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1. Add MS 15350

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Title:
Codex Wintoniensis (The St Swithun Cartulary)
Scope & Content:
Known as 'Codex Wintoniensis', this 12th-century manuscript contains the St Swithun or Winchester Cartulary, a collection of charters pertaining to the cathedral priory of Winchester (Old Minster) written in Latin and Old English. The manuscript may have been in the hands of the Benedictine monk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1130-1150
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 16918

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Title:
Usuard, Martyrology; lections for Sundays and liturgical feasts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was originally bound together with Add MS 16979, containing a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Gilles and the Rule of St Benedict. The original manuscript was copied by scribe who identifies himself as 'Petrus Guillelmus', a Benedictine monk from Saint-Gilles, and wh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1129
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 16963

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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 16974

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew (books I-IV); Eusebius of Caesara, Chronicon (with additions); Stephen of Saint Trond, Miracula Sancti Trudonis; Passio Sancti Gorgonii; Passio Sancti Cornelii Pape
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), the Chronicon (Chronicle), a universal history written by Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), the Miracula Sancti Trudonis (Miracles of St Trond) by Stephen of Saint-Trond (fl. c. 1050), and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 19725

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Title:
A collection of anonymous sermons; Martyrology and Kalendar; Pseudo-Bede, computistical extracts; Regulæ et Instructiones Sacerdotum; Gennadius of Marseille, De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus; Capitula Parisiensia; Liber de Gestis Sanctorum Patrum Miracula
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of pastoral texts compiled in the late 9th century. Contents: ff. 2r-4v: Unidentified sermons, beginning 'Cum igitur fere in omnibus paginis'. ff. 5r-30r: Martyrology (imperfect) and Kalendar, extracted from Usuard (d. 877), beginning 'celebraret in media...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 21917

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Title:
Collection of saints' lives
Scope & Content:
This late 10th-century collection of saints’ lives originates from the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. It opens with the lives of the abbey’s first abbots: the life of St Columbanus (b. 543, d. 615) by Jonas of Bobbio (b. c. 600, d. 659); the life of St Eustace (b. c. 560, d. c. 629); and the life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 24914

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Title:
Bede, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Expositio; De Dei Judicie; St Jerome, In Ecclesiasten; Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum (12 homilies); Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beate Marie Egyptiace; Marbodius of Rennes, Vita Sancti Laurentii; De Adnuntiatione Beatae Mariae; Vita Metrica Sancti Friderici Episcopi Leodiensis; Frederick I of Schwarzenburg, Epistola ad Clerum Leodiensem; Rudolf of Saint-Trond, Carmen de Theoderico Trudonensi Abate; Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio super Cantica Canti...
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century theological miscellany was owned and may also have been produced by the Benedictine abbey of Sint-Truiden (St Trond), also known as St Trudo’s Abbey. The larger part of the manuscript is composed of biblical commentaries by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), St Jerome (b. 347...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 29276

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Title:
Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany). The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the Law of Moses and the punishment of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Add MS 34124

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Title:
Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 35110

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Title:
Vita Sancti Augustini; Possidius, Vita Sancti Augustini; Vita Sancti Eadfridi; Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti; Adomnán, Vita Sancti Columbe
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine). ff. 9v-28r: Possidius (fl. 5th century), Vita Sancti Augustini (Life of St Augustine). ff. 28r-29v: A list of St Augustine's works. ff. 30r-30v: Historia translationis corporis Sancti Augustini (History of the translation of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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