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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 10 D VIII
Title:: Gratian's Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria of Bartholomew of Brescia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a thirteenth-century copy of Gratian's Decretum, a comprehensive compilation of canon law that includes decisions of Church councils, papal bulls, and excerpts from the Fathers of the Church, which was first composed in Bologna between 1139 and 1158. In addition to the D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 D III
Title:: The Burghley Atlas
Scope & Content:: An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1574-1592
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII
Title:: Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The text is based on a Middle English translation known as the 'defective version' because it is thought to have been translated from a manuscript in Anglo-Norman French that was lacking the second gathering, omi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 A XXIII
Title:: Complimentary verses and address to Elizabeth I on her visit to Oxford by Geoffrey Lewis, of Christ Church
Scope & Content:: Complimentary verses and address to Elizabeth I on her visit to Oxford by Geoffrey Lewis, of Christ Church. In Latin and Greek. Greek elegiac ode inc. (f 2v) Εἰ πολιτῶν νοῦς, γλῶσσα σοφῶν, εἰ δῆμος ἕκαστος, and address (f 3r) ᾽Επὶ πολλῶν μὲν ἄν τις ὁρᾶν.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1566?
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI
Title:: Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 9th century-10th century
Extent:: A 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 15 A I
Title:: Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Archidamus
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of Archidamus, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley. The manuscript is a presentation copy, probably intended as a New Year's gift fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 C XI
Title:: Galen, De diebus decretoriis libri III
Scope & Content:: Galen, De diebus decretoriis libri III (TLG 0057.065), with a few marginal notes party in Latin. Followed on f 104v by a table of weights and measures, inc. ὁ μέδιμνος ἔχει λίτρας ρμδ, possibly a variant of [Galen] De ponderibus et mensuris (TLG 0530.022) fr. 58 (inc. ὁ μέδιμνος ἔχει λίτρας μη').
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 104 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A XXIII
Title:: Ado of Vienne, Chronicon sive Breviarium de sex mundi aetatibus; A list of Roman emperors from West and East; A list of dukes of Normandy; Genealogia regum Francorum
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript contains a chronicle written by Ado of Vienne (d. 874), archbishop of Vienne, focusing on the relationships between Frankish kings and Bavarians. It also includes lists of emperors and dukes of Normandy in addition to a genealogy of Frankish kings. This manuscript may ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 16 D III
Title:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, with an imperfect Latin translation by Petrus Morellus
Scope & Content:: John Tzetzes, Antehomerica, with an imperfect Latin translation by Petrus Morellus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 paper codices

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