Project / Collection: England and France 700-1200 Project / Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 A XVIII
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-11v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 12r-66r: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by a preface (ff. 12r-13r). ff. 66r-99r: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by a preface (ff. 66r-67r) and capitula (ff. 67r-68r). ff. 99v-159v: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by capitula (ff. 99...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 B XI
Title:: The Four Gospels; Records of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning imperfectly: 'addita sunt. Igitur hec presens prefaciuncula'. ff. 2v-5r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (Preface to St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 E XIII
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 2 E XIV. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue of Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning: 'Incipit Breviarium Sancti Hieronimi praesbiteri in psalterio. Proxime cum Origenis psalterium, quod encheridion ille vocab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in Psalmos
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises two volumes of what was originally a set of three separate volumes. Only the first two volumes are now known to have survived. The two volumes are now bound together. Each volume contains a commentary for 50 Psalms. Contents: Royal MS 2 E XIII: ff. 1r-121v: Pseudo-J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 E XIV
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is bound with Royal 2 MS E XIII. Contents: ff. 1r-136r: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning at the end of Psalms 50 'Vel multi habent cor contricum' to Psalm 100. Decoration: Small initials in red, some with penwork decoration, with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 D II
Title:: Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1225
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 E IX
Title:: Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160)'s Gloss on the Pauline Epistles or Magna glossatura. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 B XV
Title:: Augustine, Enchiridion; Autpert Ambrose, Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum; John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub Figura Persecutionis; Lectiones de Miraculis Sancti Lethardi Episcopi; Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. i recto-48v [Part 1]; ff. 49r-56v [Part 2]; 57r-64v [Part 3]; and 65r-133v [Part 4]) that were produced between the 4th quarter of the 11th century and the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (see 'Provenance' for the dating of the separate parts). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XI
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 A VII
Title:: John the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni (Life of St Gregory the Great) by John the Deacon of Rome (b. c. 825; d. 880). Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A preface for the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni, beginning: 'Incipit Vita Gregorii papae urbis Romae. Beatissimo ac felicissimo domino Iohann...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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