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1. Egerton MS 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 266
Title:
Michael Attaliates, Πόνημα νομικὸν ἤτοι σύνοψις πραγματική (TLG 3079.002)
Scope & Content:
Michael Attaliates, Πόνημα νομικὸν ἤτοι σύνοψις πραγματική (TLG 3079.002). The text from f 45r onwards differs from that in the TLG. The copyist writes on f 56r that the prototype was imperfect: 'τοῦτο περισσὸν ἦν, ἔλιπε δὲ τὸ τέλος'. Marginal comments (mainly in Greek, and a few in Latin) have b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
56 folios

2. Egerton MS 274

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 274
Title:
Musical miscellany in French and Latin
Scope & Content:
A musical miscellany the main part of which was copied in France in the second half of the thirteenth century, with many 14th- and 15th-century additions near the end, the music written both in square notes and Gothic neumes. Alison Stones connects its historiated initials with artistic activity...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
13th century - 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Egerton MS 622, ff 1r-12v

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 622, ff 1r-12v
Title:
Scope & Content:
J. H. Callenberg (ed.), Gregorii Thaumaturgi, Panegyricus, Origeni dictus, Enucleate, Halle 1727 (printed book).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1727
Extent:
12 folios

4. Egerton MS 768

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 768
Title:
Gospels of Luke and John
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-59r: Gospel of Luke; ff. 60r-61v: Prologue and table of chapters to John's Gospel; ff. 63r-104r: Gospel of John; ff. 104v-111v: Lections for the year. Decoration: 4 full-page frames in gold, silver and colours, framing words or initials at the beginning of the Gospels (ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
875-900
Extent:

A parchment codex, 112 folios.

5. Egerton MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 809
Title:
Gospel Lectionary
Scope & Content:
Contents: Gospel lectionary, with readings from the Bible for use at Mass throughout the year, including the Temporale or movable feasts and the Sanctorale or feast days of the major saints. Decoration: 4 full-page framed miniatures in colours and gold of the Nativity, the Holy Women at the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-1125
Extent:

A parchment codex, 50 folios

6. Egerton MS 848

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 848
Title:
Collection of astronomical and astrological material, including a calendar, tables of lunar and solar eclipses, and treatises on the zodiac and planetary signs
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 3r: A set of notes on the altitudes of the sun and moon, written in Middle English. ff. 3v-15r: An astronomical calendar. f. 15v: A set of tables for solar eclipses, between the years 1491 and 1506, and lunar eclipses, between the years 1490 and 1505. f. 16r-v: A lunar calend...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1490
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 874

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 874
Title:
Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent); Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse; Rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with a Hymn for Gregory the Great.
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Fulbert of Chartres's Hymn for Easter and an Easter Hymn, (Te lucis auctor personent), copied in England in the 11th century; Caesarius of Arles's Commentary on Apocalypse, copied in the 9th century in what is now France;and a rhymed office for Saint Augustine ending with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
Parchment codex, 110 folios.

8. Egerton MS 874, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 874, f 1
Title:
Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter; Easter Hymn, Te lucis auctor personent.
Scope & Content:
Contents: These folios include two Latin Hymns for Easter. The musical notations above the verses had likely been added afterwards. f. 1r: Fulbert of Chartres, Hymn for Easter, (Choir of Jerusalem): 'Chorus nove Hierusalem/ Novam meli dulcedinem'. Ending: 'Honorque sit, cum filio/ Et spiritu ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

9. Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67
Title:
Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse
Scope & Content:
Contents: The first 11 homilies on the Apocalype by Caesarius Arles. The end of the 11th homily and the following one seems to have been erased (ff. 67-68v). ff. 2r-67r: Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse (imperfect). Running title: 'Augustinus super apocalipsim. Liber Sancti August...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

10. Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67; 70-110v

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 874, ff 2-67; 70-110v
Title:
Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-67r: contain the first 11 homilies on the Apocalype by Caesarius Arles. Caesarius of Arles, Commentary on Apocalypse (imperfect). Running title: 'Augustinus super apocalipsim. Liber Sancti Augustini'. Rubric: 'In Christi nomine, incipit expositio in apocalipsim Sancti Augustin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment codex