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1761. Egerton MS 1637

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1637
Title:
Calendar and obituary calendar of Schmerlenbach Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a calendar and obituary calendar compiled for the Benedictine Abbey of Schmerlenbach in Bavaria, Germany. Obituary calendars were liturgical calendars that recorded the death anniversaries of a religious house’s former members, patrons, and other local figures. Contents...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

1762. Egerton MS 2006

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2006
Title:
The Booke of Gostlye Grace
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant copies of The Booke of Gostlye Grace.The work is a Middle English translation of an abridged version of the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a large collection of the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn (b. 1240/1, d. 1298). Mechtild was a nun of the Bened...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

1763. Egerton MS 2204

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2204
Title:
Bede the Venerable, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript originates from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary in Reading. It contains the commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian. This is one of the more than a hundred manuscripts that survi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1764. Egerton MS 2482

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2482
Title:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter
Scope & Content:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter. These were inquiries into the property of tenants-in-chief (people who held land directly from the Crown). Royal officials would summon jurors to testify to what property the deceased held, what rent they owed, and who was the heir, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 roll

1765. Egerton MS 2516

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2516
Title:
Selected works by Cicero and Apuleius
Scope & Content:
ff.1r: "Codex XXXVI Ex Bibliotheca Willelmi Henr[ici] Black Londinin Anno 1827. Emptus ab [....?] 18/11/26" f1v: Table of content ff. 2r-29: Marcus Tullius Cicero: De officiis libri I-III. ff. 30r-69v: Marcus Tullius Cicero: De oratore ff. 70r-77v: Marcus Tullius Cicero: De amicitia ff. 78r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

1766. Egerton MS 2627

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2627
Title:
Claudianus Claudius, Carmina Majora, Carmina Minora, De Raptu Proserpine
Scope & Content:
This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), including De Raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for whom he was a court poet, and the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1767. Egerton MS 2724

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2724
Title:
Folding calendar-almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folded calendar-almanac (imperfect), beginning at July, with tables of dominical letters, astronomical diagrams and prognostications and dates of significant biblical and historical events. The 13 inner folds contain the following diagrams and tables: ff. 1r-3r: Calendar pages with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1404
Extent:
3 strips of parchment sewn together, folded into squares

1768. Egerton MS 2781

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2781
Title:
Book of Hours, use of Sarum (The 'Neville of Hornby Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, consisting of: ff. 2r-7v: A calendar, with numerous English saints; ff. 9r-20v: 23 Salutations of the Virgin in Latin, each beginning 'Ave et gaude'; ff. 21r-25r: Prayers to the Virgin in Latin, some with rubrics in Anglo-Norman; ff. 25v-26r: Prayer f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1769. Egerton MS 2782

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2782
Title:
Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Isaiah by Haimo (or Haymo) of Auxerre (d. 853). Haimo was one of the key figures in the revival of learning in the Carolingian period. Contents: ff. 1-124v: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah). [ff. 125r-125v are blank]. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

1770. Egerton MS 2809

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2809
Title:
Grant of manors from King Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves
Scope & Content:
Deed whereby King Henry VIII grants to Anne of Cleves, in part satisfaction of dower and jointure, the manors of Great Waltham, Mashbury, Dunmow, Great Leighs, Great Baddow and Farnham in Essex. These were worth 312 marks 8 s. 1.25 d. yearly, and formerly held by Henry’s third wife Jane Seymour....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
5 January 1540
Extent:
1 volume

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