Project / Collection: England and France 700-1200 Project / Material Type: Archives and Manuscripts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

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 The script and initials, according to Michael Gullick (unpublished notes), s...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

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 241
Title:: Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was most likely produced in the 10th or early 11th century (ex info. Michael Gullick; but dated to the 2nd quarter of the 9th century by Bischoff, Katalog, II (2004), no. 2414). It contains a collection of three of the works that are commonly referred to by the title De Trinitate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 348, ff 1r-101v
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione (On Invention). ff. 51v-101v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (The Rhetoric to Herennius). Decoration: Six large decorated initials in brown ink with yellow and red washes, two with zoomorphic features of an animal head, or a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A part of Arundel MS 348

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 348, ff 102r-179v
Title:: Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 102r-179v: Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione (On Invention), ending imperfect (see the catchword on f. 179v). Decoration: Marginal drawings including faces, hands, busts, and animals (e.g., ff. 109v, 110v, 123v). Some of these drawings are for catchwords...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A part of Arundel MS 348

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 348, ff 180r-276v
Title:: Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 180r-276v: Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De interpretatione (Perihermeneias) (On Interpretation). Decoration: Red and brown or red simple initials. Diagrams with red and some with line-fillers.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Arundel MS 348

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 377
Title:: Miscellaneous Astrological texts; Calendar of Saints; Hermann of Reichenau, De Mensura Astrolabii et Ejus Utilitate, cum Tabulis; Ahmad Ibn Muhammed al-Farghānī, Rudamenta Astronomica; Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, De Tabulis Planetarum; Adelard of Bath, Liber Astrolabi; Roger of Hereford, Astrological Tables; Daniel of Morley, De Naturis Superiorum et Inferiorum; William of Conches, Dragmaticon Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of astrological treatises, accompanied by tables and diagrams. ff. 3r-5v: A Calendar of Saints of Ely Cathedral Priory. f. 6r: An anonymous computus text. ff. 6v-15v: Astrological tracts and tables concerning the movement of the sun and the moon, beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 490
Title:: Decretum Gratiani; Collectio Eberbacensis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was written at the very end of the 12th century in Northern France, more likely in Sens than in Paris (see Stirnemann, 'En quête de Sens' (2007), p. 305). The conciliar canons of the third Council of Lateran (1179) provide the terminus a quo for the manuscript. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 17
Title:: Glossed Proverbs, and Glossed Ecclesiastes with prologues
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was most likely written around the mid-12th century in France. It contains the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A prologue to the Book of Proverbs (glossed). ff. 22r-74r: The Book of Proverbs (glossed)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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