Subject: Liturgy / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Titus D XXVII
Title:: Liturgical and computistical collection (‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’), including a calendar and an Easter-table chronicle
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Titus D XXVII and Cotton MS Titus D XXVI originally formed one manuscript which began with Cotton MS D XVII and was followed by Cotton MS D XVI (see Henel, De temporibus anni (1942)). This volume includes Ælfric's De temporibus anni; an alphabetical prognostic; miscellaneous notes; off...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd decade of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B XX
Title:: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury saints etc; charters and privileges allegedly granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r–v: Charter of Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury (between 597-604), granting privileges to the Benedictine monastery of St Peter and St Paul (St Augustine’s, Canterbury). ff. 3r–18v: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (Canterbury), Historia minor de adventu sancti Augustini, preceded b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D II
Title:: Penitential and similar texts including excerpts from Gennadius of Marseilles, Liber Ecclesiasticorum Dogmatum, and Bernard of Clairvaux, Parabolae; Canones Penitentiales Secundum Ieronimum; Fulbert of Chartres, De Peccatis Capitalibus; anonymous penitential texts; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De Ortu et Tempore Antichristi; Pseudo-Jerome, Quindecim Signa Ante Iudicium; a collection of sermons for liturgical feasts, including sermons by St Wulfstan, St Augustine of Hippo, St John Chrysostom, and ...
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a large collection of penitential texts, papal decrees, conciliar canons, liturgical and theological treatises, sermons, miracles and exempla. Although the manuscript has previously been dated to the 11th or 12th century, the identification of sermons by Geoffrey Babio (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian D XI
Title:: Lawrence of Durham, Consolatio de Morte Amici; Hypognosticon; Oratio pro Laurentio; Oratio pro Naufragis; Oratio pro Iuvenibus Compeditis (imperfect); Oratio pro Milone (imperfect); Maledictio
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains works by Lawrence of Durham (b. c. 1110, d. 1154), poet, hagiographer, and prior of Durham Cathedral Priory. The manuscript primarily contains the Hypognosticon (‘Abbreviation’), a poem that recounts the biblical history of mankind from its creation until pr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XVIII
Title:: A liturgical calendar with computus tables; a Sacramentary
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An early modern table of contents. f. 2r: A prayer beginning: 'Omnipotens sempiterne Dominus', followed by an added prayer written by a contemporary hand, beginning: 'Deus qui salutis eterne Beate Marie'. f. 2v: A lunar calendar for calculating the moveable feasts. ff. 3r-8v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This 11th-century manuscript is one of the six Gallican Psalters with a continuous Old English that are extant from England in the period between 975 and 1075 (see Gretsch, The Intellectual Foundations of the Benedictine Reform, 2004). Four of these Psalters, including this manuscript, were prod...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1142/1/1/74
Title:: De Sacramentis
Scope & Content:: Various kind of paper and ink; 20 fascs bound by cord. Extent: 407 ff. Size and dimensions of original material: 26x19x8 cm. Condition of original material: Good. Arrangement: In the library's storage; on the metal movable shelves. Original institution reference: MS 222. Related countries:...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin and Spanish
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 816 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1142/1/1/95
Title:: Messale tridentino
Scope & Content:: Parchment; black ink; marginal adnotations; in envelope. Extent: 1 ff. Size and dimensions of original material: 12.5x9.3 cm. Condition of original material: Good; after conservation. Arrangement: In the library's storage; on the metal movable shelves. Original institution reference: MS 251...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 2 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1142/1/1/122
Title:: Fragments of liturgical texts
Scope & Content:: Note-book; black ink; kept in envelope. Extent: 53 ff. Size and dimensions of original material: 24.5x18.5 cm. Condition of original material: Good. Custodial history: From St John the Baptist, Ayn Karim (Ein Karem). Arrangement: In the library's storage; on the metal movable shelves. Orig...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 107 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1142/1/1/132
Title:: Matutini tenebrarum cum noti
Scope & Content:: Hand-made paper; black, red, blue & silver ink; musical notation; decorated frontiscpiece and inicials; cover; imitation of brown leather. Extent: 19 ff. Size and dimensions of original material: 19.3x13x1.5. Condition of original material: Partly damaged by worms. Custodial history: Fro...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1749
Extent:: 50 TIFF images

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