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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Digitised Content Yes (unavailable) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 15350/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 15350/1
Title:
Medieval binding
Scope & Content:
Former covers of Add MS 15350, removed in 1961, now kept separately. They consist of Romanesque pink-dyed leather over wooden covers, blind-tooled, with geometric, zoomorphic and foliate decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Former covers of Add MS 15350

2. Add MS 23934

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 23934
Title:
Glossed Gospel of St John
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Park near Louvain. It contains the Gospel of St John with Glossa Ordinaria. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: A prologue with glosses, beginning ‘Hic est Johannes evangelista unus ex discipulis dei qui virgo electus’. ff. 3r-95r: The Gospel of John...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 1–82

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 1–82
Title:
Philippe de Thaon, Comput; Bestiarius
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), Comput (Anglo Norman) [added Latin title ‘lib[er] de creaturis’, in a 15th-century script]. ff. 40v-41r: Two short Latin texts on the Computus (beginning ‘In anno quo ciclus’ and ‘Quicumque adventum domini celebrare desiderat’). ff. 41r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A V

4. Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A V, ff 83–118
Title:
Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 83r-118v: Elias of Evesham, Quadrilogus de Vita Sancti Thome Cantuariensis. This part of the manuscript contains a later addition: f. 118v: A list of readings for liturgical feasts (‘oblaciones’) with folio numbers, added in a 13th-century script. Decoration: Medium and smal...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A V

5. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 1-112

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 1-112
Title:
Lanfranc of Canterbury, Epistolae; Epitaph for Lanfranc; A recipe for making red and blue dye; Anselm of Canterbury, Epistolae (imperfect at the end)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-39v: Lanfranc of Canterbury (b. 1005 , d. 1089), Epistolae (Letters). f. 40r: Epitaph for Lanfranc, beginning: ‘hic tumulus claudit’. f. 40v: A recipe for making red and blue dye. ff. 41r-112v: Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033, d. 1109), Epistolae (imperfect at the end). Decoration: Nu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

6. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 113-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 113-131
Title:
Henry of Saltrey, Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii; Alexander of Canterbury, Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselmi; excerpts from William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, Agobard of Lyons, De Picturis et Imaginibus and Iunianus Iustinus, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus’ lost Historiae Philippicae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 113r-120r: Henry of Saltrey (fl. c. 1184), Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii (Treatise on Saint Patrick's Purgatory), beginning: ‘Patri suo in Christo praeoptato H, abbati de Sartis’. ff. 120r-122v: Alexander of Canterbury (fl. 1109), Liber ex Dictis Beati Anselm (On the Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

7. Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 132-157

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Nero A VII, ff 132-157
Title:
Córus bretha neimhedh
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-157v: Córus bretha neimhedh (Judgments of Privileged Classes’) (imperfect), written by the scribe Matha O Luinín. Decoration: Several large initials with interlace and zoomorphic decoration in black and red ink. Numerous small initials in black with red highlighting.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish, Old
Date Range:
1571
Extent:

A part of Cotton MS Nero A VII

8. Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4951, ff 1-118
Title:
John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-118v: John Halgren of Abbeville, Sermones dominicales, beginning ‘Dominicales sermones iohannis de abbatis villa · episcopi Sabinensis’. Decoration: 1 large red initial with blue penwork decoration (f. 1r). Small initials in red or brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Harley MS 4951

9. Harley MS 4951, ff 119-301

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4951, ff 119-301
Title:
Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 120r-301v: Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse with neumes, and including a tonary on ff. 295v-301v, beginning ‘Autentus protus ad sonales . Tonum .I.’. This part contains a number of later (11th- and 12th-century) additions: f. 119r: A latin text in the upper margin, faded ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Harley MS 4951

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