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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 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 35
Title:
William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-153v: William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum (imperfect). This is the earliest version of the text, composed c. 1130. It lacks the dedicatory letter and ends mid-sentence in the description of Henry I, at 'anglia proposita. Curalibus suis' (f. 153v). The text in Additiona...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Arundel MS 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 37
Title:
Bede, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah
Scope & Content:
Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk of Wearmouth-Jarrow, Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah (In Esdram et Nehemiam prophetas allegorica expositio). Imperfect. Incipit (f. 1r, Book 2, ch. 2): 'Nunc inter hostes multiplicati at quinquaginta ferme milia viri redierunt in patriam'. Explicit of Book 2 (f. 60...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, 67 folios.

4. Arundel MS 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 44
Title:
Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Notated antiphon ‘Audite o lucis filie’ from the Epithalamium in the Speculum Virginum; musical notation: neumes on 4-line staves. ff. 1v-129v: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum; this work is in the form of a dialogue between the teacher, a Benedictine named Peregrinus, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Arundel MS 48

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 48
Title:
Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–174r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum. Decoration: 1 bas-de-page drawing (f. 168v). Large initials in red, green and/or blue with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in green (and red) or red (and green) (ff. 2r, 3r, 4r, 20v, 34v, 53v, 84v, 101r, 143v). Smaller and small initia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Arundel MS 71/1

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

7. Arundel MS 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 140
Title:
Collection of legendary and devotional texts including The Prick of Conscience, Mandeville's Travels and The Seven Sages of Rome; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of Melibee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is made up of two distinct structural units joined together. The first part (ff. 1-165) contains a collection of legendary and devotional works in Middle English, including The Prick of Conscience, The Seven Sages of Rome, and Mandeville's Travels. The second part (ff. 166-181)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Arundel MS 152

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 152
Title:
Documents relating to John Fisher and Thomas More
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–313v: A volume of documents relating to John Fisher (c. 1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas More (1478–1535). It includes the original copy of More’s letter to his daughter Margaret of 2 or 3 May 1535. A note records that this manuscript was damaged in a fire at the binders, 10 Ju...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Arundel MS 268

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 268
Title:
Scientific miscellany
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

Parchment and paper codex

10. Arundel MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 300
Title:
Formulary of psalms and prayers made by Lord Henry Howard
Scope & Content:
This is a formulary in Latin of psalms and prayers compiled by Lord Henry Howard, from 1604 Earl of Northampton. It is written carefully and neatly in his own hand. The title-page, written in English and in another (early 17th-century hand) on the first folio of the parchment volume, calls it ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1540-1614
Extent:
1 volume