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1. Add MS 46203

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 46203
Title:
Missal
Scope & Content:
This late 12th-century Cistercian manuscript contains a ‘Winter missal’, so-called because its Temporale begins on Pentecost XIX (the 19th Sunday after Trinity) and runs to Quinquagesima. The style of the decorated initials suggests that the manuscript was produced at a Cistercian abbey in North...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Arundel MS 217

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 217
Title:
St Cyprian, Epistulae and other works; Pseudo-Cyprian, De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion and Adversus Judaeos;Hrabanus Maurus, De Cena Cypriani
Scope & Content:
This volume preserves a large number of St Cyprian (b. c. 200 d. c. 258)'s Epistulae (Letters) and other works, as well as two anonymous tracts associated with Cyprian's name, the 3rd-century sermon De Duobus Montibus Sina et Sion (On the Two Mountains of Sinai and Sion) and Adversus Judaeos (Ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

3. Cotton Ch IV 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton Ch IV 39
Title:
Dispensation by Robert Burley, abbot of Fountains Abbey, for women to visit the church of Kirkstall Abbey to gain indulgences
Scope & Content:
Dispensation by Robert Burley, abbot of Fountains Abbey (r. 1383-1410), having full authority over Kirkstall Abbey, for women to visit the church of Kirkstall Abbey on three days in the year in order to gain the indulgences granted by Pope Boniface IX (r. 1389-1404). Given at Fountains (Yorkshi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1402
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 13–24

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Faustina A V, ff 13–24
Title:
Richard Rolle, Emendatio Vitae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 13r-24v: Richard Rolle (b. 1305x10, d. 1349), hermit and religious author, Emendatio Vitae (The Changing of One's Life). Decoration: 1 medium initial in black ink with minor penwork decoration in black and red ink (f. 17r); small (one-line) capitals highlighted in red. Rubrics ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Faustina A V

5. Davis80

Reference (shelfmark):
Davis80
Title:
Glossed Book of Ezekiel
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Book of Ezekiel with Gloss. The manuscript, according to Julian Harrison (unpublished note, see 'Davis80', Database of Bookbindings ( «http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings» [accessed 02 March 2018]) was written by a French scribe in France or England...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume