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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 B VII, ff 319r-319v
Title:: Later inscription by customs officer
Scope & Content:: Inscription by Customs Officer Baldwin Smith, who seized the manuscript in the course of his duties in October 1553 and presented it to Queen Mary Tudor: inscribed 'hunc librum nautis ad exteros transvehendum datu[m]: / spectatus et honestus vir Baldwinus Smithus Londini / a portoriis et vectigal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1553
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 C I
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Ownership marks and inscriptions relating to the Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury and the Old Royal Library. ff. 2r-3v: A set of letters between Isidore of Seville and Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (631-651), written in Latin, beginning, 'Domino meo et dei servo.....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 E IX
Title:: Convenevole da Prato, Carmina regia : Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou
Scope & Content:: Carmina regia: Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou. Address in Latin verse intimately connected with the accompanying miniatures, to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the town of Prato in Tuscany, which had placed itself under his protection, c. 1335-1340. The text may perhaps be...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1335
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 E VI/1
Title:: James le Palmer, Omne Bonum (Absolucio-Circumcisio)
Scope & Content:: Contents: James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, ff. 1-268 containing alphabetical entries from 'Absolucio' to 'Circumcisio'. One of four volumes of this work; the remaining volumes are Royal 6 E VI/2, Royal 6 E VII/1 and Royal 6 E VI/2. Decoration: 109 prefatory miniatures in tinted drawing of Old a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1360-c. 1375
Extent:: A parchment codex, 268 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 E VI/2
Title:: James le Palmer Omne Bonum (Circumcisio-Dona Spiritui Sancti)
Scope & Content:: Contents: James le Palmer Omne Bonum, ff. 269-562 containing alphabetical entries from 'Circumcisio' to 'Dona Spiritui Sancti'. One of four volumes of this work; the remaining volumes are Royal 6 E VI/1, Royal 6 E VII/1 and Royal 6 E VI/2. Decoration: One miniature in colours and gold (f. 3...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1360-c. 1375
Extent:: A parchment codex, 293 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 E VII/1
Title:: James le Palmer, Omne Bonum (Ebrietas-Humanus)
Scope & Content:: Contents: James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, ff. 1-224, containing alphabetical entries from 'Ebrietas' to 'Humanus'. One of four volumes of this work; the remaining volumes are Royal 6 E VI/1, Royal 6 E VI/2 and Royal 6 E VI/2. Decoration: Numerous large and small historiated initials in colours...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1360-c. 1375
Extent:: A parchment codex, 224 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 E VII/2
Title:: James le Palmer, Omne Bonum (Jacob-Zacharias)
Scope & Content:: Contents: James le Palmer, Omne Bonum, ff. 225-532, containing the alphabetical entries from 'Jacob' to 'Zacharias'. The text in this volume was left unfinished: it includes only one article under each letter from 'N' to 'Z'. One of four volumes of this work; the remaining volumes are Royal 6 ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c. 1360-c. 1375
Extent:: A parchment codex, 307 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 2r-3v
Title:: Fragments of canon tables
Scope & Content:: This item consists of fragments of canon tables, apparently taken from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, possibly made in Northumbria. The Greek letter 'pi' appears in a colophon. Due to the size of the manuscript fragments, it is possible that they come from the same volume as Cambridge...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 7th or 1st quarter of 8th century
Extent:: 2 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 4r-218v
Title:: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, First Series
Scope & Content:: This item consists of the earliest known copy of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies. This copy lacks the prefaces found in later versions, and some of the homilies are imperfect (numbers i, xv, xx, xxiii, and xxiv in Catholic Homilies, ed. by Clemoes (1997), p. 1). The main text was ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c 1000
Extent:: 214 folios, part of a parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 C XII, ff 219r-231v
Title:: Extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
Scope & Content:: This item contains extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche (beginning 'Augustinus quoque sanctus in sermonibus de sabbato Pasche refert et hec'), as well as the Gospel of Nicodemus and fragments of Cassiodorus Senator's Expositio Psalmorum. There are lar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of 12th century
Extent:: 12 folios, part of a parchment codex

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