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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C X
Title:: Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C IV
Title:: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D II
Title:: Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, bound upside down. ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi, beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam'. Imperfect, ending 'in hoc mundo carnalis conuersatio'. Copied in a 12th-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-17th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1
Title:: Fragment of a writ
Scope & Content:: This folio contains a fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, dated 1540. It is bound upside down in the present volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corpore et Sanguine Christi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi (About the Body and the Blood of Christ), beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam' and ending, imperfect, 'in hoc mundo carnalis conversatio'. Decoration: large initial in red with penwork decoration (f. 2r). Ru...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:: Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v
Title:: Early modern copy of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith (Ehfrid) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff 163r-165v : Aldhelm, Letter to Ehfrid, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young in the 17th century. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI
Title:: Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Apostles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two distinct parts bound together at an unknown period. The first part (ff. 2r-203v) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and other confraternities including the rule of St Benedict (ff. 74r-93v). Several fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI, ff 104-133
Title:: Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Aposles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 104r-133v: The Gospels of St Mark (imperfect, beginning in 15:40), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and ending with the prologue to the Acts; beginning: '[Mag]dalene et Maria Iacobi minoris, Joseph mater et Salome', ending: 'anim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 E VI

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