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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 375
Title:: Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of the Liber Historie Francorum (the History of the Franks) in its Austrasian reworking (Austrasia was a Merovingian kingdom situated in the North-East of France), followed by the anonymous Excidium Troiae (The Destruction of Troy) and a part of the Annales Me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 377
Title:: Miscellaneous Astrological texts; Calendar of Saints; Hermann of Reichenau, De Mensura Astrolabii et Ejus Utilitate, cum Tabulis; Ahmad Ibn Muhammed al-Farghānī, Rudamenta Astronomica; Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, De Tabulis Planetarum; Adelard of Bath, Liber Astrolabi; Roger of Hereford, Astrological Tables; Daniel of Morley, De Naturis Superiorum et Inferiorum; William of Conches, Dragmaticon Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of astrological treatises, accompanied by tables and diagrams. ff. 3r-5v: A Calendar of Saints of Ely Cathedral Priory. f. 6r: An anonymous computus text. ff. 6v-15v: Astrological tracts and tables concerning the movement of the sun and the moon, beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 490
Title:: Decretum Gratiani; Collectio Eberbacensis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was written at the very end of the 12th century in Northern France, more likely in Sens than in Paris (see Stirnemann, 'En quête de Sens' (2007), p. 305). The conciliar canons of the third Council of Lateran (1179) provide the terminus a quo for the manuscript. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 17
Title:: Glossed Proverbs, and Glossed Ecclesiastes with prologues
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was most likely written around the mid-12th century in France. It contains the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A prologue to the Book of Proverbs (glossed). ff. 22r-74r: The Book of Proverbs (glossed)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 28
Title:: Glossed Gospel of Mark
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Mark with interlinear and marginal Gloss. The manuscript’s provenance suggests that it was most likely produced in England. Contents: ff. 1r-111r: The Gospel of Mark with marginal and interlinear gloss. [f. 111v is an empty leaf]. Decora...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 29
Title:: Gospel of Luke with Glossa Ordinaria;St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-110r: Evangelium Secundum Lucam (The Gospel of St Luke), with the Glossa Ordinaria (Ordinary Gloss) in the margins, beginning of the Gospel: 'Quoniam quidem multi conati sunt'; beginning of the Ordinary Gloss: 'Vitulus sacerdotalis est hostia', including an interlinear gloss. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 42
Title:: Ambrosiaster, Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century English manuscript contains the Commentaria in Epistolas Beati Pauli (Commentary on the Pauline Epistles), a 4th-century work that is considered to be an important source for the reception of the Pauline Epistles before St Augustine of Hippo. The Commentaria was written by an u...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 216
Title:: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (imperfect); Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Constantinus Africanus, De Melancholia; Peter Abelard, Carmen ad Astralabium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-88v: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans), imperfect, starting at a Nino beli filio rege Assyriorum; preceded by a capitula list (ff. 2v-4v). ff. 89r-93v: Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia (On the destruction of Troy), followed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 275
Title:: Scholastic miscellany
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a high-quality production of scholastic texts important in Parisian university learning in the early fourteenth century, where it was made for Franciscus Caracciolo of Naples, chancellor of Paris (chancellor 1309, d. 1316), to give to his patron, King Robert of Naples (b. 1278...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1309-1316
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 317
Title:: Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Homiliae in Ezecheliem (Homilies on Ezekiel), in two books, written by Pope Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), followed by an excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) (ff. 168v-169v). It has been copied in the last quarter of the 11th century. The par...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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