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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38118
Title:: Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Pol lapostre dit que tous iceux qui vuelent debonairement vivre en Ihesu Christ'. Ending: 'et dist ainsi '. ff. 2r-43v: Apocalypse : 'Ie Iehan vostre frère et parconniers en tribulations'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seigneur soit ave...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38120
Title:: Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:: Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-110r: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory of the pilgrimage of the so...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38121
Title:: 'Picture-Book' of the life of St John the Evangelist; St Jerome's Preface; Apocalypse
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v: 'Picture-book' of the life of St John the Evangelist. f. 3r: Preface of Jerome followed by a table of contents. Rubric: 'Incipit prefatio Sancti Iheronimi presbitri (sic), in Apocalipsi Sancti Johannis'. Beginning: 'Johannes, apostolus et evangelista, a Domino Christo elec...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38130
Title:: Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the early 12th century mainly contains a life and sermons concerning the 9th-century Benedictine monk St Neot, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735). Its script and op...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38603
Title:: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Seven Penitential Psalms and other prayers ('The Prayer book of King Alexander of Poland')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is a compilation of prayers which were selected, as the colophon suggests, at the request of prince Alexander of Poland, including: ff. 1r-15r: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Seven Penitential Psalms, dedicated to Sacramor de Pommier, rubric: 'Francisci petrarce poete laureati p...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1491
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38604
Title:: Breviary for Birgittine Use
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an illuminated Breviary. A rubric at the beginning of the volume (f. 16r) states that it was made in 1470 for a Sister Margarita, daughter of Alessio Saluzzo, upon her entry into the Birgittine monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, includin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1470
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38645
Title:: Benedictional and Pontifical
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains two collections of blessings: a Benedictional, containing texts for blessing sacerdotal objects, clothes, and monastic buildings; and a Pontifical, containing texts for rites exclusively performed by bishops. The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38687
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentaries on Deuteronomy and Joshua
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the commentaries on the Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Joshua of the Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus (b. c. 780, d. 856). It was one of several biblical commentaries that the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38817
Title:: Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains De Tabernaculo (On the Tabernacle) and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian, followed by a letter about his de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38818
Title:: A collection of works by Palladius, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Justinian, St Augustine, Prosper of Aquitaine, Isidore of Seville, and Robert of Basevorn
Scope & Content:: This manuscripts consists of three different parts that were bound together before 1592, as follows: ff. 1-135: Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts). ff. 136-190: Indices of words and c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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