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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26866
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-229v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses from the Parva Glosatura (Minor Glosses) on the Psalms commonly attributed to Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) and his school, imperfect. It also includes the Canticles (ff. 214v-229v). Decoration: Large framed 'B' for 'Beatus' in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27920
Title:: A noted Breviary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29276
Title:: Lectionary
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany). The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the Law of Moses and the punishment of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 29972
Title:: St Augustine, Homilies
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a fragmentary collection of sermons by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 1st quarter of the 8th century, and written in a type of Merovingian minuscule cursive that is associated with the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil, one of the oldest monast...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31031
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (part 1, books 1-5)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), Moralia in Iob (Commentary on Job), part 1, books 1-5, beginning with the dedicatory epistle to Leander: 'Reverendissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servus servorum Dei. Dudum te frater beatissime in Constantinopolitana...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 33241
Title:: Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34124
Title:: Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34209
Title:: Antiphonal and Gradual of Ambrosian use
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35110
Title:: Vita Sancti Augustini; Possidius, Vita Sancti Augustini; Vita Sancti Eadfridi; Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti; Adomnán, Vita Sancti Columbe
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine). ff. 9v-28r: Possidius (fl. 5th century), Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine). ff. 28r-29v: A list of St Augustine's works. ff. 30r-30v: Historia translationis corporis Sancti Augustini (History of the translation of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 35167
Title:: Glossed Gospel of St Luke
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Gospel of St Luke with the Glossa Ordinaria. Typically associated with Anselm of Laon, the Glossa Ordinaria (marginal and interlinear) was a commentary designed to help readers interpret the Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-3r: A prologue without glosses, beginning ‘Lucas S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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