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1. Add MS 24059

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Add MS 24059
Title:
1. CHRONICLE of English affairs, extending from the battle of Poitiers in 1356 to 7 Dec. 1384; apparently entered from time to time. Lat. Imperfect at the beginning, ff.1-14, l5b. 2. Note on weights. Lat. f.15. 3. List of the Priors of Durham, from Aldwyn [1087] to Robert Walworth [ob. 1391]; continued to Hugh Whitehead [1519]. Lat. f. 15 b. 4. Short chronicle of events of English history from the invasion of Northumbria by Hingwar and Hubba, 870 [according to the MS. 1000] to 1362. La...
Scope & Content:
city of Durham: Chronicles and lists relating to: 14th-15th centt. includes: ff. 1-14, 15 b, 16 England General Chronicles and History: Chronicle of affairs, 1356-1384,: 14th-15th centt.: Lat.: Imperf. f. 15 b city of Durham: List of the Priors: 16th cent.: Lat. f.15 Weights and Measures: Note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 38818, ff 1-135

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Add MS 38818, ff 1-135
Title:
Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts)
Scope & Content:
This part was copied by a hand described as 'Continental-looking' (unpublished notes by Michael Gullick). The copy of De Architectura (On Architecture) derives from an English version of the text (see Texts and Transmission (1983), p. 443). Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Palladius (fl. 4th century), D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

3. Add MS 39943

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Add MS 39943
Title:
(Yates Thompson 26). LIFE, and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, by Bede, etc., in Latin: the contents are :- (1) Letter of Bede to Bishop Eadfrith, beg. "Domino sancto ac beatissimo patri Eadfrido episcopo .... Quia iussistis dilectissimi," forming a prologue to his prose Life of St. Cuthbert (Migne, Patr. Lat. xciv. 733). f. 2 b;- (2) Letter of Bede to the priest John, beg. " Domino in domino dominorum dilectissimo .... Dici non potest dilectissime," i.e. the letter accompanying the metrical Lif...
Scope & Content:
Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Bookplates. National Art-Collections Fund: Contributed towards purchase of: in 1920. Saint Cuthbert: Life and miracles of, etc., with miniatures: 12th cent.: Lat. Beda: Life of St. Cuthbert by: 12th cent.: Lat. Bookplates: Thompson (Henry Yates), d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 40419

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Add MS 40419
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Scope & Content:
Vol. CCXXXIX (ff. 367). 1-15 Apr. 1835. includes: ff. 1, 3 Edward FitzGerald: Correspondence with Sir R. Peel: 1835. ff. 4, 5 Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London: Correspondence with Sir R. Peel: 1825-1848. f. 7 D- McLaren, of Edinburgh: Letter to Sir R. Peel: 1835. f. 9 William Henry Os...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1835
Extent:
1 item

5. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98

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Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 25–98
Title:
Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 24r-97r: Simeon of Durham, De Exordio Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (Concerning the Beginning of the Church of Durham), including Bede’s Death Song in Old English and written in an imitative Anglo-Saxon vernacular minuscule, beginning: ‘Forþam neodfere nenig wyrtheð’. The manuscript cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

6. Egerton MS 3668

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Egerton MS 3668
Title:
HENRY OF HUNTINGDON, HISTORIA ANGLORUM in ten books, in Latin; written possibly in 1169. Prologue beg. 'Cum in omni fere litterarum studio' (f. l b); book I, 'Britannia igitur beatissima est insularum' (f. 3); book x ends 'et animi pericula non reformidantis fuerit' (f. 156b). The MS. is one of those of the fourth (1145) edition of the chronicle, and concludes where this apparently did originally (see T. Arnold, Henrici Archidiaconi Huntendunensis Historia Anglorum, Rolls Series, lxxiv, 1879...
Scope & Content:
England General Chronicles and History: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum to 1147: [1169?].: Lat. Manuscripts, Dated (to A.D.1500) Latin and Modern (Western European) Languages: MS: [A.D. 1169?]. Lincoln, Lincolnshire: Carmelite house in, owned: 15th cent. Henry, of Huntingdon: Historia ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1169
Extent:
1 item

7. Harley MS 1799

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Harley MS 1799
Title:
Statuta Ecclesiae Dunelmensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-77r: Statuta Ecclesiae Dunelmensis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1555
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 3049

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Harley MS 3049
Title:
Ambrose, De Fide; Joachim of Fiore, Enchiridion super Apocalypsim; and other theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1v: Table of contents. ff. 2r-30v: Ambrose, De Fide ('Liber de fide sancte trintatatis ad Gracianum imperatorem'). ff. 30v-51v: Ambrose, De Spiritu Sancto ('Liber de Spiritu Sancto ad Gracianum imperatorem'); imperfect at the end. ff. 52r-56v: Ambrose, De Incarnationis Domini...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 3864

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Harley MS 3864
Title:
Bede, In epistolas catholicas
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-92v: Bede, In epistolas catholicas; with marginal notes by Symeon of Durham (fl. c. 1090–c. 1128), Benedictine monk and historian. The manuscript contains a few additions: f. 1v: A title inscription: 'Epistola [added: Iacobi]'; added in the 12th century. f. 1v: A title ins...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 5289

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Harley MS 5289
Title:
Missal for monastic use, including a calendar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 9r-493r: Missal for monastic use, including a calendar (ff. 2-7v), highlighting the feasts of the Deposition of St Cuthbert (f. 3r) and St Oswald (f. 5v) in gold; and musical notation (ff. 274r-276r; 285v-286r). The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1r: An inscription b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume