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1. Add MS 19400

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Add MS 19400
Title:
Letters from English reformers and martyrs
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–110v: Original letters, principally of English reformers and martyrs from the reign of Mary I. Prefixed is a descriptive list of the letters, by the Reverend William Jacobson. ff. 1r–16v: Jacobson’s descriptive list. ff. 17r–v: Letter from Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester to Matthew P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 34652, ff 4-43

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Add MS 34652, ff 4-43
Title:
A collection of single folios from manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century; f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v); f. 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1200-1500
Extent:
40 parchment folios, part of a codex

3. Add MS 89788

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Add MS 89788
Title:
Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:
A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
middle of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Julius C III

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Julius C III
Title:
A collection of original letters addressed to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the correspondence of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), first Baronet, of Conington Hall in Huntingdonshire, antiquarian and founder of the Cottonian Library. Whereas the British Museum’s catalogue describes this manuscript as a ‘collection of 328 original Lett...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1649
Extent:

1 volume

5. Egerton MS 3775

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3775
Title:
St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. 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

7. Stowe MS 57

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