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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 B XI
Title:: The Four Gospels; Records of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning imperfectly: 'addita sunt. Igitur hec presens prefaciuncula'. ff. 2v-5r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (Preface to St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 D III
Title:: Gospels, with canon tables and the Exultet
Scope & Content:: 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. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 11th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VII
Title:: Bible (1st of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 10th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 A XVI
Title:: Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1540-1541
Extent:: 176 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 A XX
Title:: Royal Prayerbook
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to 12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B V
Title:: The Royal Psalter
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: mid-10th century-mid-11th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 D XIII
Title:: Apocalypse in Latin and Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 A XIV
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to middle of 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 D II
Title:: Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1225
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 E IX
Title:: Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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