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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46487
Title:: The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts
Scope & Content:: Cartulary and documents of the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne, Dorset, containing copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters in Latin and Old English, followed by account of the Passion by the four Evangelists, Gospels, collects, blessings and other ceremonies. The boundaries of lands are wri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 82956
Title:: The Noyon Sacramentary
Scope & Content:: This unusually tall and thin manuscript contains a sacramentary: a manuscript that provides the texts needed for a bishop to perform Mass and carry out ordinations, blessings, and consecrations. This sacramentary was produced in the late 10th century by and for Noyon Cathedral. The sacramentary ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 36
Title:: Collection of Saints' Lives
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of saints’ lives and lections from saints’ lives. The manuscript was produced at the Augustian Priory of Kirkham in North Yorkshire, in the first or second quarter after its foundation in the 1120s. Its founder, Walter Espec (d. 1153), also foun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 60
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff. 1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material ('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs days (dies caniculares) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff. 2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican ve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 91
Title:: Passionale, 21 September-9 November; Lections on St Nicholas extracted from the Vita Sancti Nicholai translated by John the Deacon of Naples
Scope & Content:: The main part of this manuscript consists of a Passionale, a collection of lives of saints for liturgical reading throughout the year. The lections on St Nicolas (ff. 227r-229v) have been added at an early period. The manuscript was originally a companion volume to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 155
Title:: Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 157
Title:: The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is an early example of a Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary attached (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), p. 201 (no. 2). p. 201). The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but probably has a connection with Oxford since its Calendar contains three feasts of St Fri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230, ff 1-6
Title:: Philippe de Thaon, Comput; De Singulis Mensibus; Calendar; Psalter in Anglo-Norman verse (Prologue); List of perilous days (in Anglo-Norman); prose instruction for masses (in Anglo-Norman)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), Comput, imperfect; the work continues on ff. 182r-194v; the correct order is ff. 1r, 182r-183v, 185r-185v, 194r-194v, 184r-184v, 192r-192v, 186r-191v, 193r-193v (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), pp. 190-91 [no. 346]). f. 1v: Anonymo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Arundel MS 230

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230, ff 7-161
Title:: The Book of Psalms, canticles and hymns with an interlinear translations in Anglo-Norman; Litany of Saints
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 7r-146r: The Book of Psalms, with an interlinear translation in Anglo-Norman. ff. 146r-157v: Canticles and hymns (Confitebor tibi , Ego dixi, Exultavit cor meum, Cantemus domino gloriose, Domine audivi, Audite celi, Benedicite, Te Deum, Benedictus, Quicumque Vult), with interlin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Arundel MS 230

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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