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1. Add MS 4899

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Title:
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and one of the leading theologians of the 12th century. The manuscript was produced in England in the 12th century and belonged to the Carthusian abbey of Witham in the 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 11853

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Title:
The Pauline Epistles with Gloss
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Pauline Epistles with the Gloss by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. c. 1076, d. 1154), biblical commentator and theologian, bishop of Poitiers (f. 193r: ‘Expliciunt Glosæ Magistri Gisleberti pictavensis episcopi super Epistolas pauli’). The text has been written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 11873

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Title:
Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three theological works by Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 530). It was copied at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny, where it may have remained in its library until the monastery was destroyed by French Revolutionary forces in 1790. Contents: ff. 1r-58v: Augustine of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 11878

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced in Luxeuil and contains book 23 and the first part of book 24 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. It is a fragment from a larger volume. Other fragments from the original volume are now Add MS 41567 (f. 118); Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. ms. 2243 (ff. 1-2); Paris, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 22820

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Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Jeremiah
Scope & Content:
A colophon at the end of this manuscript states that this book was written by Herimann, a monk from the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, for its then abbot St Majolus (b. c. 906, d. 994). This leaves no doubt that the manuscript was written during his abbacy from 956 to 992, and makes it one of the e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 26866

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Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-229v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses from the Parva Glosatura (Minor Glosses) on the Psalms commonly attributed to Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) and his school, imperfect. It also includes the Canticles (ff. 214v-229v). Decoration: Large framed 'B' for 'Beatus' in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 38130

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Title:
Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the early 12th century mainly contains a life and sermons concerning the 9th-century Benedictine monk St Neot, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735). Its script and op...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 38687

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Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, Commentaries on Deuteronomy and Joshua
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the commentaries on the Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Joshua of the Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus (b. c. 780, d. 856). It was one of several biblical commentaries that the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Add MS 38817

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Title:
Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Tabernaculo (On the Tabernacle) and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian, followed by a letter about his de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 54229

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Title:
Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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