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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 654
Title:: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 675
Title:: Collection of sermons in Middle Dutch
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of sermons, principally by the Burgundian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), as well as Nicholas of Clairvaux (fl. 1145/6-1176/8), Guerric of Igny (b. c. 1070/80, d. 1157) and Fulgentius of Ruspe (b. 462/467, d. 527/533), translated from the orig...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1461
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 747
Title:: A collection of medical texts including Tractatus de herbis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Tractatus de herbis, here attributed to Bartholomæus Mini de Senis; ff. 106v-109r: Images of plants; ff. 109v-111r: An added text on forecasting (fragment) with a lunar calendar (f. 111r) in Gothic cursive of the mid-14th century; ff. 112r-124v: Antidotarium Nicolai; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c1280-1350
Extent:: A parchment codex, 147 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 821
Title:: A collection of astrological, brontomantic, onomantic and oneiromantic treatises; astronomic and computistic texts; herbal remedies, charms and magical amulets.
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century scientific manuscript from Southern France contains a large number of prognostic treatises that are based on the principles of astrology, brontomancy (divination by thunder), onomancy (divination by names), and oneiromancy (dream divination), alongside computistical and astrono...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 857
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v). Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 873
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v). ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 945
Title:: Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 984
Title:: Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conduct...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1046
Title:: Old Testament Vulgate Fragments (Egerton Wisdom Codex)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Vulgate version of Proverbs (imperfect, from Proverbs 4:9 to the end), Ecclesiates, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (imperfect, from Ecclesiasticus 1:1-35, 4:10-44:13), and the Song of Songs. The middle section of the codex, from ff. 17-31, is written in a dif...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 8th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1139
Title:: Psalter (The 'Melisende Psalter')
Scope & Content:: The Psalter conforms to the standards of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Office of the Dead is the use of Bayeux (according to Dondi, The Liturgy, 2004, p. 64). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-12v: Prefatory cycle of illumination from the lives of the Virgin Mary and Christ; ff. 13r-19r: Calenda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1131-1143
Extent:: A parchment codex, 218 folios

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