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1. Egerton MS 159

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 159
Title:
Collection of medical tracts in Irish
Scope & Content:
Medical tracts compiled from various sources. A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 280-85. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Definitions taken from Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinæ. ff. 3r-7r: Medical maxims and definitions...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1592
Extent:
1 volume

2. Egerton MS 608

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Egerton MS 608
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This highly illuminated 11th-century manuscript contains the four Gospels with prologues by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420) and Eusebius of Caesarea (b. 260, d. 339), Eusebian canons and a capitulare evangeliorum, assigning pericopes from the Gospels to most feasts of the liturgical year. It is one o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Egerton MS 609

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 609
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Egerton MS 613

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613
Title:
Prose and Verse Miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character. ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm) The core parts of the manuscript were compl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

5. Egerton MS 654

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 654
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Egerton MS 675

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 675
Title:
Collection of sermons in Middle Dutch
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of sermons, principally by the Burgundian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), as well as Nicholas of Clairvaux (fl. 1145/6-1176/8), Guerric of Igny (b. c. 1070/80, d. 1157) and Fulgentius of Ruspe (b. 462/467, d. 527/533), translated from the orig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 745
Title:
Devotional miscellany, including the Lives of St Denis and Edward the Confessor
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: La vie de Saint Eustace; ff. 25r-27v: : Les Dix Commandemens; f. 27v-28r: Laidenge et convoitise; ff. 28v:-30v: Le sermon de Saint Beneoit (Saint Benedict); f. 30v: Les 15 Joies Nostre Dame; f. 31v: Meditations; f. 33r: Les sept vertus; f. 33r Une prière d'un cheva...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 232 folios

8. Egerton MS 747

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 747
Title:
A collection of medical texts including Tractatus de herbis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-106v: Tractatus de herbis, here attributed to Bartholomæus Mini de Senis; ff. 106v-109r: Images of plants; ff. 109v-111r: An added text on forecasting (fragment) with a lunar calendar (f. 111r) in Gothic cursive of the mid-14th century; ff. 112r-124v: Antidotarium Nicolai; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c1280-1350
Extent:

A parchment codex, 147 folios

9. 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

10. 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

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