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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, f 2
Title:: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
Scope & Content:: Contents: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Old
Date Range:: 950-1025
Extent:: 1 folio, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, f 3
Title:: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1025-1050
Extent:: 1 folio, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, ff 4-43
Title:: A collection of single folios from manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century; f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v); f. 6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1200-1500
Extent:: 40 parchment folios, part of a codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, ff 44-61
Title:: Facsimiles of medieval manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: Facsimiles of legal, and liturgical manuscripts and engravings, including engravings of King David from Royal MS 15 D iii, f. 268r (f. 45), the Evangelist portraits from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero MS D IV: St Mark, f. 93v, St Luke, f. 137v, St John, f. 209v, St Matthew, f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 18 paper folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34874
Title:
Scope & Content:: GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. I. Six autobiographical sketches by Edward Gibbon, all holograph, being the materials from which Lord Sheffield arranged the "Memoirs" as published in the Miscellaneous Works (quarto ed., 1796, vol. i., octavo ed., with further extracts, 1814, vol. i.). The six sketches are m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1737-1807
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35021
Title:: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2.
Scope & Content:: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2. 21 of the 24 preludes and fugues of the second book of the ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’, BWV 870-872, 875-880, 882-893. All the music is in the hand of the composer, with the exception of the preludes and fugues in C minor, D mino...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: German
Date Range:: [1739-1742]
Extent:: 22 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35110
Title:: Vita Sancti Augustini; Possidius, Vita Sancti Augustini; Vita Sancti Eadfridi; Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti; Adomnán, Vita Sancti Columbe
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine). ff. 9v-28r: Possidius (fl. 5th century), Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine). ff. 28r-29v: A list of St Augustine's works. ff. 30r-30v: Historia translationis corporis Sancti Augustini (History of the translation of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35283
Title:: Psalter in Latin and Anglo-Norman
Scope & Content:: A bilingual Psalter, with canticles and liturgical texts; the Latin text is in the left column with a parallel Anglo-Norman French text in the right column; the translation is related to the Anglo-Norman version in the 'Oxford' Psalter: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 320 (see Short and others, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35294
Title:: Wardrobe account of Eleanor of Castile
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the wardrobe account, or Liber Garderobe, of Eleanor of Castile, (b. c. 1240, d. 1290), Queen consort to King Edward I (r. 1272-1307). The account was compiled by Queen Eleanor's treasurer, John of Berewyk (fl. 1279-1312), and records a set of her receipts and expenses...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: [29 Sep 1289-30 Dec 1290]
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35321
Title:: Boccaccio, Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes
Scope & Content:: Contents: Boccaccio, Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes, translated into French by Laurent de Premierfait, beginning with the second prologue, 'Selon rayson et bonnes meurs', omitting the dedication to the Duc de Berry and verses to Boccaccio. f. 1r-2r: Prologue; ff. 2r-33v: Book 1, preceded...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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