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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24914
Title:: Bede, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Expositio; De Dei Judicie; St Jerome, In Ecclesiasten; Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum (12 homilies); Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beate Marie Egyptiace; Marbodius of Rennes, Vita Sancti Laurentii; De Adnuntiatione Beatae Mariae; Vita Metrica Sancti Friderici Episcopi Leodiensis; Frederick I of Schwarzenburg, Epistola ad Clerum Leodiensem; Rudolf of Saint-Trond, Carmen de Theoderico Trudonensi Abate; Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio super Cantica Canti...
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century theological miscellany was owned and may also have been produced by the Benedictine abbey of Sint-Truiden (St Trond), also known as St Trudo’s Abbey. The larger part of the manuscript is composed of biblical commentaries by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), St Jerome (b. 347...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25014
Title:: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-117r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), preceded by the preface (ff. 3r-v), beginning: 'Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice hystorie gentis anglorum. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolfuulfo Beda famulus Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25312
Title:: Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apocalypse; Odo of Cambrai, De canonibus evangelorium; Table of consanguinity.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-2v: Haimo of Halberstad, Preface to the Commentary on the Apocalypse, rubric: 'Incipit Epythoma succincte expositionis super librum apocalypsin', prologue: 'Legimus in ecclesiastica historia beatum Iohannem a Domiciano'. ff. 2v-133r: Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 135 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25434
Title:: Richard of Ireland (pseudonym), Les Prophecies de Merlin.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains only Les Prophecies de Merlin (imperfect): a collection of historical and ecclesiastical prophecies (written c. 1274-1279) purportedly dictated by Merlin to 'Maistre Antoine', bishop of Wales, and other scribes. The work, however, also features narrative materials about M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26760
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-187r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23 to 35. Decoration: One large decorated initial 'P'(refacionem) with interlace, floriated motifs and zoomorphic elements, in a multi-coloured frame, with green, red, yellow and blue (f. 1r). Nine large decor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26761
Title:: Origen, Commentary on Matthew (Chapter 36-end)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains part of the commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by the Church Father Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254). The manuscript was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. It was preserved in the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26762
Title:: Theological tracts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological tracts. It was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the eldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. The manuscript was preserved in the abbey's library from the 12th century until the monastery was dissolved by F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26866
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-229v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses from the Parva Glosatura (Minor Glosses) on the Psalms commonly attributed to Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) and his school, imperfect. It also includes the Canticles (ff. 214v-229v). Decoration: Large framed 'B' for 'Beatus' in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27695
Title:: Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: This item comprises 15 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 t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-1340
Extent:: 15 parchment leaves and fragments, bound in an album.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27920
Title:: A noted Breviary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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