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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 71/1
Title:: Detached leaf from a Gradual
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf from the opening of a large illuminated Gradual, made in Ghent between 1480 and 1483. The Gradual was probably commissioned by Margaret of York (b. 1446, d. 1503), duchess of Burgundy, whose arms (formulated after her marriage in 1468 to Charles t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 83
Title:: Psalter and Hours (the 'Howard Psalter') and Psalter (the 'De Lisle Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Contents: The manuscript is composed of at least two formerly independent volumes: ff. 1r-116v: A Psalter and Hours, known as the 'Howard Psalter' (Arundel MS 83 I). ff. 177r-135v: A calendar and the Speculum theologiae, a collection of diagrams attributed to John of Metz, that originally fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1308-c 1340
Extent:: A parchment codex, 135 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 85
Title:: Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (pars II)
Scope & Content:: This is the second volume of a four-volume set; the others are Arundel 103, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 462; the fourth volume is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-170v: Ludolphus de Saxonia (index Ludolf of Saxony), Vita Christi (pars II). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 91
Title:: Passionale, 21 September-9 November; Lections on St Nicholas extracted from the Vita Sancti Nicholai translated by John the Deacon of Naples
Scope & Content:: The main part of this manuscript consists of a Passionale, a collection of lives of saints for liturgical reading throughout the year. The lections on St Nicolas (ff. 227r-229v) have been added at an early period. The manuscript was originally a companion volume to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 93
Title:
Scope & Content:: Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 162, sec. xv., per Raphælem de Marcotellis episcopum Rosenserm congestus. 1. Diodori Siculi Bibliothe Historiarum libri vi. priores, e Græcos in Latinum redditi [per Pog gium Bracciolini Florentinum, cum ejusdem prologo ad Nicolaum Papam V.]. fol. 1. Impress. Bononi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 94
Title:: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). The other volume has not survived, but would have contained books 1-14 of Josephus’s work. This manuscript contains the last books, 15-20, and include...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 98
Title:: Excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus, De viris illustribus; Prefatory epistle to the Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder, Epistula ad Vespasianum; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79)'s Historia naturalis (Natural History), preceded by an excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus (b. 69, d. 140), De viris illustribus (Concerning illustrious men). The manuscript was probably the first volume o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 103
Title:: Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi (chapters 1-60)
Scope & Content:: This is the first volume of a four-volume set; the others are Arundel 85, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 462, the fourth volume is missing. Contents: ff. Ludolphus de Saxonia, Vita Christi, Chapters 1-60. Decoration: Ownership inscription in the form of a large circular design,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1413
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 115
Title:
Scope & Content:: Membranaceus, in folio, ff. 146, anno 1327 exaratus olim monasterii S. Mariæ in Eberbach. 1. Tabulæ veri motus lumae annis 1354-1357. fol. 1. 2. "Liber qui dicitur Almasorius, a magistro Girardo Cremonensi apud Tolletum ex Arabico in Latinum translatus, Abubecri Arazi filii Zacharie"; "liber...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 117
Title:
Scope & Content:: Codex chartaceus, in folio, ff. 335, sec. xv., quondam Johannis de Curthdorf, vicarii ecclesiae Moguntinæ. 1. Tabula contentorum. fol. 1. 2. Martini Poloni Chronicon Summorum Pontificum atque Imperatorum Romanorum, usque ad Honorium IV. an. 1285, et Rudolphiim Hapsburgensem an. 1273 deductum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

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