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1. Royal MS 1 B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 B VII
Title:
Gospel-book ('The Royal Athelstan Gospels')
Scope & Content:
The four Gospels, in Jerome's translation. Detailed contents: (1) Epistle of Jerome to Damasus, incipit: 'Nouum opus facere', f. 1r; (2) Prologue to Jerome's commentary on Matthew's Gospel, incipit: 'Plures fuisse', f. 2v; (3) Epistle of Eusebius to Carpianus, incipit: 'Eusebius Carpiano...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
700-749
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Royal MS 1 C VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C VII
Title:
The Rochester Bible
Scope & Content:
Part of a Bible containing the books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Kings, according to the Vulgate of Jerome. The New Testament section of this manuscript is now Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS W. 18; the remainder of the Old Testament section has not survived. Contents: ff. i-vi: added lea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Royal MS 1 D X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 D X
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Psalter with a calendar (ff. 9r-14r); canticles (ff. 125r-137r): Isaiah 12, 2; Isaiah 38, 10-20; 1 Kings 2, 1-10; Exodus 15, 1-19; Habakkuk 3; Deuteronomy 32, 1- 43; Te Deum; Benedicite; Benedictus; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Gloria in excelsis; Quicumque vult; Magnificat (repeated); Nunc Dimitt...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1200-c 1220
Extent:

139 folios.

4. Royal MS 1 E VI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 E VI
Title:
Gospels (the 'Royal Bible')
Scope & Content:
Gospels, Jerome's version, imperfect, with several missing leaves. The numeration of quires running from lxxx to lxxxviii suggests that the manuscript was a part of an integral Bible. Contents: 1v: A purple-stained incipit page with an inscription in gold and silver letters relating to a minia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 9th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 77 folios.

5. Royal MS 2 A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 A XVIII
Title:
Book of Hours (The 'Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours')
Scope & Content:
The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours is a composite volume composed of two parts produced in different periods, as well as added texts on the flyleaves. It evolved into its present form during the 15th century. Part 1, the earliest portion of the manuscript, is a series of 24 leaves containing suffrag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1401-c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

6. Royal MS 10 E IV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 10 E IV
Title:
Decretals of Gregory IX with gloss of Bernard of Parma (the 'Smithfield Decretals')
Scope & Content:
The Decretals of Gregory IX, edited by Raymund of Penyafort (or Peñafort); with the glossa ordinaria of Bernard of Parma in the margin. The text is dedicated to the University of Paris (f. 4r), but both the text and gloss were written in Southern France, probably in Toulouse, and include a chara...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1340
Extent:

314 folios.

7. Royal MS 11 E XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 11 E XI
Title:
Magister Sampson, Benedictus de Opitiis and others, Motets
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of motets by a 'Magister Sampson', formerly believed to be bishop of Chichester 1536 and of Coventry and Lichfield 1543-1554, but now thought to be a composer from the Netherlands, and by Benedictus de Opitiis, preceded by a hymn in honour of Henry VIII, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1516
Extent:

17 folios.

8. Royal MS 12 C VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII
Title:
Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes the Apologues by Pandolfo Collenuccio of Pesaro (ff. 3v-71r), and Lucian's Dialogues (ff. 71v-87v), prefaced with a dedicatory letter to Henry VIII by Geoffrey Chambers, who presented the book to the King on his retum from a journey to Italy (ff. 1v-3r). In the binding ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1509-c 1517
Extent:

87 + 19 folios.

9. Royal MS 12 C VIII/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C VIII/1
Title:
Detached binding from Pandolfo Collenuccio, Apologues and Lucian of Samosata, Dialogues (Royal MS 12 C VIII)
Scope & Content:
Post-1600 detached chemise binding embroidered with gold and silver thread and seed-pearls with the badge and motto of Prince Henry Frederick (1594-1612), formerly attached to Royal MS 12 C VIII and now stored separately.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
Detached chemise binding

10. Royal MS 12 C XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 C XIX
Title:
Bestiary with theological texts
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a direct copy of the Worksop Bestiary, New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 81 (see Two East Anglian Picture Books: A Facsimile of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary and Bodleian Ms. Ashmole 1504, ed. by Nicholas Barker (London: The Roxburgh Club, 1988), p. 5, who characterises...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200-c 1210
Extent:

1 volume