Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Language: Latin - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 A VII
Title:: John the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni (Life of St Gregory the Great) by John the Deacon of Rome (b. c. 825; d. 880). Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A preface for the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni, beginning: 'Incipit Vita Gregorii papae urbis Romae. Beatissimo ac felicissimo domino Iohann...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B III
Title:: Gregory the Great, Epistles
Scope & Content:: Gregory the Great, Epistles, containing books viii-xiv and the supplement. Contents: ff. 1r-16v: Book viii. ff. 16v-54r: Book ix. ff. 54r-69v: Book x. ff. 69v-: Book xi. Imperfect due to loss of leaves after f. 72v (xi.25-27) and after f. 89v (xi.56 until the end). Text lost at ff. 79r-v du...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VI
Title:: St Ambrose, De Mysteriis; St Ambrose, De Sacramentis; St Ivo of Chartres, De ecclesiasticis sacramentis; St Bruno of Segni, De sacramentis ecclesiae; St Ivo of Chartres, Epistulae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was written by two scribes (ff. 1-22 and ff. 23-126), according to Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community' (1980), p. 314. The second hand (Rochester scribe 4) also wrote Royal MS 5 B IV and Royal MS 15 A XXII, according to Waller. This manuscript consists of two texts...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VII
Title:: Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r). Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 11th century-12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VIII
Title:: Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C I
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI
Title:: The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 1-5v
Title:: The Book of Job (24-42)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: The book of Job (24:20-42:16), imperfect beginning: 'Non sit in recordatione sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum'. Decoration: Small initials in red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A part of Royal MS 6 C VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 6-259
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on the Moralia in Job
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 6r-258v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35), beginning: 'Quotiens in Sancti viri historia per novum volumen enodare mysterium typice expositionis aggredimur'. Book 17 (ff. 6r-15r); Book 18 (ff. 15r-33v); Book 19 (ff. 33v-45v); Book 20 (ff. 45v-61r); Book 21 (ff. 61r-6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A part of Royal MS 6 C VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C X
Title:: Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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