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1. Arundel MS 153

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

2. Arundel MS 375

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 375
Title:
Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript consists of the Liber Historie Francorum (the History of the Franks) in its Austrasian reworking (Austrasia was a Merovingian kingdom situated in the North-East of France), followed by the anonymous Excidium Troiae (The Destruction of Troy) and a part of the Annales Me...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Arundel MS 348

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 348
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione; Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript made up of three originally separate parts (ff. 1-101v; 102r-179v; 180r-276v): Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione (On Invention). ff. 51v-101v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (The Rhetoric to Herennius). ff. 102r-179v: Thierry of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 125

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 125
Title:
Books of Job and Ezra with St Jerome's prologues
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-5r: St Jerome's prologue to the Book of Job, beginning: 'Incipit praefatio Hieronimi. Cogor per singulos scripturae divinae libros'; followed by the capitula of the book of Job (ff. 3v-5r). ff. 5v-51r: The Book of Job, beginning: 'Incipit Liber beati Iob, vir erat in terra hus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Arundel MS 94

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 94
Title:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). The other volume has not survived, but would have contained books 1-14 of Josephus’s work. This manuscript contains the last books, 15-20, and include...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Arundel MS 235

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 235
Title:
Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici
Scope & Content:
This late 11th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Psalms by the theologian Hugh of Langres (d. 1050), Bishop of Langres, and an allegorical interpretation of the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The script and initials, according to Michael Gullick (unpublished notes), s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Arundel MS 230

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

8. Arundel MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 10
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Arundel MS 146

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

10. Arundel MS 173

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

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