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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VIII
Title:: Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI
Title:: The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C X
Title:: Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C IV
Title:: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII
Title:: Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:: This volume includes three parts: ff. 2-3 are fragments of canon tables from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, in Latin; ff. 4-218 contain an early copy (possibly written in the 990s) of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, in Old English; ff. 219-231 contain twelfth-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 700 to 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D II
Title:: Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, bound upside down. ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi, beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam'. Imperfect, ending 'in hoc mundo carnalis conuersatio'. Copied in a 12th-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-17th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI
Title:: Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Apostles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two distinct parts bound together at an unknown period. The first part (ff. 2r-203v) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and other confraternities including the rule of St Benedict (ff. 74r-93v). Several fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 F VI
Title:: Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r–178v: Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, parts 1 and 3, preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v), beginning of the prologue: 'In nomine Sancte Trinitatis incipit liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti quem Paterius de opusculis sancti Gregorii pape cum summo studio exce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 F VIII
Title:: Philosophical works and fragments, chiefly by Roger Bacon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript, containing philosophical and mathematical treatises chiefly by Roger Bacon (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1292), is thought to be the earliest copy of several of Bacon's texts (including the De multiplicatione specierum) and was most likely produced in Oxford in the last quarter of the thir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

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