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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 D X
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Psalter with a calendar (ff. 9r-14r); canticles (ff. 125r-137r): Isaiah 12, 2; Isaiah 38, 10-20; 1 Kings 2, 1-10; Exodus 15, 1-19; Habakkuk 3; Deuteronomy 32, 1- 43; Te Deum; Benedicite; Benedictus; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Gloria in excelsis; Quicumque vult; Magnificat (repeated); Nunc Dimitt...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1200-c 1220
Extent:: 139 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E IX
Title:: Bible (the 'Big Bible' or the 'Great Bible'), with the Gospel of Nicodemus and the Interpretation of Hebrew names
Scope & Content:: Bible, in Latin, of St Jerome's version with the Gospel of Nicodemus. Produced in England (probably London) during the first quarter of the fifteenth century. The manuscript is also known as the Bible of Richard II, but Richard's ownership questioned by Krochalis 1988 and Scott 1996 on chronolog...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VI
Title:: Gospels (the 'Royal Bible')
Scope & Content:: Gospels, Jerome's version, imperfect, with several missing leaves. The numeration of quires running from lxxx to lxxxviii suggests that the manuscript was a part of an integral Bible. Contents: 1v: A purple-stained incipit page with an inscription in gold and silver letters relating to a minia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Early 9th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 77 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VIII
Title:: Bible (2nd of 2 Volumes)
Scope & Content:: This exceptionally large codex is the second of two volumes of the only surviving Bible from late Anglo-Saxon England and the second of only two largely complete, surviving Bibles from England before 1066 (the other being the Codex Amiatinus, now Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino 1). In a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 10th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 A XVIII
Title:: Book of Hours (The 'Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours')
Scope & Content:: The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours is a composite volume composed of two parts produced in different periods, as well as added texts on the flyleaves. It evolved into its present form during the 15th century. Part 1, the earliest portion of the manuscript, is a series of 24 leaves containing suffrag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1401-c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 A XXII
Title:: Psalter ('The Westminster Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Three extracts with the rubric 'Laus sancti Augustini super psalterium', beginning 'Canticum psalmorum animas decorat', 'Canticum psalmorum carmen electum', and 'In psalterio solo'. ff. 1r-4r: Easter tables for the 532 years from 1128-1659, with an explanation beginning, 'In...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1200-c 1250
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B I
Title:: Selection of Psalms, with Prayers and Litanies
Scope & Content:: A Selection of Psalms, Litanies and Prayers in Latin, commissioned by Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, the fourth son of Henry IV (1391-1447). The contents are: ff. 1r-6v, Calendar, of Sarum use, with red-letter feasts of SS. Wulstan, David, Chad, Edward king and martyr., Cuthbert (and transl.), Ri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1430-c1440
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII
Title:: Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Psalter, in Latin, with preceding Old Testament cycle and calendar, followed by Canticles, Litanies, and prayers. Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Cycle of 223 tinted drawings illustrating Old Testament scenes, from the Fall of Lucifer and the Creation to the Death of Solomon, with accompanying Anglo-Nor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 1r-66v
Title:: Old Testament Cycle
Scope & Content:: Cycle of 223 tinted drawings, mostly two per page, illustrating Old Testament scenes from the Fall of Lucifer and the Creation to the Death of Solomon, with accompanying Anglo-Norman explanatory verses. Beginning, 'Coment lucifer chayit de ciel e devient diable e grant multitudo des angeles oues...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 66 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 67r-70v
Title:: Full-page miniatures
Scope & Content:: Four full-page miniatures, some with Anglo-Norman captions and explanatory text. Each prophet (ff. 69v-70r) carries a scroll inscribed with verses (not always correctly assigned); each Apostle (ff. 69v-70r) carries a scroll inscribed with sections of the Creed. Decoration: f. 67v: Miniature of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 4 folios.

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