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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 857
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v). Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 873
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v). ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 874
Title:: Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent); Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse; Rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with a Hymn for Gregory the Great.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Fulbert of Chartres's Hymn for Easter and an Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent), copied in England in the 11th century; Caesarius of Arles's Commentary on Apocalypse, copied in the 9th century in what is now France;and a rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 110 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 877
Title:: Passio sanctae Margaretæ; Seven Penitential Psalms
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated Passio sanctae Margaretae (Passion of St Margaret). The account ends with a Latin prayer (f. 12r) for a woman in childbirth and invokes Sts Elizabeth, Anna and Mary to free the mother from her pains. Several of the miniatures in the manuscript appear to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 889
Title:: ASTRONOMICA varia, scil. Tabulæ chronologlcæ et astronomicæ;-Schema nativitatis Regis Henrici VI. anno 1421 ;-Theorica Planetarum, secundum Campanum [in other copies it is ascribed to Walter Brytte and Simon Bredone; see Tanner];-Tabula declinacionis Solis, secundum Bredone;-Tabulæ aliæ astronomicæ variæ, cum canonibus;-Tabulæ Johannis de Lineriis, cum canonibus ejusdem, super easdem;-Canones Magistri Johannis Watere, quondam socii Collegii Wyncestrie, Oxonie, super tabulam equacionis domoru...
Scope & Content:: John Watere, of Winchester Coll., Oxford: Canones super tabulam equacionis domorum, etc. William Reed, Bishop of Chichester: Canones tabularum Oxoniensium. Johannes de Lineriis: Tabulæ astronomicæ, cum canonibus. C- Kingstone: Observations on the eclipse of the sun, at Cambridge: 1517.: Lat. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 931
Title:: Pontifical, use of Sens ("The Pontifical of Guillaume II de Melun")
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. [ii] recto: Notes added by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873), keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum between 1837 and 1866: a list of the archbishops of Sens of the family of Melun between 1325 and 1474; a note speculating on the identity of the bishop of Sens for whom t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1346-c 1360
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 943
Title:: Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), with a commentary in Latin
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-62r: Inferno, with Latin commentary. Incipit, 'In principio istius Comedie videndum est quicquid Auctor intendit declarare in universo'; f. 62v: Chapter list of Purgatorio; ff. 63r-126r: Purgatorio, with Latin commentary; ff. 129r-186r: Paradiso, with Latin commentary up to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 188 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 944
Title:: Lord Henry Howard (later Earl of Northampton), 'Regina Fortunata'
Scope & Content:: 'Regina Fortunata' is a Latin treatise composed by Lord Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Northampton, about the year 1576. This is evidently a presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth I. It is written fair in the italic hand of a scribe (this seems more likely than it is in Howard's own hand), with ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1576
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 945
Title:: Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 970
Title:: A COLLECTION of papers on theological matters, of the xviith and xviiith centuries, in French, viz.:- Extract from Antoine Varillas' "Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans l'Europe en matière de Religion," f. l. ;-Copies of acts, memoirs, and papers, relating to the dissension between the Papal Court and the Court of France, upon the subject of the abolition of the privileges of Ambassadors at Rome, 1687, 1688, f. 15;-" Réponse aux remonstrances du Clergé, sur le cinquantiame," temp. Loui...
Scope & Content:: Louis XIV of France: Papers relating to differences with the Pope relative to the privileges of ambassadors at Rome: 1687, 1688.: Fr. Court of Rome: Differences with France: 1687, 1688.: Span. and Fr. Antoine Varillas: Extract from the same.: Fr. Louis XV of France: Réponse aux rémonstrances ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17th century-18th century
Extent:: 1 item

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