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1781. Egerton MS 3127

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3127
Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This item comprises 2 parchment leaves from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’,of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the time of F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

2 parchment leaves, bound in an album

1782. Egerton MS 3314

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3314
Title:
Computational and astronomical notes; prognostics
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century scientific manuscript originally formed a single volume with Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff. 120-53 (see Willetts, 'A Reconstructed Astronomical Manuscript from Christ Church Library, Canterbury' (1965), 22-30). It contains a large collection of computistical, astronomical, and pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1783. Egerton MS 3512

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3512
Title:
Thomas Tallis: motet 'Spem in alium'
Scope & Content:
In forty parts with accompaniment for a thorough bass. Adapted to English words 'Sing and glorifie heavens high Majesty' in honour of Princes Henry and Charles, sons of James I. Arranged in full score in five groupings of eight similar voices (and not in choirs of five different voices) with the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 6 folios)

1784. Egerton MS 3721

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3721
Title:
Kalendar; St Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana (excerpts); St Augustine, De Trinitate;De Duodecim Lapidibus (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-8v; ff. 9-86) that were produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Alban at St Albans, and bound together at an early date (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans (1982), p. 92). The scribe of ff. 1-8 copied the St Albans Psalter (Hildesheim, Dombibli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1785. Egerton MS 3760

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3760
Title:
Cistercian Gospel Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript from France contains Gospel readings (lections) for the moveable liturgical feasts for events related to Easter (Temporale) and the immovable liturgical feasts for Christmas and the saints (Sanctorale). Its original contents and additions suggest that the manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1786. Egerton MS 3775

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3775
Title:
St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1787. Egerton MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3776
Title:
St Jerome, Commentaries on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first six books of St Jerome's (b. 347, d. 420) commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Ezekiel. It was produced in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds; it is particularly in this period, during th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

1788. Egerton MS 3781

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3781
Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a single parchment leaf from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the tim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

1 parchment leaf, kept in an album.

1789. Harley Ch 43 B 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 43 B 7
Title:
Grant by Margaret, countess of Kent, to Philip Basset of property in Awlham (?) and Fordham
Scope & Content:
Grant by Margaret (1187x1195-1259), sister of the king of Scots, countess of Kent, to Philip Basset of all her lands, people and service which she held by gift of her husband Hubert de Burgh (c. 1170-1243), once earl of Kent, in the vills of Awlham (?) and Fordham. Date based on the deaths of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1243-1249
Extent:
1 leaf

1790. Harley Ch 43 C 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley Ch 43 C 1
Title:
Confirmation of King Edward of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924) for Bishop Frithestan of Winchester
Scope & Content:
King Edward confirms the grant of Chilcomb, Hampshire, to Bishop Frithestan of Winchester, in return for the bishop’s confirmation to the king of leases for one hundred hides at Downton, Wiltshire, and seventy hides at Beddington, Surrey (with a note that Nursling and Chilbolton, Hampshire, shal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

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