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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 A XV, ff 116v-126v
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Scope & Content:: Song of Songs, in parallel Latin and Greek texts, ff 116v-125v, followed by the prologue to Ecclesiastes, ff 126r-v.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 11 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 B I, ff 59v-64v
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Scope & Content:: 1 Timothy. f 61r is a later addition, containing a note in Latin.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 B VII
Title:: Gospel-book ('The Royal Athelstan Gospels')
Scope & Content:: The four Gospels, in Jerome's translation. Detailed contents: (1) Epistle of Jerome to Damasus, incipit: 'Nouum opus facere', f. 1r; (2) Prologue to Jerome's commentary on Matthew's Gospel, incipit: 'Plures fuisse', f. 2v; (3) Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus, incipit: 'Eusebius Carpiano...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 700-749
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 C VII
Title:: The Rochester Bible
Scope & Content:: Part of a Bible containing the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Kings, according to the Vulgate of Jerome. The New Testament section of this manuscript is now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W. 18; the remainder of the Old Testament section has not survived. Contents: ff. i-vi: added lea...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 D IX
Title:: Gospels (the 'Cnut Gospels')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains the four Gospels, preceded by: Epistle of Jerome to Pope Damasus I, incipit: 'Novum opus facere' (ff. 1r-2v); an extract from Jerome's commentary on Matthew, incipit: 'Plures fuisse' (ff. 2v-3v); Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus, incipit: 'Ammonius quidem' (ff. 3v-4v); pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: Early 11th century-c 1020
Extent:: 150 + 11 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 D X
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Psalter with a calendar (ff. 9r-14r); canticles (ff. 125r-137r): Isaiah 12, 2; Isaiah 38, 10-20; 1 Kings 2, 1-10; Exodus 15, 1-19; Habakkuk 3; Deuteronomy 32, 1- 43; Te Deum; Benedicite; Benedictus; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Gloria in excelsis; Quicumque vult; Magnificat (repeated); Nunc Dimitt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1200-c 1220
Extent:: 139 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E IX
Title:: Bible (the 'Big Bible' or the 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:: Bible, in Latin, of St Jerome's version with the Gospel of Nicodemus. Produced in England (probably London) during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript is also known as the Bible of Richard II, but Richard's ownership questioned by Krochalis 1988 and Scott 1996 on chronolog...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VI
Title:: Gospels (the 'Royal Bible')
Scope & Content:: Gospels, Jerome's version, imperfect, with several missing leaves. The numeration of quires running from lxxx to lxxxviii suggests that the manuscript was a part of an integral Bible. Contents: 1v: A purple-stained incipit page with an inscription in gold and silver letters relating to a minia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 9th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 77 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VIII
Title:: Bible (2nd of 2 Volumes)
Scope & Content:: This exceptionally large codex is the second of two volumes of the only surviving Bible from late Anglo-Saxon England and the second of only two largely complete, surviving Bibles from England before 1066 (the other being the Codex Amiatinus, now Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino 1). In a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 10th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 A XVIII
Title:: Book of Hours (The 'Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours')
Scope & Content:: The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours is a composite volume composed of two parts produced in different periods, as well as added texts on the flyleaves. It evolved into its present form during the 15th century. Part 1, the earliest portion of the manuscript, is a series of 24 leaves containing suffrag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1401-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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