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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 2r-3v
Title:: Fragments of canon tables
Scope & Content:: This item consists of fragments of canon tables, apparently taken from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, possibly made in Northumbria. The Greek letter 'pi' appears in a colophon. Due to the size of the manuscript fragments, it is possible that they come from the same volume as Cambridge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 7th or 1st quarter of 8th century
Extent:: 2 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v
Title:: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Scope & Content:: This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 214 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 219r-231v
Title:: Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:: This item contains extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche (beginning 'Augustinus quoque sanctus in sermonibus de sabbato Pasche refert et hec'), as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus and fragments of Cassiodorus Senator's Expositio Psalmorum. There are lar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:: 12 folios, part of 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 D XXV
Title:
Scope & Content:: CHRONOLOGICAL, philosophical, astronomical, medical, and other collections, in Latin: evidently the book, or more probably copies from the book, of a man of unusual learning. It seems worth suggesting that this scholar may be Adelard of Bath (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), the translator of Euclid, who...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

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