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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32246
Title:: Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy
Scope & Content:: The main text of this manuscript is a fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano, copied in the first decade of the eleventh century, probably at Abingdon; the rest of the manuscript is now in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 (formerly MS 47). Förster has reconstructed what the original colla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of 11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 33933
Title:: The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:: Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: c 1564-c 1625
Extent:: 1 volume (94 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34114
Title:: A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34124
Title:: Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34209
Title:: Antiphonal and Gradual of Ambrosian use
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652
Title:: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899); f. 3: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60–62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; ff. 4-43: A collection of leaves from manuscripts from the 12th to the 15t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-15th century
Extent:: A parchment and paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35069
Title:: Single leaves and cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1: Leaf from the end of book 5 and the beginning of book 6 of Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah, 12th century (possibly from the same manuscript as f. 2). Decoration: 1 decorated initial 'Q' in red ink, with spirals of foliage and a dragon. Dimensions: 340 x 228 mm (text space: 260 x...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35167
Title:: Glossed Gospel of St Luke
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Gospel of St Luke with the Glossa Ordinaria. Typically associated with Anselm of Laon, the Glossa Ordinaria (marginal and interlinear) was a commentary designed to help readers interpret the Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prologue without glosses, beginning ‘Lucas S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35180
Title:: Peter the Chanter, Verbum Abbreviatum; Metrical life of Thomas of Canterbury; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus (excerpt); French notes on the compass
Scope & Content:: This early 13th-century manuscript originates from the Cistercian monastery of Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire, as is indicated by its ownership inscription. The manuscript primarily contains a biblical commentary of the French theologian Peter the Chanter (d. 1197), the Verbum Abbreviatum (Abbr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 36668
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is entirely dedicated to the Commentary on Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). An inscription added at the Benedictine abbey of St Maximin in Trier shows that it was in that monastery shortly after its production. Added corrections, punctuation, marginal notation, practice a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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