This manuscript, known as the Gospels of Máel Brigte, is a Latin Gospel-book with additional texts and extensive marginal and interlinear glosses in Latin and Irish, especially in the Gospel of St Matthew. The glosses used to be associated with the cathedral school in Paris (following Glunz, 'Th...
Maximos Margounios, Bishop of Cythera, Letter of dedication and preface to Brevis tractatus de consiliis (1602) Latin and Greek Printed. Imperfect, lacking beginning of letter in Greek
Contents: 1. ff. 1r-12v: Calendar including North English and Durham saints: Oswin, Guthlac, Wilfrid, John of Beverley, Godric of Finchale, Bede, William (Archbishop of York), Botwulf, Carilef, Bifil, Oswald, Ebba, Aidan, Cuthbert and Hilda. 2. ff. 13r-15v: Obituary for priors and bishops of D...
Richard Rolle, The Middle English Prose Psalter with Latin Canticles
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Contents: ff. 1r-151v: Richard Rolle, the Middle English Prose Psalter, imperfect at the beginning in Psalm 1.1, incipit: 'to hym dey of body and soul.' ff. 152r-170v: Canticles in Middle English with Latin headings including the Old Testament Canticles and Magnificat in Richard Rolle's transl...
Contents: ff. 2r-11v: 'Lez Tenures'. f. 12r: 'Kalendare Curia Baronis'. ff. 12v-33v: 'Curia Baronis'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 34r-36r: 'Kalendare de Natura Brevium' and 'Kalendare de Brevibus Judicialibus'. ff. 36v-105r: 'Natura Brevium'; written in Anglo-Norman. ff. 106r-121v: ...
Collection of chronicles, letters, and charters relating to England and York Cathedral
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A collection of historical texts probably belonging to York Cathedral Priory or a member of the chapter, as indicated by the focus on York and its cathedral in several of these texts. ff. 1v-8r: annals from AD 1-1122, after c. 500 mostly focused on events in England, Latin. f. 9r: various insc...
Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar with canons, and other astronomical texts
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The manuscript includes: 1. Leaves from an antiphonary or breviary used as flyleaves (ff. 1r-2v); 2. Nicholas of Lynn, Astronomical calendar (ff. 3r-33v); 3. Nicholas of Lynn, abbreviated calendar canons, incipit: 'Pro declaracione punctorum...' (ff. 34r-36v); 4. Prognostication text (ff. 3...
Leaves from an antiphonary or a breviary were used as flyleaves at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript. The leaves at the beginning start with chants for 1st and 2nd Sunday in Lent. Space was left for a musical notation.
The astronomical calendar composed by Nicholas of Lynn (fl. 1386–1411), Carmelite friar and astronomer of Oxford. A note, by Thomas Allen, (1540?–1632), mathematician and antiquary of Gloucester Hall, Oxford (f. 31r), according to the Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808), reads: 'Hoc calenda...