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

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 821
Title:: A collection of astrological, brontomantic, onomantic and oneiromantic treatises; astronomic and computistic texts; herbal remedies, charms and magical amulets.
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century scientific manuscript from Southern France contains a large number of prognostic treatises that are based on the principles of astrology, brontomancy (divination by thunder), onomancy (divination by names), and oneiromancy (dream divination), alongside computistical and astrono...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 857
Title:: Roman Gradual
Scope & Content:: This Roman Gradual was written in the 11th or 12th century in Northern France. It may have been written for a church in Noyon, since it contains a hymn for St Eligius (Eloy), bishop of Noyon-Tournai (f. 56v). Contents: ff. 1r-56v: A Roman Gradual (with the Temporale and Sanctorale combined) wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 873
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Prologus quattuor evangeliorum. The Prologue of St Jerome's commentary on St Matthew. ff. 4r-6r: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula Hieronymi ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), preceded by a preface (ff. 4r-v). ff. 6r-8v: The preface of the Gospel of St Matthew...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2204
Title:: Bede the Venerable, In Lucae Evangelium Expositio
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript originates from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary in Reading. It contains the commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian. This is one of the more than a hundred manuscripts that survi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2627
Title:: Claudianus Claudius, Carmina Majora, Carmina Minora, De Raptu Proserpine
Scope & Content:: This is a 12th-century collection of works by the Alexandrian poet Claudianus Claudius (d. after 404), including De Raptu Proserpinae (The Rape of Proserpine), De Bello Gildonico (On the Gildonic War), and his poems on the marriage of the Emperor Honorius, for whom he was a court poet, and the c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2782
Title:: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the Book of Isaiah by Haimo (or Haymo) of Auxerre (d. 853). Haimo was one of the key figures in the revival of learning in the Carolingian period. Contents: ff. 1-124v: Haimo of Auxerre, Super Isaiam (Commentary on Isaiah). [ff. 125r-125v are blank]. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2818
Title:: Benedict of Peterborough, Passio et Miracula Sancti Thome Cantuariensis (imperfect); John of Salisbury, Passio Sancti Thome
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consist of two parts bound together immediately after their execution at Pontigny. It was likely intended for the office of St Thomas, which was celebrated at Pontigny from 1174. The order of the two text were revised probably in the early modern period. The Passion of St Thoma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2831
Title:: Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2832
Title:: Collection of Canon Laws, Lex Salica; Lex Ripuaria; Capitulare Legibus Additum; Capitulare Missorum; Recapitulatio Solidorum; Capitulare Missorum Specialia; Capitulare Haristallense; Capitula Legi Addita; Capitula Legibus Addenda
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of a collection of canon laws of the Merovingian and Carolingian period. It was produced in Northern France at the very end of the 9th century. This volume was originally bound together with Paris, BnF lat. MS 4633 and Egerton MS 269. It has been divided in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2900
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Viaticum; various medical tracts
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the Viaticum (Provision for a Journey) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1020- d. 1098/9). This is a Latin adaptation of a standard medical manual in Arabic, entitled Kitab Zad al-musafir wa-qut al-hadir (Provision for the Traveller and the Nourishment of the Settled), by Ib...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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