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1. Royal MS 1 B XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 B XI
Title:
The Four Gospels; Records of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning imperfectly: 'addita sunt. Igitur hec presens prefaciuncula'. ff. 2v-5r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (Preface to St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. 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

3. Royal MS 15 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 B XIX
Title:
Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
Scope & Content:
A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
10th century-11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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