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 12 G VIII
Title:: Liber nouem iudicum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber nouem iudicum, a twelfth-century compendium on judicial astrology. The text provides the statements of nine different authorities, mostly Arabic, on the topics of the twelve astrological houses. The colophon (f. 78r) states ‘Explicit liber nouem iudicum quem mi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 G XIV
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, De universo seu De rerum naturis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Letters from Rabanus Maurus to Louis, King of Germany (843-876), and to Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt (840-853); ff. 3r-5v: Table of chapters; ff. 6r-282v: Rabanus Maurus De universo seu De rerum naturis, an encyclopaedia arranged in 22 books, based on the 'Etymologies' o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A I
Title:: Historia Alexandri Magni and other texts relating to Alexander the Great
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes four works forming a compendium of Alexander's legends in Latin. Contents: ff. 2r-51v: Pseudo-Callisthenes, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated from Greek into Latin by Julius Valerius, beginning, 'De nectanabi prudentia atque...' ff. 51v-78r: Epistola Alexandri ad Ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A III
Title:: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-133r: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, including the prologue addressed to Robert, Earl of Gloucester (ff. 1r-v); the prologue to the Prophecies of Merlin and epistle to the Bishop of Lincoln (ff. 68r-v). Book 9, chapter 20 and Book 10, chapter 1 are lacking (a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: Late 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A IV
Title:: Miscellany of theological, grammatical and historical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Summa de coloribus rhetoricis, beginning 'Ars semper eadem quod autem ex arte' (imperfect); ff. 9r-22r: The Metrical Life of Saint Hugh of Lincoln; ff. 22v-23v: Poem on Troy, beginning 'Pergama flere volo fato Danaum data solo'; ff. 24r-24v: Extract ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 13th century to 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A X
Title:: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii; Passio Sancti Albani; Vita Sancti Runwoldi; Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti; Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis; Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae (fragment).
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-62; 63-103) probably bound together in the early modern period (see Provenance). Part one is from the 4th quarter of 12th century. ff. 1r-53r: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii (Life of St Johannes Eleemosynarius). ff. 53r-55v: Passio ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A X, ff 1-62
Title:: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii; Passio Sancti Albani; Vita Sancti Runwoldi
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-53r: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii (Life of St Johannes Eleemosynarius), including a preface (ff. 1r-2r) and capitula (ff. 2r-3v). ff. 53r-55v: Passio Sancti Albani (Passion of St Alban). ff. 55v-61v: Vita Sancti Runwoldi (Life of St Runwold) with a prologue (ff. 55v-56r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 13 A X

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A X, ff 63-103
Title:: Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti; Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis; Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: The earliest version of the Voyage of St Brendan is contained in the life of Saint Malo (who was his scholar) in this manuscript, adapted by Bili, a deacon of Aleth (now Saint Malo, Brittany) for Ratuili, Bishop of Aleth (c. 866). ff. 63r-98r: Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti (Life...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 13 A X

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:: Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XIV
Title:: Gerald of Wales, Topographia Hiberniae, Expugnatio Hibernica, and other texts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of texts, principally in Latin, written in Ireland between the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, and which formerly belonged to the Dominican convent at Limerick. They include a copy of the Topographia Hiberniae (Topography of Ireland), an a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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