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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 217
Title:: St Cyprian, Epistulae and other works; Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion and Adversus Judaeos;Hrabanus Maurus, De Cena Cypriani
Scope & Content:: This volume preserves a large number of St Cyprian (b. c. 200 d. c. 258)'s Epistulae (Letters) and other works, as well as two anonymous tracts associated with Cyprian's name, the 3rd-century sermon De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion (On the Two Mountains of Sinai and Sion) and Adversus Judaeos (Ag...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 218
Title:: Adalbert of Metz, Speculum Gregorii; Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (excerpt); Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo de Disciplina Christiana
Scope & Content:: This is one of the dozen identified manuscripts from the Augustinian Priory of St Mary at Guisborough in North Yorkshire. It includes the Speculum Gregorii (Mirror of St Gregory) by Adalbert of Metz (fl. late 10th century). The Speculum Gregorii was one of the most popular florilegia (collection...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230
Title:: Philippe de Thaon, Comput; De Singulis Mensibus; Psalter with gloss and prologue in Anglo-Norman; List of perilous days; Instructions for masses; List of plant names; Roman d'Alexandre (fragment)
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. 1-6; ff. 7-161; ff. 162-180; ff. 181-194) that were produced in England during the 12th and 13th centuries. The manuscript contains the single surviving copy of an Anglo-Norman interlinear translation of the Gallican version of the Psalter. The ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half 12th century-3rd quarter 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 235
Title:: Hugh of Langres, Commentarius in Psalmos; Interpretatio Alphabeti Hebraici
Scope & Content:: This late 11th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Psalms by the theologian Hugh of Langres (d. 1050), Bishop of Langres, and an allegorical interpretation of the names of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The script and initials, according to Michael Gullick (unpublished notes), s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 241
Title:: Pseudo-Athanasius, De Trinitate
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was most likely produced in the 10th or early 11th century (ex info. Michael Gullick; but dated to the 2nd quarter of the 9th century by Bischoff, Katalog, II (2004), no. 2414). It contains a collection of three of the works that are commonly referred to by the title De Trinitate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 348
Title:: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium; Thierry of Chartres, Commentary on Cicero's De Inventione; Boethius, Commentary on Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript made up of three originally separate parts (ff. 1-101v; 102r-179v; 180r-276v): Contents: ff. 1r-51v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Inventione (On Invention). ff. 51v-101v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium (The Rhetoric to Herennius). ff. 102r-179v: Thierry of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 375
Title:: Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of the Liber Historie Francorum (the History of the Franks) in its Austrasian reworking (Austrasia was a Merovingian kingdom situated in the North-East of France), followed by the anonymous Excidium Troiae (The Destruction of Troy) and a part of the Annales Me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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):: Arundel MS 490
Title:: Decretum Gratiani; Collectio Eberbacensis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was written at the very end of the 12th century in Northern France, more likely in Sens than in Paris (see Stirnemann, 'En quête de Sens' (2007), p. 305). The conciliar canons of the third Council of Lateran (1179) provide the terminus a quo for the manuscript. The manuscript con...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 154
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'Self-communion' and 'The Narrow Way': two poems by Anne Brontë; 1847-1848. Autograph fair copies, with revisions and deletions, written on both sides of nine octavo leaves of white wove paper and on one side only of a tenth. Watermark 'J Whatman/1833'. The longer poem, written on ff. 1-9, is en...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1847-1848
Extent:: 1 item

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