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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 146
Title:: The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the text of a set of additions to the rules compiled for the sisters of the Brigittine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary, and St Bridget of Syon, founded by King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) in 1415. Other surviving versions of the Additions to the Rule include: London, Guildhall...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 153
Title:: Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England. Contents: ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire. ff. 5r-8r: Dorset. ff. 8v-15v: Somerset. ff. 16r-23r: Devon. ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall. ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex. ff. 27v-31v: Hertfor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 155
Title:: Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 157
Title:: The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is an early example of a Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary attached (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), p. 201 (no. 2). p. 201). The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but probably has a connection with Oxford since its Calendar contains three feasts of St Fri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 166
Title:: Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts
Scope & Content:: This is a composite medical manuscript made up of two separate sections (ff. 3r-13v and ff. 14r-90) both from the 9th century, bound together at an unknown date. The first section (ff. 3r-13v) contains De Medicamentis (About Remedies) by Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century); the second section ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 173
Title:: Bruno of Segni, De Sacramentis Ecclesiae; collections of patristic and canonical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of excerpts from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 22r-32r: A collection of excerpts about the baptism of saints from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 32r-51r: A collection of excerpts about the body and blood of Christ and the othe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 213
Title:: A homiletic and theological miscellany, including excerpts from the works of St Gregory the Great, St Augustine, St Jerome, Caesarius of Arles, Fortunatianus of Aquileia and others.
Scope & Content:: This early 9th-century manuscript is a theological florilegium (or collection of extracts and citations) of moral, exegetical and catechetical material taken from various books of the Bible and the writings of several Church Fathers. The separate entries tend to consist of excerpts from various ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 217
Title:: St Cyprian, Epistulae and other works; Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion and Adversus Judaeos;Hrabanus Maurus, De Cena Cypriani
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves a large number of St Cyprian (b. c. 200 d. c. 258)'s Epistulae (Letters) and other works, as well as two anonymous tracts associated with Cyprian's name, the 3rd-century sermon De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion (On the Two Mountains of Sinai and Sion) and Adversus Judaeos (Ag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 218
Title:: Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii; Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (excerpt); Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de Disciplina Christiana
Scope & Content:: This is one of the dozen identified manuscripts from the Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Guisborough in North Yorkshire. It includes the Speculum Gregorii (Mirror of St Gregory) by Adalbert of Metz (fl. late 10th century). The Speculum Gregorii was one of the most popular florilegia (collection...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230
Title:: Philippe de Thaon, Comput; De Singulis Mensibus; Psalter with gloss and prologue in Anglo-Norman; List of perilous days; Instructions for masses; List of plant names; Roman d'Alexandre (fragment)
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1-6; ff. 7-161; ff. 162-180; ff. 181-194) that were produced in England during the 12th and 13th centuries. The manuscript contains the single surviving copy of an Anglo-Norman interlinear translation of the Gallican version of the Psalter. The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 12th century-3rd quarter 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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