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11. Add MS 27920

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 27920
Title:
A noted Breviary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

12. Add MS 32058, ff 5-8

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 32058, ff 5-8
Title:
Four leaves from a Bible in Latin with historiated initials
Scope & Content:
Four leaves from a Bible in Latin: f. 5r-v: A leaf from St Jerome's preface to the book of Kings, begins 'Viginti duas esse litteras ap[u]d hebreos', with a historiated initial, 'V' of a scholar with a halo teaching two figures from a book; the partial border contains a cleric holding a book re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 32058

13. Arundel MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 10
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

14. Arundel MS 348, ff 102r-179v

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

15. Burney MS 249

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 249
Title:
L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder), Controversiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-126v: L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder) (b. 54 BC, d. c. 39 AD), Controversiae (Disputes), with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, beginning: 'Exigitis rem magis iocumdam'. [ff. 127r-129v are blank]. Decoration: 37 large and medium calligraphic initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

16. Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vitellius C III, ff 86–138
Title:
Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i–ii
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 86-138: Macrobius, Saturnalia, books i-ii. Decoration: Initials in red throughout. Display capitals in red (f. 86r). Marginal drawing of heads (ff. 93v, 100v, 106v, 123v). Manicula (ff. 105v, 116v, 122v).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C III

17. Egerton MS 2832

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

18. Harley MS 549

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 549
Title:
Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

19. Harley MS 628

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 628
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscripts contains a Psalter with Glossa Ordinaria. Its style of decoration (Channel style) indicates that it was produced in England or France. Contents: ff. 1v-227r: The Book of Psalms with Glossa Ordinaria. ff. 227r-238r: Canticles of Isaiah, Hezekiah, Anna, Moses (E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

20. Harley MS 1915

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1915
Title:
The Eusebian canon tables; Zacharias of Besançon, De Concordia Evangelistarum; Bede, Expositio Super Acta Apostolorum; Bede, Retractatio in Actus Apostolorum; Victorinus of Pettau, Commentarius in Apocalypsim; Bede, Nomina Regionum atque Locorum de Actibus Apostolorum; Commemoratorium de Apocalypsi Iohannis Apostoli
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is closely related to the readings of the New Testament as it includes a concordance on the four Gospels written by Zacharias of Besancon (d. 1157). It is followed by Bede's commentary on the Acts of Apostle, including his retractatio, a treatise in which he underlined his own mi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

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