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1. Arundel MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 16
Title:
Osbern of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Dunstani
Scope & Content:
Osbern, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury, composed this version of the Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan) between c.1089 and c.1093. This is thought to be the earliest of some twenty manuscripts of the text, and it may have been the original Christ Church copy (Alexander, Romanesque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1090-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Arundel MS 91

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

3. Arundel MS 155

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 155
Title:
Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 235
Title:
Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici
Scope & Content:
This late 11th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Psalms by the theologian Hugh of Langres (d. 1050), Bishop of Langres, and an allegorical interpretation of the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The script and initials, according to Michael Gullick (unpublished notes), s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex