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401. Add MS 38819

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Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Contents: Psalter, use of York. ff. 1r-6v: An Augustinian Calendar, with some Cistercian additions. ff. 7r-135v: The Book of Psalms, imperfect, some Psalms are lacking (lacking Psalms 1:1-5; 9:3-15; 10:4; 11:7; 31:8; 33:7; 34:16; 36:4; 45:1; 47:13; 77:17-33; 91:1; 93:12; 101:11; 105:28; 112:4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

402. Add MS 38895 A

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Title:
Sale of a Vineyard (Jur.Pap. 36, TM 70352, TM 97889)
Scope & Content:
Recto: The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Gathakes from the brothers Barakes and Sobenes. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to November 88 BCE ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Parthian
Date Range:
88 BC or 24 BC
Extent:

Parchment sheet, complete, but damaged by holes of varying size and little surface damage throughout; written on both sides, in Greek on the recto and in Parthian on the verso. The recto bears 64 lines; all margins are extant, with upper and side margins being minimal. On the back there are modern annotations, viz. the inventory number and the British Museum stamp in red. The sheet is housed in a glass case.

403. Add MS 39646

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Title:
Vita Caroli Magni; Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi; Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Visio Eucherii; Libellus de Gestis Anglorum; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Suger of Saint-Denis, Gesta Lodovici
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: Vita Caroli Magni (Life of Charlemagne), beginning ‘Incipit prologus in vita Karoli magni gloriosi Augusti’. ff. 28r-46r: Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi (The History of Charlemagne and Roland), beginning ‘Prefatio in epistola Tulpini archiepiscopi’. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

404. Add MS 40000

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Title:
The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:
This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

405. Add MS 40007

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Title:
Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of letters and historical works written by Ralph of Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler, ecclesiastic and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London. This volume was probably produced in the scriptorium of St Paul's. The prefatory letter to William de Longchamp (d. 1197), chancel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1195
Extent:

A parchment codex

406. Add MS 40074

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Title:
Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis, Epistulae, Dialogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–24r: Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis (CPL 475). The copy includes additonal texts characteristic of the ‘Martinellus’ family: cf. Fontaine, Sulpice Sévère (1967), i. 219–21. Some contemporary interlinear glosses. ff. 24r–34r: Sulpicius Severus, Epistulae (CPL...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

407. Add MS 40076

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Title:
Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1446-1448
Extent:
1 volume

408. Add MS 41623

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Title:
An illustrated Herbal (the 'Codex Bellunensis')
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-147v: A herbal from northern Italy; the text is chiefly an adaptation of Dioscorides, De Materia Medica in Latin, with occasional entries in Italian, including a list or index of plants (ff. 137r, 138r-v, 142r-145r, 147r-v). Other texts inserted in the main text are: ff. 128r-v, 134r-v, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

Paper codex

409. Add MS 41997

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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

410. Add MS 42856

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Title:
'AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY', BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE, the novelist (d. 1882); written 1 Jan.-11 Apr. 1876 (see f. iib) with additions in 1879 (see f. 212). The autograph manuscript (except for some passages from letters quoted on ff. 79-79b, 83, 83b, 190-191), but not apparently that sent to the printers for the first edition published by his elder son, Henry Merivale Trollope, in 1883, where it is stated that the autobiography was begun in the latter part of 1875. 1n the first edition a few passages w...
Scope & Content:
Anthony Trollope, novelist: Autobiography: 1876-1879.: Autogr. Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876-1879
Extent:
1 item

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