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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 41997
Title:: Burchard of Bellevaux, Apologia de Barbis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the Apologia de Barbis (The Defence of Beards) that Burchard (d. 1163), Cistercian Abbot of Bellevaux wrote for the lay brothers of the Abbey of Rosières, a daughter house of Bellevaux. The Apologia is made up of three sermones (speeches) discu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 60
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff. 1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material ('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs days (dies caniculares) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff. 2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican ve...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 98
Title:: Excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus, De viris illustribus; Prefatory epistle to the Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder, Epistula ad Vespasianum; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79)'s Historia naturalis (Natural History), preceded by an excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus (b. 69, d. 140), De viris illustribus (Concerning illustrious men). The manuscript was probably the first volume o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 166
Title:: Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts
Scope & Content:: This is a composite medical manuscript made up of two separate sections (ff. 3r-13v and ff. 14r-90) both from the 9th century, bound together at an unknown date. The first section (ff. 3r-13v) contains De Medicamentis (About Remedies) by Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century); the second section ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230, ff 1-6
Title:: Philippe de Thaon, Comput; De Singulis Mensibus; Calendar; Psalter in Anglo-Norman verse (Prologue); List of perilous days (in Anglo-Norman); prose instruction for masses (in Anglo-Norman)
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), Comput, imperfect; the work continues on ff. 182r-194v; the correct order is ff. 1r, 182r-183v, 185r-185v, 194r-194v, 184r-184v, 192r-192v, 186r-191v, 193r-193v (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), pp. 190-91 [no. 346]). f. 1v: Anonymo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Arundel MS 230

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230, ff 181-194
Title:: List of plant names (in Anglo-Norman); Romance de Alexandre (fragment); Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 182r-194v: Philippe de Thaon, Comput (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), pp. 190-91 [no. 346]). The manuscript contains a number of additions: f. 181r: A list of plants in Anglo-Norman, added in the mid 14th century (see Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature (1999), p. 173 [no....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Arundel MS 230

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 377
Title:: Miscellaneous Astrological texts; Calendar of Saints; Hermann of Reichenau, De Mensura Astrolabii et Ejus Utilitate, cum Tabulis; Ahmad Ibn Muhammed al-Farghānī, Rudamenta Astronomica; Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, De Tabulis Planetarum; Adelard of Bath, Liber Astrolabi; Roger of Hereford, Astrological Tables; Daniel of Morley, De Naturis Superiorum et Inferiorum; William of Conches, Dragmaticon Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of astrological treatises, accompanied by tables and diagrams. ff. 3r-5v: A Calendar of Saints of Ely Cathedral Priory. f. 6r: An anonymous computus text. ff. 6v-15v: Astrological tracts and tables concerning the movement of the sun and the moon, beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 326
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Etymologiae (Etymologies), also known as Origenes (Origins), by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636). This is an encyclopedic work that discusses the origin of words related to the liberal arts and a vast range of other subjects. The manuscript appears to have been...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 91–111
Title:: Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 91r-91v: Computistical tables, the second one for the years 1133-1177. ff. 92r-97v: Calendar, adapted for the use of Canterbury. ff. 98r-108v: Computistical treatises. f. 109r: Genealogy of kings in Anglo-Norman, beginning ‘Hic est Istoria Francorum’ (Anglo-Norman). ff. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178
Title:: Æcerbot charm
Scope & Content:: These folios include a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land (Æcerbot), added in the 1st half of the 11th century. It is primarily in Old English, with some Latin phrases. Contents: ff. 176r-178r: a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land known as Æcerbot. [f. 178v is blank].
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII

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