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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Language Latin Place London, England

1. Add MS 14252

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 14252
Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 40007

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 40007
Title:
Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of letters and historical works written by Ralph of Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler, ecclesiastic and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London. This volume was probably produced in the scriptorium of St Paul's. The prefatory letter to William de Longchamp (d. 1197), chancel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1195
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 3–168

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E III, ff 3–168
Title:
Ralph of Diceto, Abbreviationes Chronicorum, Ymagines Historiarum; Winchester Chronicle
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3v-62v: Ralph of Diceto (d. 1202), Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Abbreviations of Chronicles), beginning: 'In opusculo sequenti trium temporum scilicet ante legem'. ff. 63r-153r: Ralph of Diceto, Ymagines Historiarum (Images of History), beginning: 'Henricus Gaufridi Plantegenest c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius E III

4. Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 174–233

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 174–233
Title:
Nicholas Trevet, Annales Sex Regum Anglie; Pseudo-Methodius, De Initio et Fine Seculi; ‘Hermerus’, Lilium Regnans
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 174r-231r: Nicholas Trevet (b. c. 1258, d. c. 1334), Annales Sex Regum Anglie (Annals of Six Kings of England), 1136–1307. ff. 231v-233v: Pseudo-Methodius, De Initio et Fine Seculi (On the Beginning and the End of this Age). f. 233v: ‘Hermerus’, a political prophecy known as Li...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho D VIII

5. Egerton MS 3775

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3775
Title:
St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Lansdowne MS 420

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 420
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illuminated Psalter that was most likely produced in the diocese of London in the 1220s. The manuscript’s style of decoration appears to be influenced by contemporary French Psalters (Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts (1982), pp. 86-87). Of special interest are the man...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1220s
Extent:

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