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1. Add MS 16606

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Title:
Gregorius the Great, Dialogi; Ephraim the Syrian, Sermons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot was written during the abbacy of Erlebald (1158-1192) or Gerard (1191-1210). The manuscript originally contained Gregory the Great’s Dialogi (Dialogues), a collection of sermons by Ephraim the Syrian (b. c. 306, d. 373), but a number of shor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 16961

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Title:
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:
This 10th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Rule of St Benedict. The commentary was written by Smaragdus (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), a monk from the Benedictine abbey of of Saint-Mihiel near Verdun, after the Rule of St Benedict (b. 480, d. 547) had been made the norm for all monastic ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 16963

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Add MS 16963
Title:
John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:
This is a 10th- or 11th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia). It contains the life of St Gregory the Great (d. 604) by John the Deacon of Rome, also known as Johannes Hymonides (d. late 9th century), a popular work among monastic audiences. The manuscript remained...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century-11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 16964

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Title:
John Cassian, De Institutiones Coenobiorum; Collationes Sanctum Patrum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is made out of two parts (part 1: ff. 1-167; part 2: ff. 168-248) that were produced separately at the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia) in the last quarter of the 12th century and were joined there as well. The resulting manuscript contains complete copies of De Instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 18031

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Add MS 18031
Title:
Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal'), volume 1
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first part of a two-volume Missal created for the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot. The second part is Add MS 18032. Contents: ff. 1r-v: A fragment from a 13th-century sacramentary, which includes a mass for the Finding of the Cross with litanies and neumes. f. 2r: A lit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 18032

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Add MS 18032
Title:
Roman Missal ('The Stavelot Missal'), volume 2
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript is the second part of a two-volume Missal created for the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot. The first part is Add MS 18031. This volume was written in the first quarter of the 13th century and was supplemented by 15th-century material. 13th-century contents: ff. 1r-2v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 18043

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Add MS 18043
Title:
Psalter with commentary in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot in the diocese of Liège contains a Psalter with commentary. It also contains songs for the liturgy (canticles), a litany of saints, including St Remaclus, the founder of Stavelot (c. 650), and an exposition on the Athanasian Creed. It is par...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century - 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 24144

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Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum libri adversus paganos (fragments)
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of fragments of a copy of the Historiae Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans) by Paulus Orosius (fl. 5th century) that was written in the 1st quarter of the 8th century. The palaeographical features of the fragments suggest that the text may have been written in Nort...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

Parchment fragments

9. Add MS 24145

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Title:
Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica sive Chronographia Universalis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot contains one of the more than forty extant copies of the world chronicle that Sigebert of Gembloux (b. c. 1028, d. 1112), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Gembloux and St Vincent in Metz, wrote between c. 1086 and 1106. The world chronicle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Stowe MS 3

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Stowe MS 3
Title:
The Four Gospels; a Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Four Gospels with prologues and tables of contents, followed by a lectionary in which readings from the Gospels are divided over the liturgical year. The manuscript has, on stylistic grounds, been identified as a product of the Benedictine abbey of St Remaclus in Sta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

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