Subject: Bible - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

21. Add MS 40000

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40000
Title:: The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:: This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was added t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 46487
Title:: The Sherborne Cartulary, a collection of charters and other documents; Passions, Gospels and liturgical texts
Scope & Content:: Cartulary and documents of the Benedictine abbey of Sherborne, Dorset, containing copies of royal, papal and episcopal charters in Latin and Old English, followed by account of the Passion by the four Evangelists, Gospels, collects, blessings and other ceremonies. The boundaries of lands are written...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54229
Title:: Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made within...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 63077
Title:: Glossed Book of Genesis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a glossed Book of Genesis. The glosses are that of the Glossa Salomonis (Salomo's Gloss), a commentary on the Book of Genesis, attributed to Salomo III Ranschwag (b. 890, d. 922), Bishop of Constance and abbot of St Gall. It survives in three English manuscripts (see Hutton ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 60
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Old English; A Lunarium for bloodletting; The Six Ages of the World; A list of the bishops of Winchester
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A lunarium (lunar calendar) for bloodletting. ff. 1v-12r: A liturgical calendar including computational material ('Winchester computus') for the moveable feasts (f. 8r). The Dogs days (dies caniculares) and Egyptian days are mentioned (ff. 2r-7v). ff. 13r-119r: A Gallican version of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 125
Title:: Books of Job and Ezra with St Jerome's prologues
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: St Jerome's prologue to the Book of Job, beginning: 'Incipit praefatio Hieronimi. Cogor per singulos scripturae divinae libros'; followed by the capitula of the book of Job (ff. 3v-5r). ff. 5v-51r: The Book of Job, beginning: 'Incipit Liber beati Iob, vir erat in terra hus nomin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 155
Title:: Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compariso...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 157
Title:: The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is an early example of a Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary attached (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), p. 201 (no. 2). p. 201). The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but probably has a connection with Oxford since its Calendar contains three feasts of St Fridesw...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 230, ff 7-161
Title:: The Book of Psalms, canticles and hymns with an interlinear translations in Anglo-Norman; Litany of Saints
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 7r-146r: The Book of Psalms, with an interlinear translation in Anglo-Norman. ff. 146r-157v: Canticles and hymns (Confitebor tibi , Ego dixi, Exultavit cor meum, Cantemus domino gloriose, Domine audivi, Audite celi, Benedicite, Te Deum, Benedictus, Quicumque Vult), with interlinear tra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Arundel MS 230

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 4
Title:: Bible; the Interpretations of Hebrew names, synoptic table of biblical parallels
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two parts: the original part contains the Old and New Testament of the Latin Vulgate (ff. 1-249, 273-656). The younger part (ff. 250-277*, ff. 657-667) seems to have been added in the second half of the 14th century to replace lost or damaged parts of the Old Testament (2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex