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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34036
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 3.
Scope & Content:: Vol. III, ff. 313.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34037
Title:: Manuscript of Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot. Volume 4.
Scope & Content:: Vol. IV, ff. 311.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34114
Title:: A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34124
Title:: Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34209
Title:: Antiphonal and Gradual of Ambrosian use
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652
Title:: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 2: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899); f. 3: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60–62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; ff. 4-43: A collection of leaves from manuscripts from the 12th to the 15t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-15th century
Extent:: A parchment and paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, f 2
Title:: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
Scope & Content:: Contents: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and English, Old
Date Range:: 950-1025
Extent:: 1 folio, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, f 3
Title:: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1025-1050
Extent:: 1 folio, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, ff 4-43
Title:: A collection of single folios from manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century; f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v); f. 6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1200-1500
Extent:: 40 parchment folios, part of a codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34652, ff 44-61
Title:: Facsimiles of medieval manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Contents: Facsimiles of legal, and liturgical manuscripts and engravings, including engravings of King David from Royal MS 15 D iii, f. 268r (f. 45), the Evangelist portraits from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero MS D IV: St Mark, f. 93v, St Luke, f. 137v, St John, f. 209v, St Matthew, f. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 18 paper folios

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