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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Place Western France

1. Add MS 21164

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Add MS 21164
Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The lexicon is preceded by a description on the shorthand by Isidore of Seville (b....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 40000

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Add MS 40000
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

3. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

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Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Egerton MS 609

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Egerton MS 609
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 2719

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Harley MS 2719
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. Harley MS 2795

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Harley MS 2795
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Prologus Quattuor Evangeliorum ex Commentario Hieronymi in Mattheum (Prologue to the Four Gospels from St Jerome's commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew), beginning: 'Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt'. ff. 4r-6v: St Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (St Jerome's e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 3107

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Harley MS 3107
Title:
St Augustine, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
The Epistolae (Letters) of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). Written in Western or North-Western France (ex info. Michael Gullick), the manuscript was given by the bishop of Lucca to the Carmelite convent of San Pietro Cigoli in Lucca. Contents: ff. 1*v-147v: Augustine, Epistolae, beginning: ‘D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Royal MS 1 A XVIII

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Royal MS 1 A XVIII
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-11v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 12r-66r: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by a preface (ff. 12r-13r). ff. 66r-99r: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by a preface (ff. 66r-67r) and capitula (ff. 67r-68r). ff. 99v-159v: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by capitula (ff. 99...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex