The four Gospels ('Athelstan' or 'Coronation' Gospels)
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The four Gospels with prefatory texts. The detailed contents are as follows: 1. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (ff. 3r-5v); 2. Prologue to the Gospels (ff. 5v-8r); 3. Letter from Eusebius to Carpianus (ff. 8r-9r); 4. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum, II (ff. 9r-9v); 5. Argumentum Evangelii secundum...
Parts of two copies of the Regularis Concordia; Rule of St Benedict; genealogy of the West Saxon kings; horologium; mass prayer; extracts in Latin and Old English from various liturgical, prognostic, homiletic and other texts
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This volume is a composite manuscript, containing various texts copied in the 11th century with some 12th-century additions. These parts were probably bound together in the early modern period. Some folios of the volume's constituent parts have been bound out of order: for example, a medieval ta...
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
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-...
Contents: ff. 174r-177v: Regularis Concordia, probably composed by St Æthelwold (d. 984), bishop of Winchester or his associates. The rest of the manuscript is in Cotton MS Faustina B III, ff. 158-198. The text seems to have been dismembered by Robert Cotton. Using wormholes and an early modern...
Prophetie Merlini (2r–5r) and other prophecies (5r–6r); Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula (6r, 8r–21r, 25v–34v, 37v, 40r–48v); Ralph de Diceto, Abbreuiationes chronicorum (6r–8r, 21r–25v); letters of Pope Alexander III (1159–81) and Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (1162–70) (34v–37v); annalistic continuation, AD 1199–1216 (48v–51v); Osney Chronicle, AD 601–1347 (52r–98r); Award of Norham (98v–99r); annalistic text, AD (?)1303–1308 (99v); Prophecies of Merlin (100r–v); computistical table, AD ...
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Language(s): Latin; Anglo-Norman French (100r–v, 101v)
Thomas Sprott, Chronicle of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, to AD 1221 (107r–168v), with a continuation to Abbot Thomas de Fyndon (1283–1310) (168v–174r); documents relating to St Augustine’s, Canterbury (175r–180r)
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Dated: last quarter of the 13th century; 1st quarter of the 14th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (117r, 168v–180r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century