The four Gospels ('Athelstan' or 'Coronation' Gospels)
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The four Gospels with prefatory texts. The detailed contents are as follows: 1. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (ff. 3r-5v); 2. Prologue to the Gospels (ff. 5v-8r); 3. Letter from Eusebius to Carpianus (ff. 8r-9r); 4. Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum, II (ff. 9r-9v); 5. Argumentum Evangelii secundum...
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, B-text; note on the True Cross; list of the archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received the pallia
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These folios contain the B-text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 60 BC–AD 977. A note on the True Cross in Latin and a list of archbishops of Canterbury and from whom they received their pallia were added to these folios in last quarter of the 11th century or the 1st quarter of the 12t...
Cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory (imperfect), including Inquisitio Eliensis and Inquisitio comitatus Cantabrigiensis
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These folios contain an early, though imperfect, cartulary of Ely Cathedral Priory. Most of the text was written in late 12th century. There is Old English text on ff. 99r–100r, 102v–103r. These folios also contain: ff. 36r-68v: Inquisitio Eliensis; ff. 69v-70v: additions from the middle of ...
Chronicle of English history, AD 1042–1346 (incomplete)
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These folios contain an imperfect chronicle of English history, between 1042-1346. Most of the text is written in Anglo-Norman, and there is some Latin (ff. 185r–195r, 197v–198v). Decoration: large initial in gold on a red and blue background with botanical details (f. 121r); initials in red an...
This manuscript contains a variety of texts bound together as follows: ff. 1-38: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle; musical staves with neums (38v) (4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century); ff. 39–106v John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (2nd quarter of the 15th...
Martinus Polonus, Chronicle (ff. 1r–38r); musical staves with neums (f. 38v)
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Contents: ff. 1r-38r: Martinus Polonus, Chronicle (13th century); f. 38r: An added paragraph from Henry of Huntington's Chronicle (15th century); f. 38v: Part of the Gloria, written above musical staves with neums (14th century). Decoration: Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 15th century
John Lydgate (?), The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
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Contents: The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (Boffey 4265, imperfect), a verse translation of Guillaume de Deguileville, Le Pelerinage de la vie Humaine, attributed to John Lydgate (for discussion of Lydgate's authorship, see Walls (1977) and Green 'Lydgate and Deguileville' (1978)). The text ...
Chronicle of English history, from Ascanius to 1327
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Contents: Chronicle of English history, from Ascanius to 1327, with an addition in cursive at the end (f. 164v) Decoration: One initial in gold on a rose and blue ground (f. 107r). A circular diagram of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms (f. 133r). Initials in blue with pen-flourishing in red. Rubrics an...
Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata; Versus ad coniugem with Old English gloss
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Contents: Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata, fragment (ff. 166r–v, 165v); Prosper of Aquitaine, Uersus ad coniugem, fragment (ff. 165v–r: Schaller Initia carminum 458 ), 3rd quarter of the 9th century, with an Old English gloss dated to the 1st half of the 11th century. The pages are misbound ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century-1st half of the 11th century