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1. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v

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Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 1r-73v
Title:
Juvencus, Evangelia, Aldhelm of Sherborne, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede the Venerable, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25)
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents written by different hands including an inscription referring to the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preceded by a medieval pressmark. A seal with a ship at the bottom of the folio. ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels) with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

2. Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D XXIV, ff 82r-162v, 166r-168v
Title:
Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, letter to Heahfrith (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. : Aldhelm's De Virginitate, with a table of contents (ff. 82r-85v) and a sketch of a writing figure (f. 85v). One of the scribes may also have been the main hand of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 183 (see Bishop, 'Early Example' (1966), p. 247). It is followed by a copy of Aldh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 7 D XXIV

3. Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174

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Cotton MS Tiberius A XV, f 174
Title:
Gospel of St John; A charter of Duke William II of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 174r: a fragment from a Gospel of St John copied in the middle of the 10th century. f. 174v: a charter of William II, duke of Normandy (b. 1035, d. 1087), later King William I of England (r. 1066-1087), for the chapel of Notre Dame, Cherbourg, dated between 1063 and 1066 and copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 10th century-2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A XV

4. Cotton MS Otho B X

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Cotton MS Otho B X
Title:
Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
Scope & Content:
Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Cotton MS Vespasian D XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Vespasian D XV
Title:
Pontifical, with medieval endleaves; a penitential manual including Isidore of Seville, Sententiarum; and St Jerome, De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustine, Sermo lx; Ps.-Caesarius of Arles, Homilia xx); Canones Cottoniani, an adaptation of the Iudicia Theodori; Amalarius, De ecclesiasticis officiis (excerpts, imperfect), with medieval endleaves including further excerpts from De ecclesiasticis officiis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84

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Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84
Title:
Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Irishman (b. 819, d. 875), Scholica graecarum glossarum; alphabetical glossary of words chiefly of Greek origin: Decoration: Initial and rubric in red (f. 74v). Added in the 11th century: full page outline drawing of a Romanesque building with towers (f. 84 u...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century
Extent:
Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

7. Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179

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Cotton MS Tiberius A III, f 179
Title:
Horologium; mass prayer
Scope & Content:
These folios contain two texts copied in the 4th quarter of the 10th century. Contents: ff. 179r–179v: a Horologium in Old English. f. 179v: a mass prayer in Latin. Decoration: One small initial in red ink. Several small initials in brown ink. Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Tiberius A III

8. Royal MS 2 E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
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
Extent:

Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

9. 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

10. Add MS 33241

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

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