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71. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

72. Add MS 37518

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

73. Add MS 38645

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Title:
Benedictional and Pontifical
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains two collections of blessings: a Benedictional, containing texts for blessing sacerdotal objects, clothes, and monastic buildings; and a Pontifical, containing texts for rites exclusively performed by bishops. The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

74. Add MS 40000

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Title:
The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:
This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

75. Add MS 40007

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Title:
Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of letters and historical works written by Ralph of Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler, ecclesiastic and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London. This volume was probably produced in the scriptorium of St Paul's. The prefatory letter to William de Longchamp (d. 1197), chancel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1195
Extent:

A parchment codex

76. Add MS 41997

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Title:
Burchard of Bellevaux, Apologia de Barbis
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This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Apologia de Barbis (The Defence of Beards) that Burchard (d. 1163), Cistercian Abbot of Bellevaux wrote for the lay brothers of the Abbey of Rosières, a daughter house of Bellevaux. The Apologia is made up of three sermones (speeches) discu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

77. Add MS 46203

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Title:
Missal
Scope & Content:
This late 12th-century Cistercian manuscript contains a ‘Winter missal’, so-called because its Temporale begins on Pentecost XIX (the 19th Sunday after Trinity) and runs to Quinquagesima. The style of the decorated initials suggests that the manuscript was produced at a Cistercian abbey in North...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

78. Add MS 48984

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Homiliae in Evangelia (Sermons on the Gospel) by the pope and theologian St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540 , d. 604). The manuscript was donated by the Cistercian abbey of Caerleon to the Cistercian abbey of Hailes in 1248. Contents: ff. 4r-126v: Gregory the Great, H...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

79. Add MS 62122

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:
This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

80. Add MS 63077

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Title:
Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hut...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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