This manuscript contains a brief biographical notice of Statius and Statius' Thebais. Decoration: gold initials (oxidized to green) of varying sizes and rubrics throughout. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae
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ff. i, 241 (flyleaves): Thomas Aquinas, Super Euangelium Iohannis reportatio, from a late 14th-century copy. ff. 1r–237r: John Lathbury, Alphabetum morale siue Distinctiones theologicae. ff. 237r–240v: Sermon on Song of Songs 2:5, Amore langueo, beginning ‘Reverendi magistri patres atque domin...
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
THEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, in Latin, perhaps connected with St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester, viz. :- ff. 4r-16v: De contemptu mundi (also known as De monachis or De vita monachorum), 'Quid deceat monachum vel qualis debeat esse'. ecllIt has been less improbably assigned to Roger of Caen (Hauréau...
This manuscript comprises two volumes of what was originally a set of three separate volumes. Only the first two volumes are now known to have survived. The two volumes are now bound together. Each volume contains a commentary for 50 Psalms. Contents: Royal MS 2 E XIII: ff. 1r-121v: Pseudo-J...
ff. 1v–4v: Accounts of tithes, 16th cent. ff. 5r–6r: Isidore of Seville, Epistula ad Massonem episcopum de lapsis. ff. 6v–81r: Isidore of Seville, Sententiae. ff. 81v–92v: Quoduultdeus, Aduersus quinque hereses. ff. 93r–106r: ‘Tractatus de .vii. gradibus confessionis. Quam magna res sit conf...
ff. 1r-51v: Apocalypse (Revelation); the upper half of each folio contains a miniature and beneath is the accompanying text in Latin, followed by the parallel commentary in Anglo-Norman French verse. Decoration: 102 half-page miniatures in drawings tinted with colours and silver, appearing on...
Contents: ff. 1r–7r: Eusebian canon tables ff. 7v–8r: ‘Exultet’, added in a later hand (an English Caroline minuscule of the end of the 11th century). Hartzell, Catalogue (2006), no. 169 identifies it as the ‘Norman’ version of the melody, written in Anglo-Norman neumes. Omits section 7. ff. ...
This manuscript contains Felix's life of St Guthlac (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 3723) without its prologue. Latin and Old English glosses and corrections were added later, in the 11th century. Decoration: Large initials throughout.
HISTORIA ROMANA, by Paulus Diaconus, with theo. logical works, &c., in Latin, viz.: 1. 'Inicium hystorie Romane quam composuit Paulus diaconus [al. P. Warnefridi]', &c.: the epitome of Roman history by Eutropius, in ten books, with introductory chapter (f. i) and six additional books (f...