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Place St Albans, England Digitised Content Yes (available) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Cotton MS Julius D III

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Cotton MS Julius D III
Title:
Cartulary of St Albans Abbey; Ralph of Dunstable, Vita Sancti Albani; Golliardic stanzas; Versus de Motu et Pena Peccandi; Versus de Mensibus Anni; Versus de Virtutibus Imitandis et Earum Distinctionibus; Vita Beati Thome Martiris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis; Hildebert of Lavardin, Biblical Epigrams; Alain de Lille, Anticlaudianus (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts that were produced at different periods of time but potentially at the same location. The first part (ff. 1-124) contains the cartulary of the Sacrist of the Benedictine abbey of St Albans that was written after 1393 and contains additions to the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-16th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Egerton MS 654

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Egerton MS 654
Title:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae; Pseudo-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; Epitaphium Senecae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Epistles) of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. 4 BC, d. 65). It also includes the apocryphal Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam (Seneca's Epistles to St Paul and the Epistles of St Paul to Seneca), ttributed to Seneca, as well as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Egerton MS 3721

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3721
Title:
Kalendar; St Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana (excerpts); St Augustine, De Trinitate;De Duodecim Lapidibus (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-8v; ff. 9-86) that were produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Alban at St Albans, and bound together at an early date (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans (1982), p. 92). The scribe of ff. 1-8 copied the St Albans Psalter (Hildesheim, Dombibli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 865

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 865
Title:
Ambrose, De Mysteriis and De Sacramentis;Jerome, Contra Jovinianum; and other theological works
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. [ii] verso: A table of contents. ff. 1r-4v: Ambrose (b. c. 339, d. 397), De Mysteriis (On Mysteries), beginning imperfectly due to the lack of the opening folio. ff. 4v-16v: Ambrose, De Sacramentis (On the Sacraments). ff. 16v-18v: Pseudo-Eusebius of Emesa (Eusebius Gallicanus),...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 2624

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Harley MS 2624
Title:
Cicero, De inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript preserves two important classical works of rhetoric: Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)'s handbook for orators known as De Inventione (On Invention) and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius). The latter was composed in the early 1st century BC and attributed, un...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Royal MS 13 D VI

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Royal MS 13 D VI
Title:
Excerpt from St Jerome, De viris illustribus; Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates iudaicae (books 1-14)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first volume of a two volume-set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. c. 98)'s Antiquitates Iudicae (Antiquities of the Jews). It is preceded by an excerpt on Flavius Josephus from St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420)'s De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men). The second volu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Royal MS 13 D VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 D VII
Title:
Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates Iudicae; Josephus Flavius, De Bello Iudaico
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript is the second volume of a two volume-set containing Josephus Flavius's Antiquitates Iudicae. The first volume is Royal MS 13 D VI and contains books 1-14 of the work written by Josephus. This manuscript consists of the last books, 15-20, and includes Josephus's De Bell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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