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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

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 E IX
Title:: Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160)'s Gloss on the Pauline Epistles or Magna glossatura. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 B XV
Title:: Augustine, Enchiridion; Autpert Ambrose, Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum; John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub Figura Persecutionis; Lectiones de Miraculis Sancti Lethardi Episcopi; Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. i recto-48v [Part 1]; ff. 49r-56v [Part 2]; 57r-64v [Part 3]; and 65r-133v [Part 4]) that were produced between the 4th quarter of the 11th century and the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (see 'Provenance' for the dating of the separate parts). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XI
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XIII
Title:: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica; Sermons; Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia; Excerpts from the canonical collection: 'Collection Hibernensis'; De remediis peccatorum; A fragment of the apocryphal Book of Enoch; De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum; Gospel of Nicodemus (incomplete).
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica: '[Can]on in ebreica, regula in greca, [ae]quitas [in lati]na'. ff. 9r-15v: Sermons: 'De reddendis decimis et primitivis que dominus precepit. Primus homo qui dedit primam et primitivam Domino suo pro suo peccato...-... et de omnibus insidis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 100 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 F III
Title:: Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c. 900
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 A VI
Title:: Commentaries on the Song of Salomon and a theological treatise; Aldhem's letter to Heahfrid, Epistola ad Heahfridum with glosses; Aldhem, De laudibus Virginitatis with glosses.
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains: ff. 1r-4v: flyleaves taken from a 13th century manuscript, two of them are commentaries on the Song of Salomon and the other are from a theological treatise. Note that ff. 1 and 4 are bounded upside down. ff. 5r-9r: Aldhem's letter to Heahfrid, Epistola ad Heahfridu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 10th century- 1st half of 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 109 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 A VII
Title:: John the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni (Life of St Gregory the Great) by John the Deacon of Rome (b. c. 825; d. 880). Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A preface for the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni, beginning: 'Incipit Vita Gregorii papae urbis Romae. Beatissimo ac felicissimo domino Iohann...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VI
Title:: St Ambrose, De Mysteriis; St Ambrose, De Sacramentis; St Ivo of Chartres, De ecclesiasticis sacramentis; St Bruno of Segni, De sacramentis ecclesiae; St Ivo of Chartres, Epistulae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was written by two scribes (ff. 1-22 and ff. 23-126), according to Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community' (1980), p. 314. The second hand (Rochester scribe 4) also wrote Royal MS 5 B IV and Royal MS 15 A XXII, according to Waller. This manuscript consists of two texts...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VII
Title:: Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r). Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 11th century-12th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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