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1. Royal Appendix MS 56

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Royal Appendix MS 56
Title:
16th century compositions for organ, by anonymous authors
Scope & Content:
Organ pieces, written on double staves of 6 or 7 lines each, apparently in England. Anonymous. 1. 'Felix namque.' f. 1b. 2. 'Non expecto.' f. 6b. 3. 'Beata viscera.' f. 7. 4-6. Three pieces without titles. ff. 12b, 13b, 14b. 7. 'Kirie,' 'Christe,' and 'Miserere'; probably from a Mass. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

2. Royal Appendix MS 58

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Royal Appendix MS 58
Title:
Collection of English vocal compositions, predominantly by anonymous authors.
Scope & Content:
Vocal compositions: one part only (except in no. 27), chiefly tenor. Unless the contrary is stated, they are anonymous. 1. 'A[h], the syghes that come fro my hert.' By W. Cornish. f. 1. 2. 'Though that she cannot Redresse.' f. 3b. 3. 'Colle to me the Rysshes greene.' f. 4. 4. 'Down bery down': a...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (60 folios)

3. Royal MS 1 A XIV

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Royal MS 1 A XIV
Title:
Gospels (the 'Wessex Gospels')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the four Gospels in English, in the Anglo-Saxon or Wessex version, with flyleaves from a Latin missal of the 13th century. The Gospels are arranged as follows: Mark (ff. 3r-32r); Matthew (ff. 33r-82r); Luke (ff. 83r-133v); John (ff. 135r-174v) and were probably copied se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1150-1200
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Royal MS 1 A XVIII

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Royal MS 1 A XVIII
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-11v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 12r-66r: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by a preface (ff. 12r-13r). ff. 66r-99r: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by a preface (ff. 66r-67r) and capitula (ff. 67r-68r). ff. 99v-159v: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by capitula (ff. 99...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Royal MS 1 B XI

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Royal MS 1 B XI
Title:
The Four Gospels; Records of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning imperfectly: 'addita sunt. Igitur hec presens prefaciuncula'. ff. 2v-5r: St Jerome, Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum (Preface to St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Royal MS 1 D III

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Royal MS 1 D III
Title:
Gospels, with canon tables and the Exultet
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–7r: Eusebian canon tables ff. 7v–8r: ‘Exultet’, added in a later hand (an English Caroline minuscule of the end of the 11th century). Hartzell, Catalogue (2006), no. 169 identifies it as the ‘Norman’ version of the melody, written in Anglo-Norman neumes. Omits section 7. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Royal MS 1 E VII

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Royal MS 1 E VII
Title:
Bible (1st of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:
This exceptionally large codex is the first of two volumes of the only surviving Bible from late Anglo-Saxon England and the second of only two largely complete, surviving Bibles from England before 1066 (the other being the Codex Amiatinus, now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
late 10th century-16th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

8. Royal MS 2 A XVI

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Royal MS 2 A XVI
Title:
Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a Psalter with three Canticles, known as the Psalter of Henry VIII. The text is preceded by the dedicatory letter by Jean Mallard (ff. 1v-2v), who wrote and probably illuminated the manuscript, incipit: 'Regium istud Davidis'. Mallard's other works include Royal MS 7 D XI...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1540-1541
Extent:

176 folios.

9. Royal MS 2 A XX

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Royal MS 2 A XX
Title:
Royal Prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

10. Royal MS 2 B V

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Royal MS 2 B V
Title:
The Royal Psalter
Scope & Content:
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

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