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1. Add MS 37785

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Add MS 37785
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WORKS by SS. Isidore and Alcuin, with a fragment in an Irish hand, viz.:- 1. "Liber beati Isidori Hispalensis episcopi ad Florentinam de summo bono": the Sententiae of S. Isidore, Bishop of Seville (Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxiii. col. 537). In three books. A table of capitula precedes each book. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 38112

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Add MS 38112
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MISCELLANEOUS theological treaties, viz.: 1. "Passio beati Thome martyris Cantuariensis archiepiscopi" : the anonymous "Passio" printed from two other MSS. by J. A. Giles, Vita S. Thomae, ii, 1847, p. 137, Migne, Pair. Lat. cxc, col. 317, and by J. C. Robertson, Materials for the hist. of T. Becket, iv, 1879, p. 186 (Bibl. Hag. Lat. no. 8209). In the passage noted by Giles (Migne, col. 319, note 29) the present text agrees with the Paris as against the Bodl. MS., but with some differences. B...
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Bindings GERMAN: Beech boards, covered with stamped calf: 16th cent. Theology: Miscellancous theological treatises: 12th cent.: Lat. includes: f. iii b Daniel Papebroch, Bollandist: List of contents written by: 17th cent. ff. i, iii b Press-marks: Q. -MS. i (Tongerloo Abbey ?). f. 1 Saint Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 46919

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Add MS 46919
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WILLIAM HEREBERT COLLECTION Collection of treatises, poems, sermons, etc., in Anglo-Norman French (items 12, 13, 19, 29, 30, 32 are Continental French), Latin and Middle English, compiled by Fr. William Herebert of Hereford (d. 1333?), who wrote or annotated considerable portions of the manuscript. Herebert entered the Franciscan Order at Hereford, and studied in Paris and Oxford, where he became forty-third Reader in Divinity to the Friars Minor (see A. Emden, A Biographical Register of th...
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Poetry FRENCH: Religious and secular poems: 14th cent. William Herebert, OFM, of Hereford: Compiled: 14th cent. includes: ff. 2-14b Walter de Bibbesworth: Treatise on the French language: 14th cent.: Fr. with Engl. glosses.ff. 15b-18b William Twiti, alias Twici; huntsman to Edward II: Tre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
before 1333?
Extent:
1 item

4. Burney MS 293

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Burney MS 293
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Augustine, De doctrina christiana, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, and various sermons and homilies, including same by Pseudo-Augustine; Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis; Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis, imperfect
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Augustine, De doctrina christiana (ff. 3r-113r), De perfectione iustitiae hominis (ff. 114r-118r), and various sermons and homilies (ff. 131r-135r), including same by Pseudo-Augustine; Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis (ff. 135r-166r); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

5. Burney MS 309

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Burney MS 309
Title:
Rule of St Benedict and other monastic texts.
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ff. 1-26v: Rule of St Benedict ff. 1-2: Prologue. Inc. “Asculta o fili praecepta magistri tui” ff. 2-3: List of chapters. ff. 3-26v: Text. Inc. “Monachorum quattuor genera.” Expl. “…culmina deo protegente pervenies” (PL 66, 215-930) ff. 27-28v: “Bona lectio et sub compendio ad monachos” Inc. Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.

6. Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 8–173

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Cotton MS Otho D VIII, ff 8–173
Title:
Passional (February–March), comprising: Passio Sancti Ignatii; Vita Sancte Brigide Virginis; Passio Sancti Blasii Episcopi; Passio Sancti Triphonis martyris; Passio Sancte Agathe Virginis et Martyris; Alcuin, Vita Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Haiminus of Saint-Vaast, Miracula Sancti Vedasti Episcopi; Baudemundus, Vita Sancti Amandi Traiectensis Episcopi; Vita Sancti Ansberti Episcopi; Vita Sancte Austroberte Virginis; Vita Sancte Euphrasie Virginis; Passio Sancti Valentini Martyris; Passio Sanct...
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This part of the manuscript contains a Passionary or Legendary, containing the lives of saints for feasts in the period of February–March. Contents: ff. 8r-12r: Passio Sancti Ignatii (The Martyrdom of St Ignatius) [Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, no. 4256]. ff. 12r-26v: Vita Sancte Brigid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Otho D VIII

7. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff 2–173
Title:
Miniature of Æthelwold, Edgar and Dunstan; Regularis Concordia; collection of prognostics; confessional prayers; prayers and devotions; Ælfric, Colloquy; prognostics; Bede, De Temporibus, revised by Ælfric; Life of St Margaret; Ælfric, homily for Palm Sunday; miscellaneous texts including a collection of homilies; contents page; miniature of St Benedict, enthroned; Rule of St Benedict; various texts including capitula of the Council of Aachen, 817
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These folios contain an 11th-century copy of Regularis Concordia, the Rule of St Benedict, prognostics, prayers, homilies, other texts and two miniatures. It may have originally formed a miscellany for a churchman or archbishop (see Cooper, Monk-Bishops (2015), p. 263). Late 11th- or early 12th-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century-Mid 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

8. Harley MS 3036

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Harley MS 3036
Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in evangelia
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Contents: ff. 1-3v: Numerous added texts and excerpts, written by several 12th-century hands, beginning with Alcuin (d. 804), Ad Pueros Sancti Martini de confessione peccatorum (To the young men of Saint-Martin on the confession of sins), and including a short account of the life of Hugh, abbot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Harley MS 3070

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Harley MS 3070
Title:
Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis; Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi
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Contents: ff. 1r-9v: Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis. ff. 10r-46v: Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon futuri saeculi. Decoration: Large (2-line) initials in red or green, occasionally with penwork decoration. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143

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Harley MS 4980, ff 76-143
Title:
Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi; Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem; Questiones de Sancta Trinitate; De animae ratione: liber ad Eulaliam virginem
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Contents: ff. 76r-123r: Alcuin, De fide Sanctae Trinitatis et de incarnatione Christi (On faith in the Holy Trinity and on the incarnation of Christ), preceded by the dedicatory epistle (ff. 76v-78v) and capitula (ff. 78v-80v). ff. 123v-126r: Alcuin, Invocatio ad Sanctam Trinitatem (Invocation...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 4980