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1. Add MS 11849

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Add MS 11849
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a 9th-century Gospel book produced perhaps in Tours in the Franco-Saxon style. It was copied by the same scribe who wrote Paris, BnF, MS lat. 267 from the school of Tours (see Rand, 'Franco-Saxon Ornamentation in a Book of Tours' (1929), 214-215). The manuscript incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 47678

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Add MS 47678
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Egerton MS 609

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 609
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Egerton MS 2831

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2831
Title:
Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 2790

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2790
Title:
The Four Gospels ('The Gospels of St Cyriacus of Nevers', or 'The Gedeon Gospels of Nevers')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Letter to Pope Damasus I). ff. 5r-5v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistle to Pope Damasus I, beginning: 'Sciendum tamen nequis ignarum'. ff. 5v-8v: Prologus ex commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (St Jerome's prologue from his commentary to the Gospel of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 2793

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Harley MS 2793
Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-146v: Psalterium Hebraicum, Psalter in the Hebraicum version, preceded by the prologue of St Jerome (ff. 1v-2v); St Jerome's epistle to Sunnia and Fretela (ff. 3r-32v); beginning with the first Psalm (f. 33r), 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; followed by Canticl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 2805

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2805
Title:
Bible
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-237v: Bible, containing most of the Old Testament (Genesis to Psalm 142), including neumes (ff. 170r-171v), with 15th-century additional folios for text, imperfect. Decoration: Sketch of an animal in brown ink (upper margin f. 27r). Large initial in brown 'E'(t) at the beginn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Harley MS 3012

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3012
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae; Sedulius, Carmen Paschale; Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1r-32v: Augustine of Hippo, De quantitate animae (The measure of the Soul), preceded by the Retractationes (Retractions), Book 1, chapter 8 (ff. 1r-v). ff. 33r-70v: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (Easter Song). ff. 71r-84v: Pseudo-Jerome, In Apocalypsim (Commentary on the Apocalypse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 3023

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3023
Title:
Prudentius, Cathemerinon, Peristephanon and part of Hamartigenia; anonymous explanation of poetic metres and letter on the death of Sigon, abbot of Saint-Florent de Saumur; letters by and from Berengar of Tours and Fulbert of Chartres
Scope & Content:
This manuscript primarily contains works by the Latin Christian poet Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (b. 348, d. after 405): Cathemerinon (Hymns for the Day), Peristephanon (Crowns of the Martyrs), and the final part of Hamartigenia (The Origin of Sin), all glossed and annotated in the 12th century....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex