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1. Add MS 10546

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Title:
Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:
This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, 'Carol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 830-c 840
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Add MS 18338

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Title:
Isidore of Seville, De Ecclesiasticis Officiis; Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis (About the Church Offices) by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) and De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber (Book about the Virtues and Vices) by Alcuin of York (b. 735, d. 804). It was produced in the 10th century, possibly in Lorraine (s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 22398

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Title:
Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collection of capitularies made in 827 by Ansegisus (d. c. 833), abbot of Fontenelles. The manuscript includes various other Carolingian legal texts and two short tracts on urine and prognostics. Contents: f. 2r: A fragment of a breviary to the Gospel of Matthew in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. 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