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1. Add Ch 13945

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Title:
Confirmation by Alfonso of Brienne, count of Eu, and his wife Marie de Lusignan, of a grant to the Abbey of St Anthony, Paris
Scope & Content:
Confirmation by Alfonso of Brienne (b. c. 1228, d. 1270), Count of Eu and Grand Chamberlain of France, and his wife Marie de Lusignan (b. c. 1223, d. 1260), with Jean Mathieu, of a grant of 15 bushels of wheat a year to the Abbey of St Anthony, Paris; March 1255. Affixed with two seals. The fir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mar 1255
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add Ch 46402

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Title:
Grant of Berengaria of Navarre, widowed Queen of England, of rents and lands to the abbey of L’Épau
Scope & Content:
Berengaria of Navarre (b. c. 1165, d. 1230), widowed Queen of England (the widow of Richard I, r. 1189-1199), grants rents and lands to the abbey of L’Épau in Le Mans, France. The Cistercian abbey of L’Épau was founded by Berengaria in 1229. Given in 1230 before Berengaria's death in December ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1230
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add Ch 62759

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Title:
Acquittance by Eleanor, abbess of Fontevrault, of a payment from the tolls of Blois
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Acquittance by Eleanor, abbess of Fontevrault, of a payment from the tolls of Blois; given 3 November 1326. Affixed with three seals. The first, fragmentary, brown, with a partial image of a fleur-de-lys, with a fragmentary legend, ‘…di’. The second, fragmentary, brown, with a partial robed fig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1326
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add MS 6523

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Title:
Gospel of St Luke, glossed
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of Luke with interlinear and marginal Gloss. It was probably produced in France (ex. info Michael Gullick), but was in England by the first half of the 16th century. Contents: ff. 1v-156v: The Gospel of Luke with marginal and interlinear Gloss,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 8091

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Title:
Gospel of St John with glosses
Scope & Content:
This early 12th-century manuscript contains the Gospel of John with marginal and interlinear Glossa ordinaria. The Gloss is a commentary on the Bible that was compiled under the auspices of the French theologian Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) in the late 11th or early 12th century. Since the size of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 10084

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Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
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Contents: ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’. ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’. ff. 94r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Add MS 15600

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Title:
Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires with scholia
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Satires (Satires) by the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenal (b. c. 50, d. after 127), together with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1v-125r: Juvenal, Satires, with interlinear and marginal scholia, preceded by a biographical prologue beginning ‘Iuniu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd or 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Add MS 15601

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Title:
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae; Lupus of Ferrières, De Metris Boetii Libellus; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae; Commentary on Persius’ Satires; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus; Prudentius, Psychomachia, Cathemerinon; a short tract on prosody and meter; Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Consolatio Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) of Boethius (b. 480, d. 524) with interlinear and marginal glosses, De Metris Boetii Libellus (A Treatise on Boethius’ Meter) by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 805, d. 862) and the Ilias Latina (Latin Illiad) by Baebius...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Add MS 15602

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Title:
Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis (The Institutions of the Canons of Aachen), the resolutions of the Council of Aachen of 816 pertaining to the life of ecclesiastical canons. The text has been at times associated with Amalarius, bishop of Trier (b. 775, d. 850), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 15732

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Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex