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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v
Title:: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Scope & Content:: This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 214 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 219r-231v
Title:: Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:: This item contains extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche (beginning 'Augustinus quoque sanctus in sermonibus de sabbato Pasche refert et hec'), as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus and fragments of Cassiodorus Senator's Expositio Psalmorum. There are lar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:: 12 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1
Title:: Fragment of a writ
Scope & Content:: This folio contains a fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, dated 1540. It is bound upside down in the present volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corpore et Sanguine Christi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi (About the Body and the Blood of Christ), beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam' and ending, imperfect, 'in hoc mundo carnalis conversatio'. Decoration: large initial in red with penwork decoration (f. 2r). Ru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:: Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v
Title:: Early modern copy of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith (Ehfrid) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff 163r-165v : Aldhelm, Letter to Ehfrid, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young in the 17th century. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 104-133
Title:: Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Aposles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 104r-133v: The Gospels of St Mark (imperfect, beginning in 15:40), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and ending with the prologue to the Acts; beginning: '[Mag]dalene et Maria Iacobi minoris, Joseph mater et Salome', ending: 'anim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 B XIV, ff 1r-73v
Title:
Scope & Content:: "Eusebius Gallicanus", Homiliae (ff 1r-27r); Iulianus Pomerius, De uita contemplatiua uita, attributed to Prosper (ff 28r-73v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 73 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 B XIV, ff 74r-117v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Hrabanus Maurus, De uniuerso (excerpts, imperfect) (ff 74r-115v); Greek alphabet with translations and equivalents in Roman numbers (f 115v); account of a miracle at Chivy near Laon in the time of Bishop Helinand (1052-1098) (ff 115v-117v)
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

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