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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XV
Title:: Felix's Vita S Guthlaci
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Felix's life of St Guthlac (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 3723) without its prologue. Latin and Old English glosses and corrections were added later, in the 11th century. Decoration: Large initials throughout.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XXII
Title:: Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum; Excerpt from Frechulf of Lisieux, Chronica; An added poem on the preservation of St Bertin's abbey at St Omer
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of the Historia Langobardorum (History of the Lombards) by Paul the Deacon (d. 799) followed by an excerpt from the Frechulf of Lisieux's Chronicle describing the Ethiopian conquest including Moses's birth, and a poem relating to the preservation of the Benedi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XXIII
Title:: Ado of Vienne, Chronicon sive Breviarium de sex mundi aetatibus; A list of Roman emperors from West and East; A list of dukes of Normandy; Genealogia regum Francorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript contains a chronicle written by Ado of Vienne (d. 874), archbishop of Vienne, focusing on the relationships between Frankish kings and Bavarians. It also includes lists of emperors and dukes of Normandy in addition to a genealogy of Frankish kings. This manuscript may ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 D IX
Title:: The Sanctilogium or Speculum legendarum by Gui de Châtres, abbot of St Denis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the collection of saints’ lives known as the Sanctilogium or Speculum legendarum, that Gui de Châtres, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Denis (1326-1342), compiled around 1320 by extending Usuard’s Martyrologium with materials from the Legenda aurea of J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 D VI
Title:: Excerpt from St Jerome, De viris illustribus; Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates iudaicae (books 1-14)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the first volume of a two volume-set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 98)'s Antiquitates Iudicae (Antiquities of the Jews). It is preceded by an excerpt on Flavius Josephus from St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420)'s De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men). The second volu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 D VII
Title:: Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates Iudicae; Josephus Flavius, De Bello Iudaico
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript is the second volume of a two volume-set containing Josephus Flavius's Antiquitates Iudicae. The first volume is Royal MS 13 D VI and contains books 1-14 of the work written by Josephus. This manuscript consists of the last books, 15-20, and includes Josephus's De Bell...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A II
Title:: Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:: Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:: This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:: Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI
Title:: Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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