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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Place Northwestern France Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 11943

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Add MS 11943
Title:
Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 33241

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Add MS 33241
Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Arundel MS 375

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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

4. Burney MS 317

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Burney MS 317
Title:
Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the Homiliae in Ezecheliem (Homilies on Ezekiel), in two books, written by Pope Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), followed by an excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) (ff. 168v-169v). It has been copied in the last quarter of the 11th century. The par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174

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Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174
Title:
Gospel of St John; A charter of Duke William II of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 174r: a fragment from a Gospel of St John copied in the middle of the 10th century. f. 174v: a charter of William II, duke of Normandy (b. 1035, d. 1087), later King William I of England (r. 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, dated between 1063 and 1066 and copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century-2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

6. Harley MS 203

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Harley MS 203
Title:
Innocent III, De Officio Missae; Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Scope & Content:
Composite volume consisting of two booklets (ff. 1–28, 29–98). ff. 1r–26r: Innocent III, De Officio Missae (The Office of the Mass). ff. 26r–28v: Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer, ‘Credo in deum patrem omnipotentem'. ff. 29r–52v: Anselm of Canterbury, De Incarnatione Verbi ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 491

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 491
Title:
William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–2v: Two leaves from a Mass lectionary, probably written in Lotharingia, mid-11th-century (see Gneuss, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (2003)). ff. 3r–46v: William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes). ff. 47r–48v: Two leaves from a mortuary roll for Turgot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 1918

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1918
Title:
Homiliary with lectiones
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Bede, Homiliae in Evangelia, Homilia in Vigilia Paschalis, beginning: 'In Sancto Sabbato secundum Mattheum. Que luscecit in primam (sic) sabbati [...] Omelia Venerabilis Bede presbiteri, de eadem lectione. Vigilias nobis hujus sacratissime noctis', ending: 'qui vivit et reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

9. Harley MS 1924

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1924
Title:
Bede, Life of Cuthbert; Miracles of St Cuthbert
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti (Life of St Cuthbert), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-2v) and capitula (ff. 2v-3v), ending at chapter 42: 'et involutum novo amictu corpus levique in theca reconditum supra pavimentum sanctuarii composuerunt' (f. 48v). Chapters 41 and 44-46 are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2823

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2823
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420), Prefatio Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Preface of the Epistle of St Jerome to Pope Damasus). f. 2v: St Jerome, Epistule ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus). ff. 2v-4r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (The Prologue of St Jerome'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:
1 volume

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