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This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica; Sermons; Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia; Excerpts from the canonical collection: 'Collection Hibernensis'; De remediis peccatorum; A fragment of the apocryphal Book of Enoch; De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum; Gospel of Nicodemus (incomplete).
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Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica: '[Can]on in ebreica, regula in greca, [ae]quitas [in lati]na'. ff. 9r-15v: Sermons: 'De reddendis decimis et primitivis que dominus precepit. Primus homo qui dedit primam et primitivam Domino suo pro suo peccato...-... et de omnibus insidis...
This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in t...
Commentaries on the Song of Salomon and a theological treatise; Aldhem's letter to Heahfrid, Epistola ad Heahfridum with glosses; Aldhem, De laudibus Virginitatis with glosses.
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This manuscript contains: ff. 1r-4v: flyleaves taken from a 13th century manuscript, two of them are commentaries on the Song of Salomon and the other are from a theological treatise. Note that ff. 1 and 4 are bounded upside down. ff. 5r-9r: Aldhem's letter to Heahfrid, Epistola ad Heahfridu...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 10th century- 1st half of 11th century
This manuscript contains the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni (Life of St Gregory the Great) by John the Deacon of Rome (b. c. 825; d. 880). Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A preface for the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni, beginning: 'Incipit Vita Gregorii papae urbis Romae. Beatissimo ac felicissimo domino Iohann...
St Ambrose, De Mysteriis; St Ambrose, De Sacramentis; St Ivo of Chartres, De ecclesiasticis sacramentis; St Bruno of Segni, De sacramentis ecclesiae; St Ivo of Chartres, Epistulae
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This manuscript was written by two scribes (ff. 1-22 and ff. 23-126), according to Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community' (1980), p. 314. The second hand (Rochester scribe 4) also wrote Royal MS 5 B IV and Royal MS 15 A XXII, according to Waller. This manuscript consists of two texts...
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
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This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r). Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) ...
Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
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This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
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This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a...
Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
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This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more...
