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261. Add MS 48984

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Homiliae in Evangelia (Sermons on the Gospel) by the pope and theologian St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540 , d. 604). The manuscript was donated by the Cistercian abbey of Caerleon to the Cistercian abbey of Hailes in 1248. Contents: ff. 4r-126v: Gregory the Great, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

262. Add MS 52585

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Title:
Miscellany of verse and prose ('The Waferer Commonplace Book')
Scope & Content:
Miscellany volume of verse and prose. Owned by Richard Waferer of Buckinghamshire. Includes verse and prose works by: Joseph Hall; Sir Walter Raleigh; William Shakespeare; Sir Edward Dyer; Robert Southwell, S.J.; Nicholas Breton; and Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex. f. i r Remains of vell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-1628
Extent:
1 volume

263. Add MS 52913

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Title:
Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden
Scope & Content:
Record of a court case between the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh Priory, Devon, and Thomas Chaplain, William Holbele, John Partridge and others of the poor of Morden, Dorset. The case was held at Salisbury Cathedral by John Maydenheth, Vicar-General of the Bishop of Salisbury, in the consist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last decade of the 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

264. Add MS 54229

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Title:
Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

265. Add MS 54782

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hastings Hours', or 'London Hours of William Lord Hastings')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar. ff. 13r-17v: Gospel extracts. ff. 19r-72r: Devotions, consisting of a prayer to Christ, a memorial to the Trinity, Psalm 53 followed by a prayer to Christ and Psalm 129, two prayers to the Virgin, a prayer to Christ, the Eight Verses of St Bernard, memorials...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1480
Extent:

Parchment codex

266. Add MS 57337

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Title:
The Anderson Pontifical
Scope & Content:
The Anderson Pontifical (also known as the Brodie Pontifical) contains an imperfect Pontifical and an imperfect Benedictional, probably written in a major southern English scriptorium at the end of the 10th century or the first quarter of the 11th century. A few Old English glosses and musical n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 988-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

267. Add MS 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

268. Add MS 62540

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Title:
Atlas of Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland
Scope & Content:
Atlas book containing two maps by Laurence Nowell (1530-c. 1570), antiquary, covering Sicily, England, Wales, Ireland and part of Scotland. With itineraries partly in the hand of William Cecil, first Baron Burghley (1520-1598), royal minister. f. 2v: Map of Sicily by Laurence Nowell, possibly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1564
Extent:

1 volume

269. Add MS 63077

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Title:
Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

270. Add MS 70513

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Title:
Collection of metrical saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French ('The Campsey Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the only surviving medieval collection of rhymed saints' lives in Anglo-Norman French. It is known as the 'Campsey Manuscript', after the female Augustinian priory of Campsey, in Suffolk, where it was housed during the 14th century. An added inscription in the manuscript...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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