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1. Add MS 38816-38824

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Title:
Dunn Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Purchased at the sale of the library of the late Mr. George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
9 items

2. Add MS 38819

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Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: Psalter, use of York. ff. 1r-6v: An Augustinian Calendar, with some Cistercian additions. ff. 7r-135v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect, some Psalms are lacking (lacking Psalms 1:1-5; 9:3-15; 10:4; 11:7; 31:8; 33:7; 34:16; 36:4; 45:1; 47:13; 77:17-33; 91:1; 93:12; 101:11; 105:28; 112:4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 38818

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A collection of works by Palladius, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Justinian, St Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, and Robert of Basevorn
Scope & Content:
This manuscripts consists of three different parts that were bound together before 1592, as follows: ff. 1-135: Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts). ff. 136-190: Indices of words and c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 38817

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Title:
Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Tabernaculo (On the Tabernacle) and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian, followed by a letter about his de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 38816

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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS volume containing : 1. Hexham Saints and their miracles, by Ethelred (Ailredus), Abbot of Rievaulx, headed "Incipiunt miracula sanctorum patrum qui in sancta Hagustaldensi ecclesia requiescunt, dictata a uenerabili Hethelredo abbate." Beg. "Presentis diei festiuitas." Printed in Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 38821

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Scope & Content:
REGISTRUM BREVIUM, statutes and other legal collections, temp. Edw. I, doubtless compiled for use in Lincolnshire. Contents: 1. "Registrum": a register of writs in the name of Edward I, and evidently compiled in the first years (1272-1275) of his reign, since the formulae of the writs of De nati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1285
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 38818, ff 191-262

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Add MS 38818, ff 191-262
Title:
A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Formerly bound in a different order. This part was originally prefaced by Robert of Basevorn (fl. 14th century), Forma predicandi (Form of Preaching). Contents: ff. 191r-255v: A collection of sermons in several hands. The original order of this collection is given at the end in a list of cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

9. Add MS 38818, ff 1-135

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Add MS 38818, ff 1-135
Title:
Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts)
Scope & Content:
This part was copied by a hand described as 'Continental-looking' (unpublished notes by Michael Gullick). The copy of De Architectura (On Architecture) derives from an English version of the text (see Texts and Transmission (1983), p. 443). Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Palladius (fl. 4th century), D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

10. Add MS 38818, ff 136-190

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Add MS 38818, ff 136-190
Title:
Indices of words and concepts related to works of St Augustine and Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini; a table of chapters of Isidore of Seville, Sententie libri tres
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 136r-185v: Indices of words and concepts related to different works of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). It includes also an index for Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 463), Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini (Epigrams on St Augustine's Sentences). Indices on St Augusti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A part of Add MS 38818