife of Henry Bou...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B XV
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Scope & Content:: HOURS &c., executed probably for Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, or some member of his family. A similar book of Hours, with closely related ornament and the same obits, is Harley MS. 2887. The Harley MS., of less pretentious execution, is perhaps the earlier, as the latest of the obits, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1495-c 1510
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 C I
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Scope & Content:: PETRUS COMESTOR, Historia Scholastica; with the ' prologus epistolaris', addressed to William [de Champagne], Archbishop of Sens [1168-11]76, afterwards Archbishop of Reims, and Cardinal], beg. 'Reverendo patri et domino suo Guillelmo' (f. 2). The work itself beg. 'Imperatorie maiestatis est tre...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 C II
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Scope & Content:: COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLES OF S. PAUL, in Latin, by Petrus Lombardus [Professor of Theology at Paris, and Archbishop of Paris 1159, d. 1160]. Prol. beg. 'Principia rerum requirenda', and commentary, 'Paulus servus Iesu Christi, &c. : Hucusque enim pendet littera' (Migne, cxci. 1297). The com...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 C III
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Scope & Content:: HOMILIAE (121) de tempore [only from Septuagesima to Easter Eve] et de sanctis, in Latin, chiefly by SS. Jerome, Augustine, Leo, Gregory, Maximus and Beda. The initial words are given in the Index. At the end are added in a 12th cent. hand, two pieces in verse, viz. (a) Forty-two lconine hexamet...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 11th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 C IV
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Scope & Content:: BOOKS OF THE MACCABEES (1 and 2), in Latin, with the commentary of Rabanus Maurus. Preceded by the usual prologues (Berger, Prefaces, no. 192) addressed to Louis I of France (beg. 'Domino excellentissimo et in cultu Christianae religionis strenuissimo'), and to Geroldus, archdeacon of the palace...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

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