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1. Arundel MS 36

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 36
Title:
Collection of Saints' Lives
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of saints’ lives and lections from saints’ lives. The manuscript was produced at the Augustian Priory of Kirkham in North Yorkshire, in the first or second quarter after its foundation in the 1120s. Its founder, Walter Espec (d. 1153), also foun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Arundel MS 60

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 60
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff. 1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material ('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs days (dies caniculares) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff. 2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Arundel MS 91

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 91
Title:
Passionale, 21 September-9 November; Lections on St Nicholas extracted from the Vita Sancti Nicholai translated by John the Deacon of Naples
Scope & Content:
The main part of this manuscript consists of a Passionale, a collection of lives of saints for liturgical reading throughout the year. The lections on St Nicolas (ff. 227r-229v) have been added at an early period. The manuscript was originally a companion volume to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 155

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 155
Title:
Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Arundel MS 157

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 157
Title:
The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript is an early example of a Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary attached (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), p. 201 (no. 2). p. 201). The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but probably has a connection with Oxford since its Calendar contains three feasts of St Fri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Arundel MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 235
Title:
Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici
Scope & Content:
This late 11th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Psalms by the theologian Hugh of Langres (d. 1050), Bishop of Langres, and an allegorical interpretation of the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The script and initials, according to Michael Gullick (unpublished notes), s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Arundel MS 377

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 377
Title:
Miscellaneous Astrological texts; Calendar of Saints; Hermann of Reichenau, De Mensura Astrolabii et Ejus Utilitate, cum Tabulis; Ahmad Ibn Muhammed al-Farghānī, Rudamenta Astronomica; Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, De Tabulis Planetarum; Adelard of Bath, Liber Astrolabi; Roger of Hereford, Astrological Tables; Daniel of Morley, De Naturis Superiorum et Inferiorum; William of Conches, Dragmaticon Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of astrological treatises, accompanied by tables and diagrams. ff. 3r-5v: A Calendar of Saints of Ely Cathedral Priory. f. 6r: An anonymous computus text. ff. 6v-15v: Astrological tracts and tables concerning the movement of the sun and the moon, beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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