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591. Egerton MS 821

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 821
Title:
A collection of astrological, brontomantic, onomantic and oneiromantic treatises; astronomic and computistic texts; herbal remedies, charms and magical amulets.
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century scientific manuscript from Southern France contains a large number of prognostic treatises that are based on the principles of astrology, brontomancy (divination by thunder), onomancy (divination by names), and oneiromancy (dream divination), alongside computistical and astrono...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

592. Egerton MS 857

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 857
Title:
Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:
This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v). Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

593. Egerton MS 873

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 873
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v). ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

594. Egerton MS 945

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 945
Title:
Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

595. Egerton MS 984

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 984
Title:
Proceedings of the condemnation trial of Joan of Arc; extracts from Martial d’Auvergne, Les Vigiles du roi Charles VII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a later copy of the condemnation trial or processus against Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan was put on trial following her capture by the Burgundian army outside the walls of Compiègne on 23 May 1430. Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), Bishop of Beauvais, conduct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

596. Egerton MS 1046

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1046
Title:
Old Testament Vulgate Fragments (Egerton Wisdom Codex)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Vulgate version of Proverbs (imperfect, from Proverbs 4:9 to the end), Ecclesiates, the Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (imperfect, from Ecclesiasticus 1:1-35, 4:10-44:13), and the Song of Songs. The middle section of the codex, from ff. 17-31, is written in a dif...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

597. Egerton MS 1637

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1637
Title:
Calendar and obituary calendar of Schmerlenbach Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a calendar and obituary calendar compiled for the Benedictine Abbey of Schmerlenbach in Bavaria, Germany. Obituary calendars were liturgical calendars that recorded the death anniversaries of a religious house’s former members, patrons, and other local figures. Contents...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

598. Egerton MS 2006

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2006
Title:
The Booke of Gostlye Grace
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the two extant copies of The Booke of Gostlye Grace.The work is a Middle English translation of an abridged version of the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a large collection of the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn (b. 1240/1, d. 1298). Mechtild was a nun of the Bened...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:
1 volume

599. Egerton MS 2204

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2204
Title:
Bede the Venerable, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript originates from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary in Reading. It contains the commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian. This is one of the more than a hundred manuscripts that survi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

600. Egerton MS 2482

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2482
Title:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter
Scope & Content:
Inquisition post mortem of Anne Montagu, duchess of Exeter. These were inquiries into the property of tenants-in-chief (people who held land directly from the Crown). Royal officials would summon jurors to testify to what property the deceased held, what rent they owed, and who was the heir, in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 roll

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