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Contents: ff. 1r–7r: Eusebian canon tables ff. 7v–8r: ‘Exultet’, added in a later hand (an English Caroline minuscule of the end of the 11th century). Hartzell, Catalogue (2006), no. 169 identifies it as the ‘Norman’ version of the melody, written in Anglo-Norman neumes. Omits section 7. ff. ...
This exceptionally large codex is the first of two volumes of the only surviving Bible from late Anglo-Saxon England and the second of only two largely complete, surviving Bibles from England before 1066 (the other being the Codex Amiatinus, now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino...
The manuscript includes a Psalter with three Canticles, known as the Psalter of Henry VIII. The text is preceded by the dedicatory letter by Jean Mallard (ff. 1v-2v), who wrote and probably illuminated the manuscript, incipit: 'Regium istud Davidis'. Mallard's other works include Royal MS 7 D XI...
This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 ...
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
ff. 1r-51v: Apocalypse (Revelation); the upper half of each folio contains a miniature and beneath is the accompanying text in Latin, followed by the parallel commentary in Anglo-Norman French verse. Decoration: 102 half-page miniatures in drawings tinted with colours and silver, appearing on...
Fragment of a Missal; collection of St Jerome's and Pseudo-Jerome's works on music and a homily of Origen; fragment of Felix's Vita Guthlaci
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This manuscript contains three parts: ff. 1*-2*: a fragment of a late ninth- or early tenth-century Continental Missal. For technical reasons, these folios are labelled flyleaf 1c and flyleaf 2 in the viewer to enable them to display in the correct order; ff. 1r-106v: a mid-10th century coll...
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli
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This manuscript consists of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160)'s Gloss on the Pauline Epistles or Magna glossatura. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theolo...
Augustine, Enchiridion; Autpert Ambrose, Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum; John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub Figura Persecutionis; Lectiones de Miraculis Sancti Lethardi Episcopi; Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
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This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. i recto-48v [Part 1]; ff. 49r-56v [Part 2]; 57r-64v [Part 3]; and 65r-133v [Part 4]) that were produced between the 4th quarter of the 11th century and the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (see 'Provenance' for the dating of the separate parts). ...
