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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Davis80
Title:: Glossed Book of Ezekiel
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Book of Ezekiel with Gloss. The manuscript, according to Julian Harrison (unpublished note, see 'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings ( «http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings» [accessed 02 March 2018]) was written by a French scribe in France or England...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Davis386
Title:: The Gospels of Matthew and Mark with Glosses
Scope & Content:: The manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 13th century contains the Gospels of Matthew and Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It features a Parisian Romanesque binding by the so-called ‘Starry Griffin’ binder, and historiated initials by the so-called ‘Almagest’ workshop, named after a c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: DD/Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/1
Title:: Liber Pontificalis (Pontifcal of Glasgow)
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript was formerly bound together with the Coronation Book of Charles V of France, numbered ff. 35-80, now Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII/2. The folio numbering of this part (ff. 3-34, 81-197) is that of the composite volume, bound together by Cotton in the 17th century as Cotton...
Collection Area:: Corporate Archives
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 608
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: This highly illuminated 11th-century manuscript contains the four Gospels with prologues by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Eusebius of Caesarea (b. 260, d. 339), Eusebian canons and a capitulare evangeliorum, assigning pericopes from the Gospels to most feasts of the liturgical year. It is one o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 609
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 654
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 821
Title:: A collection of astrological, brontomantic, onomantic and oneiromantic treatises; astronomic and computistic texts; herbal remedies, charms and magical amulets.
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century scientific manuscript from Southern France contains a large number of prognostic treatises that are based on the principles of astrology, brontomancy (divination by thunder), onomancy (divination by names), and oneiromancy (dream divination), alongside computistical and astrono...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 857
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v). Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 873
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v). ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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