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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 1r-66v
Title:: Old Testament Cycle
Scope & Content:: Cycle of 223 tinted drawings, mostly two per page, illustrating Old Testament scenes from the Fall of Lucifer and the Creation to the Death of Solomon, with accompanying Anglo-Norman explanatory verses. Beginning, 'Coment lucifer chayit de ciel e devient diable e grant multitudo des angeles oues...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 66 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 67r-70v
Title:: Full-page miniatures
Scope & Content:: Four full-page miniatures, some with Anglo-Norman captions and explanatory text. Each prophet (ff. 69v-70r) carries a scroll inscribed with verses (not always correctly assigned); each Apostle (ff. 69v-70r) carries a scroll inscribed with sections of the Creed. Decoration: f. 67v: Miniature of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 71r-83v
Title:: Calendar
Scope & Content:: Calendar, with each month occupying two pages, and accompanying miniatures of the signs of the Zodiac and labours of the month. Notable saints in the calendar include: 19 January: St Wulfstan. 2 March: St Cedda. 18 March: Edward the Confessor. 20 March: St Cuthbert. 3 April: St Richard. 19...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 13 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 84r-280r
Title:: Psalter
Scope & Content:: Psalter, illustrated with miniatures of the Life of Christ, and bas-de-page scenes with images from the bestiary, legends of saints, and other sources (including hunting scenes). Descriptions: f. 84r: Inscription by Henry Manners, 2nd earl of Rutland (1526 - 1563), courtier and soldier, arrest...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 196 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 280v-302r
Title:: Canticles, with scenes from the Passion
Scope & Content:: Canticles, with scenes from the Passion of Christ and other miniatures. Decoration: f. 280v: Miniature of four scenes of the Resurrection in quatrefoils, with: (top left) Christ lying in the uncovered sepulchre, with soldiers apparently repulsing a disciple (perhaps Joseph of Arimathaea); (top...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 22 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 302v-318v
Title:: Litany, with miniatures of saints and scenes from the Bible
Scope & Content:: Litany, with miniatures of saints, scenes from the Bible, and bas-de-page scenes. Decoration: f. 302v: Miniature of the Last Judgement, with an historiated initial 'R' of a group of bishops, and a bas-de-page scene of Paul giving a letter to a messenger. f. 303r: Two-register miniature of P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1310-1320
Extent:: 17 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 319r-319v
Title:: Later inscription by customs officer
Scope & Content:: Inscription by Customs Officer Baldwin Smith, who seized the manuscript in the course of his duties in October 1553 and presented it to Queen Mary Tudor: inscribed 'hunc librum nautis ad exteros transvehendum datu[m]: / spectatus et honestus vir Baldwinus Smithus Londini / a portoriis et vectigal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1553
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 2r-3v
Title:: Fragments of canon tables
Scope & Content:: This item consists of fragments of canon tables, apparently taken from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, possibly made in Northumbria. The Greek letter 'pi' appears in a colophon. Due to the size of the manuscript fragments, it is possible that they come from the same volume as Cambridge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 7th or 1st quarter of 8th century
Extent:: 2 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v
Title:: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Scope & Content:: This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 214 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 219r-231v
Title:: Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:: This item contains extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche (beginning 'Augustinus quoque sanctus in sermonibus de sabbato Pasche refert et hec'), as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus and fragments of Cassiodorus Senator's Expositio Psalmorum. There are lar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:: 12 folios, part of a parchment codex

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