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1. Add MS 8873

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Title:
Collectio Britannica
Scope & Content:
The only witness of a canonical collection commonly called the Collectio Britannica (The British Collection). This collection originated in France (perhaps in Chartres), and was a reworking of a previous collection. Historical excerpts contained in this manuscript suggest that the manuscript i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 11440

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Title:
Two canon law compilations
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two canon law texts and a tree diagram reflecting consanguinity rules. The first text is a collection concerning penance, which opens with De Penitentia Sive Medicus (About Penance or the Physician) by Burchard of Worms (d. 1025), followed by excerpts attributed to many ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 11853

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Title:
The Pauline Epistles with Gloss
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Pauline Epistles with the Gloss by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. c. 1076, d. 1154), biblical commentator and theologian, bishop of Poitiers (f. 193r: ‘Expliciunt Glosæ Magistri Gisleberti pictavensis episcopi super Epistolas pauli’). The text has been written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 15304

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Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: The Eusebian Canon tables, (incomplete, containing only the titles). ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), Epistula ad Damasum (The Letter of Jerome to Damasus), beginning: 'Novum opus facere me cogis'. ff. 5r-7r: St Jerome, Prologus quattuor evangelium ex commentario Hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 16414

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Title:
Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum; John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum; John Cassian, Collationes; John Cassian, De Incarnatione Domini Contra Nestorium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-v: Pseudo-Castor of Apt, Epistula ad Cassianum (Epistle to Cassian). ff. 2r-47r: John Cassian, De Institutis Coenobiorum (Institues of the Monasteries), preceded by the prologue (ff. 2r-v). ff. 48r-193v: John Cassian, Collationes (Collations), preceded by a list of the colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 16984

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Title:
Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:
Contents: This 12th-century manuscript consists of two treatises dedicated to the art of rhetoric. Although they were composed by different authors, the two rhetorical works are closely related. The De Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 17808

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Title:
Scientific treatises on Music, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of scientific works. It opens with treatises on music by the Italian Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo (b. c. 995, d. 1050) that were highly influential in the development of polyphonic music and staff notation. The section on music is followed by works on ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 21164

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The lexicon is preceded by a description on the shorthand by Isidore of Seville (b....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

9. Add MS 23944

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Title:
St Augustine, De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium; Contra Julianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century manuscript contains De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium (On Marriage and Lust to Valerius) and Contra Julianum (Against Julianus) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript originates from France, but was in England by the late 11th century, when it served as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 26866

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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

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