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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5041
Title:: A Patristic florilegium, imperfect; Vita Sancti Fursei, prayers and chants, imperfect.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two nearly contemporary parts that were bound together at an early period. The first text, dating to the 2nd half of the 8th century, is a unique Patristic florilegium (ff. 1r-78v): it quotes several authors, but its direct source has not been identified. It was produ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5237
Title:: Boethius, De institutione musica (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-42v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione musica (On the Principles of Music), imperfect (Book 1, 23-Book 5, 8) beginning at the chapter 23 of the first book: 'Hoc igitur modo per singular tetrachorda in generum proprietates partitio facta est', ending at the chapter 8...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5251
Title:: Pseudo-Fredegarius Scholasticus, Chronicon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Lansdowne MS 453
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Bible (from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Psalms) with prologues attributed to St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Pelagius (b. 360, d. 418). Contents: f. 1r-2r: St Jerome, Epistula 53 ad Paulinum (Letter 53: To Paulinus). ff. 2r-4r: St Jero...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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

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