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131. Add MS 15603

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Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: A fragment of a Missal, written in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. ff. 2r-184r: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), bishop of Seville, Etymologiae (Etymologies), followed by a versified colophon of four lines, beginning: 'Laudetur christus nostros qui perficit actus / Et sum...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

132. Add MS 15686

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Title:
The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare, a German translation of the Regula sororum sancta Clarae, promulgated by Pope Urban IV, 18 October 1263, written for the nuns of St Clare of Villingen, Swabia; ending with a Latin colophon, 'Explicit regula Sancte Cla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480
Extent:
1 volume

133. Add MS 15722

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Title:
Liturgical hymns and sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a commentary on the penitential Psalms (ff. 1r-35r), dated to 1142 (f. 35r: ‘·cus·xlus·iius’), and a collection of sermons and hymns (ff. 36r-75v), that originate from the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Both parts were written at the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

134. Add MS 15732

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Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

135. Add MS 16414

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Title:
Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum; John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum; John Cassian, Collationes; John Cassian, De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum (Epistle to Cassian). ff. 2r-47r: John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum (Institues of the Monasteries), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-v). ff. 48r-193v: John Cassian, Collationes (Collations), preceded by a list of the colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

136. Add MS 16606

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Title:
Gregorius the Great, Dialogi; Ephraim the Syrian, Sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot was written during the abbacy of Erlebald (1158-1192) or Gerard (1191-1210). The manuscript originally contained Gregory the Great’s Dialogi (Dialogues), a collection of sermons by Ephraim the Syrian (b. c. 306, d. 373), but a number of shor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

137. Add MS 16918

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Title:
Usuard, Martyrology; lections for Sundays and liturgical feasts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was originally bound together with Add MS 16979, containing a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Gilles and the Rule of St Benedict. The original manuscript was copied by scribe who identifies himself as 'Petrus Guillelmus', a Benedictine monk from Saint-Gilles, and wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1129
Extent:

A parchment codex

138. Add MS 16950

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Title:
Gradual, Cistercian Use ('The Seligenthal Gradual')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Hymns (beginning imperfectly). ff. 4v-166v: The Temporal, from the first Sunday in Advent (beginning 'Ad te levavi') to the 23rd Sunday following Pentecost (beginning 'Dicit dominus ego'), including the Litany (ff. 100r-102v). ff. 167r-237r: The Sanctoral, from St Step...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 volume

139. Add MS 16961

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Title:
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
This 10th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Rule of St Benedict. The commentary was written by Smaragdus (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), a monk from the Benedictine abbey of of Saint-Mihiel near Verdun, after the Rule of St Benedict (b. 480, d. 547) had been made the norm for all monastic ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

140. Add MS 16963

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Title:
John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:
This is a 10th- or 11th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia). It contains the life of St Gregory the Great (d. 604) by John the Deacon of Rome, also known as Johannes Hymonides (d. late 9th century), a popular work among monastic audiences. The manuscript remained...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century-11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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