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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21914
Title:: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia; A glossary of Hebrew names (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the first third of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 100) was written at the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. The manuscript contains the Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia (Collections of Readings on the Epistles and Gospels), also known as the Expositio Libri ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21917
Title:: Collection of saints' lives
Scope & Content:: This late 10th-century collection of saints’ lives originates from the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. It opens with the lives of the abbey’s first abbots: the life of St Columbanus (b. 543, d. 615) by Jonas of Bobbio (b. c. 600, d. 659); the life of St Eustace (b. c. 560, d. c. 629); and the life...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21986
Title:: Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Letters) of St Cyprian (b. c. 200, d. 258), bishop of Carthage. Contents: ff. 2r-97r: Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae, beginning: ‘Incipiunt epistolae sancti Cipriani cartaginensis episcopi et martyrii’. [f. 97v is blank]. Decoration: One large initi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21995
Title:: Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript from France contains a copy of the medieval work Passionarius Galeni (Passionary of Galen), attributed to Claudius Galenus (b. 129, d. c. 200/c. 216), Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher; but actually written by Gariopontus (d. 1050), teacher at the School of Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22278
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (books 11-18)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of Liessies in Northern France, which owned the manuscript in the 12th century, possibly until around the mid-19th century. Contents: ff. 1r-122r: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah, Books 11-18. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22398
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22719
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1015, d. 1087), physician and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino. It also includes De Physicis Ligaturis (On Physical Ligatures), the Latin translation of a work by the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22820
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Jeremiah
Scope & Content:: A colophon at the end of this manuscript states that this book was written by Herimann, a monk from the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, for its then abbot St Majolus (b. c. 906, d. 994). This leaves no doubt that the manuscript was written during his abbacy from 956 to 992, and makes it one of the e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23944
Title:: St Augustine, De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium; Contra Julianum
Scope & Content:: This 9th-century manuscript contains De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium (On Marriage and Lust to Valerius) and Contra Julianum (Against Julianus) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript originates from France, but was in England by the late 11th century, when it served as...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24066
Title:: Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1190-14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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