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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X Place England Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

1. Royal MS 2 E XIII

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Royal MS 2 E XIII
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 2 E XIV. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue of Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning: 'Incipit Breviarium Sancti Hieronimi praesbiteri in psalterio. Proxime cum Origenis psalterium, quod encheridion ille vocab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
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Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

2. Royal MS 2 E XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 E XIV
Title:
Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is bound with Royal 2 MS E XIII. Contents: ff. 1r-136r: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning at the end of Psalms 50 'Vel multi habent cor contricum' to Psalm 100. Decoration: Small initials in red, some with penwork decoration, with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

3. Royal MS 4 D II

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Royal MS 4 D II
Title:
Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1175-c 1225
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Royal MS 6 B VIII

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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

5. Royal MS 8 E IV

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Royal MS 8 E IV
Title:
Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript contains the Epistles of Ennodius (d. 521) from book 1 to 9 and some extracts from the Opuscula and the Dictiones. The texts are largely corrupted and abridged. The manuscript also includes a series of anonymous epistles (ff. 50r-55r), perhaps in order to provide examp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Royal MS 13 A XI

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Royal MS 13 A XI
Title:
Miscellany of works on computus and astronomy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: Helperic of Auxerre, Computus preceded by a prologue (f. 1r) and capitula (f. 1v). ff. 12v-13r: Dies Egyptiaci (Egyptian days). ff. 13r-14r: Computus material including Ciclus annalis, De horis mensium and De singulis horis in die quomodo mensurantur cum pedibus with a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Royal MS 15 A II

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Royal MS 15 A II
Title:
Jane Lumley, translation of Isocrates, Evagoras
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Evagoras, one of the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley and written in her own hand. The manuscript is a presentation copy, described in Lu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Royal MS 15 A IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A IX
Title:
Jane Lumley, translations of Isocrates, Orationes, and Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Scope & Content:
This volume is a commonplace book containing the Orationes of the Ancient Greek rhetorician Isocrates (b. 436, d. 338 BC), in a Latin translation composed by Jane Lumley (b. 1537, d. 1578), Baroness Lumley, and written in her hand. Two of the orations are prefaced by dedicatory epistles to her f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Royal MS 15 A VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:
Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Royal MS 17 B XXVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 B XXVIII
Title:
Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1536-1581
Extent:
1 volume