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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24142
Title:: Bible ('Bible of St Hubert', ‘Codex Hubertianus')
Scope & Content:: This is one of the six extant copies of the thorough critical revision of St Jerome’s text of the Vulgate carried out around the year 800 by Theodulf (d. 821), bishop of Orléans and abbot of Fleury (c. 798-818). Arranged in three columns and written in a small hand more often used for glossing. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24143
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 2-5)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on the Book of Job) (imperfect), beginning at the end of chapter 52 (Book 2): '[...] concremare [est flamma eas] divini amoris incendere, ut totum cor in Dei amore ardeat'. Book 2 ends imperfectly in the middle of chapter 56 (f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24144
Title:: Paulus Orosius, Historiarum libri adversus paganos (fragments)
Scope & Content:: This is a collection of fragments of a copy of the Historiae Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans) by Paulus Orosius (fl. 5th century) that was written in the 1st quarter of the 8th century. The palaeographical features of the fragments suggest that the text may have been written in Nort...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: Parchment fragments

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24145
Title:: Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica sive Chronographia Universalis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot contains one of the more than forty extant copies of the world chronicle that Sigebert of Gembloux (b. c. 1028, d. 1112), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Gembloux and St Vincent in Metz, wrote between c. 1086 and 1106. The world chronicle...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24193
Title:: Venantius Fortunatus, Carmina
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the collection of poems (Carmina) of Venantius Fortunatus (d. after 600), bishop of Poitiers, with accompanying letters including his two acrostic figure-poems. Two flyleaves originally belonging to this volume were removed after the 12th century and are now Columbia, Un...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24914
Title:: Bede, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Expositio; De Dei Judicie; St Jerome, In Ecclesiasten; Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum (12 homilies); Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beate Marie Egyptiace; Marbodius of Rennes, Vita Sancti Laurentii; De Adnuntiatione Beatae Mariae; Vita Metrica Sancti Friderici Episcopi Leodiensis; Frederick I of Schwarzenburg, Epistola ad Clerum Leodiensem; Rudolf of Saint-Trond, Carmen de Theoderico Trudonensi Abate; Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio super Cantica Canti...
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century theological miscellany was owned and may also have been produced by the Benedictine abbey of Sint-Truiden (St Trond), also known as St Trudo’s Abbey. The larger part of the manuscript is composed of biblical commentaries by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), St Jerome (b. 347...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25014
Title:: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-117r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), preceded by the preface (ff. 3r-v), beginning: 'Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice hystorie gentis anglorum. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolfuulfo Beda famulus Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26760
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-187r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23 to 35. Decoration: One large decorated initial 'P'(refacionem) with interlace, floriated motifs and zoomorphic elements, in a multi-coloured frame, with green, red, yellow and blue (f. 1r). Nine large decor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26761
Title:: Origen, Commentary on Matthew (Chapter 36-end)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains part of the commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by the Church Father Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254). The manuscript was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. It was preserved in the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26762
Title:: Theological tracts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of theological tracts. It was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the eldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. The manuscript was preserved in the abbey's library from the 12th century until the monastery was dissolved by F...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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