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1. Add MS 46487

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Add MS 46487
Title:
The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts
Scope & Content:
Cartulary and documents of the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne, Dorset, containing copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters in Latin and Old English, followed by account of the Passion by the four Evangelists, Gospels, collects, blessings and other ceremonies. The boundaries of lands are wri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Arundel MS 153

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 153
Title:
Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England. Contents: ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire. ff. 5r-8r: Dorset. ff. 8v-15v: Somerset. ff. 16r-23r: Devon. ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall. ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex. ff. 27v-31v: Hertfor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Arundel MS 173

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 173
Title:
Bruno of Segni, De Sacramentis Ecclesiae; collections of patristic and canonical texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of excerpts from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 22r-32r: A collection of excerpts about the baptism of saints from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 32r-51r: A collection of excerpts about the body and blood of Christ and the othe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 490

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 490
Title:
Decretum Gratiani; Collectio Eberbacensis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was written at the very end of the 12th century in Northern France, more likely in Sens than in Paris (see Stirnemann, 'En quête de Sens' (2007), p. 305). The conciliar canons of the third Council of Lateran (1179) provide the terminus a quo for the manuscript. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Claudius E V

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Claudius E V
Title:
Notitia Provinciarum; Pseudo-Isidore, Decretales; excerpts from Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Pseudo-Gregory the Great, Decreta; Cartulary of Christ Church, Canterbury; Ralph d'Escures, Letter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-2v: Notitia Regionum et Provinciarum (Names of Regions and Provinces), beginning: 'Incipiunt Nomina .XI. regionum continentium infra se provincias CXIII'. ff. 2v-231v: Pseudo-Isidore (Isidore Mercator), Decretales (Decretals), preceded by a preface (ff. 2v-4r), beginning: 'In ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Cotton MS Julius D III

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Cotton MS Julius D III
Title:
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Tiberius E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Tiberius E IV
Title:
Winchcombe Chronicle; Calendar; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; Bede, De Natura Rerum; Bede, De Temporibus; Abbo of Fleury, De Differentia Circuli et Sphere; Helperic of Auxerre, De Computo; Robert the Lotharingian, Excerptio de Chronica Mariani; Abbo of Fleury, Computus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-27v: The Winchcombe Chronicle, including the bull of Pope Leo III (pope between 795-816) to King Cenwulf of Mercia (reigned 796-821) and his heirs, regarding the monastery where Cenwulf would be buried (Winchcombe) and other monastic houses in England (f. 13v); the purported fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Cotton MS Titus A XXVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Titus A XXVII
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae; Note on British genealogies; Note on place-names in the Historia Regum Brittaniae; Quadripartitus; Instituta Cnuti Aliorumque Regum Anglorum; Marbod of Rennes, De Lapidibus; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno imperatori Graecorum; Anonymous chronicle of England; Gesta Alexandri Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem de Situ Indie; Epitaphium Alexandri; Epigram on Alexander
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three parts that were produced in the same style in the late 12th or early 13th century and joined together at an early stage (ff. 2v-88r; 89r-174v; 176r-217v). The manuscript most likely originates from St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, where it was listed in a 15th-cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Cotton MS Vespasian A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian A XV
Title:
Anonymous compilation of canonical texts and decretals based on the Collectio Tripartita
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-130v: A compilation of canonical texts, false decretals and extracts from papal and episcopal correspondence; the compilation is made from the sources that are part of the canonical collection known as the Collectio Tripartita or Collectio Trium Partium (Tripartite Collection)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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