Project / Collection: England and France 700-1200 Project / Subject: Theology - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38687
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentaries on Deuteronomy and Joshua
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the commentaries on the Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Joshua of the Benedictine monk Hrabanus Maurus (b. c. 780, d. 856). It was one of several biblical commentaries that the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38817
Title:: Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains De Tabernaculo (On the Tabernacle) and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian, followed by a letter about his de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38818, ff 136-190
Title:: Indices of words and concepts related to works of St Augustine and Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini; a table of chapters of Isidore of Seville, Sententie libri tres
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 136r-185v: Indices of words and concepts related to different works of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). It includes also an index for Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 463), Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini (Epigrams on St Augustine's Sentences). Indices on St Augusti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A part of Add MS 38818

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38818, ff 191-262
Title:: A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt)
Scope & Content:: Formerly bound in a different order. This part was originally prefaced by Robert of Basevorn (fl. 14th century), Forma predicandi (Form of Preaching). Contents: ff. 191r-255v: A collection of sermons in several hands. The original order of this collection is given at the end in a list of cont...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Add MS 38818

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 48984
Title:: Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Homiliae in Evangelia (Sermons on the Gospel) by the pope and theologian St Gregory the Great (b. c. 540 , d. 604). The manuscript was donated by the Cistercian abbey of Caerleon to the Cistercian abbey of Hailes in 1248. Contents: ff. 4r-126v: Gregory the Great, H...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54229
Title:: Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 62122
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew; Commentary on the Book of Daniel
Scope & Content:: This is one of the few manuscripts to survive from the Benedictine abbey of Saint Mary and Saint Rumon at Tavistock (Devon). This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, and contains biblical commentaries by the Church father St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), whose writings were central to the st...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63077
Title:: Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hut...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 36
Title:: Collection of Saints' Lives
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of saints’ lives and lections from saints’ lives. The manuscript was produced at the Augustian Priory of Kirkham in North Yorkshire, in the first or second quarter after its foundation in the 1120s. Its founder, Walter Espec (d. 1153), also foun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 173
Title:: Bruno of Segni, De Sacramentis Ecclesiae; collections of patristic and canonical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of excerpts from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 22r-32r: A collection of excerpts about the baptism of saints from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 32r-51r: A collection of excerpts about the body and blood of Christ and the othe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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