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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VI
Title:: St Ambrose, De Mysteriis; St Ambrose, De Sacramentis; St Ivo of Chartres, De ecclesiasticis sacramentis; St Bruno of Segni, De sacramentis ecclesiae; St Ivo of Chartres, Epistulae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was written by two scribes (ff. 1-22 and ff. 23-126), according to Waller, 'The Library, Scriptorium and Community' (1980), p. 314. The second hand (Rochester scribe 4) also wrote Royal MS 5 B IV and Royal MS 15 A XXII, according to Waller. This manuscript consists of two texts...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 B VIII
Title:: Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI
Title:: The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 1-5v
Title:: The Book of Job (24-42)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5v: The book of Job (24:20-42:16), imperfect beginning: 'Non sit in recordatione sed conteratur quasi lignum infructuosum'. Decoration: Small initials in red or blue.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A part of Royal MS 6 C VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C VI, ff. 6-259
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on the Moralia in Job
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 6r-258v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35), beginning: 'Quotiens in Sancti viri historia per novum volumen enodare mysterium typice expositionis aggredimur'. Book 17 (ff. 6r-15r); Book 18 (ff. 15r-33v); Book 19 (ff. 33v-45v); Book 20 (ff. 45v-61r); Book 21 (ff. 61r-6...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A part of Royal MS 6 C VI

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C X
Title:: Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C IV
Title:: Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D II
Title:: Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: An added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, bound upside down. ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi, beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam'. Imperfect, ending 'in hoc mundo carnalis conuersatio'. Copied in a 12th-cent...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-17th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV, f 1
Title:: Fragment of a writ
Scope & Content:: This folio contains a fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, dated 1540. It is bound upside down in the present volume.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

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