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Reference (shelfmark):: Papyrus 2921
Title:: Didymus the Blind, Commentary on Psalms 33, 34 and 36 (TM 59674, LDAB 776)
Scope & Content:: Portion of a papyrus codex containing Didymus the Blind’s Commentary on Psalms 20-44 (Tura Codex V), recording his lectures on the Psalms, which consist of questions and answers, with detailed comments on words and phrases. The codex is a palimpsest, and traces of the underlying text, written at...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 420-527
Extent:: Seven leaves (three bifolia, one folio) of a papyrus codex (Codex V of the Tura papyri), housed in four glass frames, named Papyrus 2921(A), Papyrus 2921(B), Papyrus 2921(C), and Papyrus 2921(D). The original codex was made of at least 22 quires, each comprising four or five bifolia, having a total of more than 170 leaves; each page has one column of 29-34 lines. Further leaves from this codex are held by the Papyrussammlung of the Institut für Altertumskunde of the University of Cologne, the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (Genève), the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and the Brigham Young University. The codex is a palimpsest, and traces of the under-text are visible in places.

Reference (shelfmark):: Papyrus 3077
Title:: Menander, The Hated Man (Thrasonydes or Misoumenos, lines 101-466) (P. Oxy. XXXIII 2656; MP3 1303.7 + 2312.1; TM 61562)
Scope & Content:: Fragments from Menander's Hated man (Misoumenos or Thrasonydes) preserving lines 101-466.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 4th century
Extent:: Fragments of 4 bifolios of a papyrus codex, mounted in glass cases.

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 3
Title:: The Four Gospels; a Lectionary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Four Gospels with prologues and tables of contents, followed by a lectionary in which readings from the Gospels are divided over the liturgical year. The manuscript has, on stylistic grounds, been identified as a product of the Benedictine abbey of St Remaclus in Sta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 57
Title:: Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1154
Extent:: 1 volume

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