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Place Canterbury, England Digitised Content Yes (unavailable) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 10109

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Add MS 10109
Title:
Account book of payments made by James Nedam, 1542–1543
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–213v: Account book of the payments made by James Nedam, Surveyor General of the Works to King Henry VIII, in the years 1542–1543. It includes payments for the following: ff. 2r–9v: the new office for the King’s Surveyors in the Fish Yard; ff. 10r–49r: the new office for the King’s Surve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1542-1543
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 50483K

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Add MS 50483K
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This leaf once belonged to one of the earliest known copies of the prose version of De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of Sherborne. This fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 leaf

3. Add MS 71687

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Add MS 71687
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose), with added glosses in Old English
Scope & Content:
This bifolium once belonged to one of the earliest known surviving copies of the prose version of the De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

4. Arundel MS 16

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Arundel MS 16
Title:
Osbern of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Dunstani
Scope & Content:
Osbern, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury, composed this version of the Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan) between c.1089 and c.1093. This is thought to be the earliest of some twenty manuscripts of the text, and it may have been the original Christ Church copy (Alexander, Romanesque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1090-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55

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Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55
Title:
Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Computistical tables; a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Bede, De die iudicii; a Latin colophon of three hexameters, a recipe in Old English and a list of books.
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r: at the top of the leaf the four disciplines of the quadrivium are enunciated in Latin with a translation in Old English above each one. They are followed by the enumeration of the four main sciences presented in Latin and in Old English in the same way. f. 2r: Bede the Vener...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I

6. Cotton MS Otho A VIII

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Cotton MS Otho A VIII
Title:
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Uita sancte Mildrethe and Translatio sancte Mildrethe; Old English Life of St Machutus
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho A VIII was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House Fire of 1731, leaving only 34 surviving leaves, which were subsequently bound out of their original order. An additional leaf from the manuscript (containing part of the Old English Life of St Machutus) is now bound separately as Co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Harley MS 641

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Harley MS 641
Title:
Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano; Flores historiarum, attributed to John Bever; Martin of Troppau, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum; Richard de Ledrede, 'Account of the proceedings against Lady Alice Kyteler'
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two different parts (ff. 1-115 and ff. 118-206) that were bound together for Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b. 1602, d. 1650) in 1645. The first part of the manuscript (ff. 1-115) was written between the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 14th century, and contains De bello ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Stowe MS 146

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 146
Title:
Royal orders and warrants, 1512-1515
Scope & Content:
Collection of original orders and warrants, chiefly by King Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey, the King’s Almoner. Dating from between 1512 and 1515. Principally addressed to John Daunce, Treasurer for War. Concerning payments to English and foreign merchants for victualling the army in Spain, the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1512-1515
Extent:
1 volume