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1. Royal MS 1 C IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 C IX
Title:
Glossed Wycliffite Bible, in the later version (from Genesis to Job)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Genesis to Job, in the later version of the Middle English translation produced by the followers of John Wycliffe (b. c. 1320s, d. 1384). Accompanying marginal glosses appear throughout the book, written in the same hand as the main text. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Royal MS 2 E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 E XIII
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 2 E XIV. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue of Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning: 'Incipit Breviarium Sancti Hieronimi praesbiteri in psalterio. Proxime cum Origenis psalterium, quod encheridion ille vocab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

3. Royal MS 2 E XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 E XIV
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is bound with Royal 2 MS E XIII. Contents: ff. 1r-136r: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning at the end of Psalms 50 'Vel multi habent cor contricum' to Psalm 100. Decoration: Small initials in red, some with penwork decoration, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

4. Royal MS 4 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 4 D II
Title:
Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1225
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Royal MS 6 B VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 B VIII
Title:
Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Royal MS 6 C I

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 C I
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1
Title:
Fragment of a writ
Scope & Content:
This folio contains a fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, dated 1540. It is bound upside down in the present volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

8. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 2r-81v
Title:
Guitmund of Aversa, De Corpore et Sanguine Christi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi (About the Body and the Blood of Christ), beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam' and ending, imperfect, 'in hoc mundo carnalis conversatio'. Decoration: large initial in red with penwork decoration (f. 2r). Ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

9. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:
Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

10. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 163r-165v
Title:
Early modern copy of Aldhelm's letter to Heahfrith (Ehfrid) (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff 163r-165v : Aldhelm, Letter to Ehfrid, with corrections in the hand of Patrick Young in the 17th century. Decoration: No decoration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

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