Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Liber Confortatorius; An incomplete account of St Thomas Becket's death; An excerpt from a chant on the martyrdom of St Catherine; An antiphon with neumes; A hymn on St Catherine; Brevis relatio; A genealogy of the kings of England; St Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistula ad Eugenium (imperfect)
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This manuscript contains the unique extant witness of the Liber Confortatorius (ff. 1r-117v) written by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (d. c. 1107) for an English recluse named Eve. Eve left her convent for an anchoritic life in France, under the guidance of Hervé, a monk of Vendôme, near Tours, and s...
Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum
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This manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica (Scholastic History) by the theologian Petrus Comestor (d. 1187). The Historia offers a retelling of the Old and New Testaments and was a popular work in the later Middle Ages. It also includes excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circums...
Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Hierosolymitana; Historia Danica; Pseudo-Cornelius Nepos, Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri; Historia Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
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Contents: ff. 2r-59r: Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1046, d. 1130), Historia Hierosolymitana (The History of Jerusalem). ff. 59r-63v: Historia Danica (The Danish History). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and trans...
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
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This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum; Sermons
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This manuscript from c. 1200 originates from the Augustinian priory of St Mary, Newburgh, in North Yorkshire. It contains the works of the abbey’s most prolific author: the Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English Affairs) by William of Newburgh (b. 1135/6, d. in or after 1198). The Histori...
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, Epistola de Obitu Bede with Bede's Death Song; Folcard of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancti Johannis Beverlacensis (extracts); Aelred of Rielvaulx, Vita Sancti Edwardi Regis et Confessoris; Hugh of Saint-Victor, De Beate Marie Virginitate (extract)
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Contents: ff. 1r-112r: Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), includes the last paragraph of the prologue at the end (f. 112r). ff. 112v-113v: Cuthbert (fl. 735), abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de...
The Histoire d'Outremer, a French translation of the Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum by William, archbishop of Tyre (d. 1185), with a continuation to 1232. The manuscript must have been written after 1232, and probably before c. 1261, when a further continuation of the Histoire ...
Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche
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The manuscript contains the Chroniques abrégées des Anciens Rois et Ducs de Bourgogne, attributed to Olivier de la Marche. On the title page (f. 1v) is the following rubric: 'S'ensuivent aulcunes chroniques, extraittes d'aulcunes anciens registres et aultres enseignements d'anciens rois, prince...
This volume contains an illustrated copy of the Grande Chronique de Normandie, written in Middle French. Originally compiled around 1350, this anonymous work is based on a 13th-century chronicle of Normandy as well as the 12th-century Roman de Rou by the Norman poet Wace (b. c. 1110, d. after 11...
