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71. Add MS 48039/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 48039/1
Title:
A medieval bifolium, previously used as binding for Add MS 48039
Scope & Content:
This bifolium was previously used as the cover of Add MS 48039: Papers of Robert Beale relating to religious affairs, c. 1584-1591. Contents: This unfoliated bifolium contains hitherto unidentified fragmentary sections of the Franciscan teacher Nicholas of Lyra (b. c. 1270, d. 1349)’s Postilla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

72. Add MS 48984

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 48984
Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Homiliae in Evangelia (Sermons on the Gospel) by the pope and theologian St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540 , d. 604). The manuscript was donated by the Cistercian abbey of Caerleon to the Cistercian abbey of Hailes in 1248. Contents: ff. 4r-126v: Gregory the Great, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

73. Add MS 49597/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 49597/1
Title:
Fragments of English medieval polyphony
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of 15 fragments of English medieval three-part polyphonic settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. The fragments originate from two disjunct leaves containing part of a Credo, three Agnus Dei (the first and third imperfect) and a Sanctus, using square notation on a black fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

15 fragments of two leaves

74. Add MS 70513

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 70513
Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

75. Add MS 89067

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89067
Title:
A Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of Priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed, published under the name of Thomas Martin (London, Robert Caly, 1554). ESTC S112322; STC 17517. With extensive manuscript annotations.
Scope & Content:
In 1549, John Ponet published a treatise in favour of clerical marriage, entitled A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Add. 89067 is Ponet’s personal copy of Stephen Gardiner’s refutation of his treatise, published in 1554 under the name of Thomas Martin. Ponet ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1556
Extent:

1 volume

76. Add MS 89442

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89442
Title:
Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works
Scope & Content:
An opera omnia of the Welsh physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon (d. in or after 1495), representing the largest and most complete collection of his astronomical and mathematical works. Written under Lewis's supervision, the manuscript contains self-referential rubrics (‘per me Lodowycum ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1485-c 1495
Extent:

1 volume

77. Arundel MS 140

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 140
Title:
Collection of legendary and devotional texts including The Prick of Conscience, Mandeville's Travels and The Seven Sages of Rome; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of Melibee
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is made up of two distinct structural units joined together. The first part (ff. 1-165) contains a collection of legendary and devotional works in Middle English, including The Prick of Conscience, The Seven Sages of Rome, and Mandeville's Travels. The second part (ff. 166-181)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

78. Arundel MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 146
Title:
The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the text of a set of additions to the rules compiled for the sisters of the Brigittine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary, and St Bridget of Syon, founded by King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) in 1415. Other surviving versions of the Additions to the Rule include: London, Guildhall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

79. Arundel MS 153

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 153
Title:
Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England. Contents: ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire. ff. 5r-8r: Dorset. ff. 8v-15v: Somerset. ff. 16r-23r: Devon. ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall. ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex. ff. 27v-31v: Hertfor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

80. Arundel MS 230, ff 162-180

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 230, ff 162-180
Title:
The Office of the Dead
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 162r-180v: The Office of the Dead. The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 174r: Responsory from the Office of the Dead, beginning 'Libera me domine de viis infernie qui portas ereas confregis[ti] [et] visitati infernum et d[edisti] eiis lumen ut viderent te qui eran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
Part of Arundel MS 230

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