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11. 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

12. 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

13. Add MS 25014

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Title:
Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-117r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), preceded by the preface (ff. 3r-v), beginning: 'Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice hystorie gentis anglorum. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolfuulfo Beda famulus Christ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

14. 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

15. Add MS 33241

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Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

16. 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

17. Add MS 38130

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Title:
Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the early 12th century mainly contains a life and sermons concerning the 9th-century Benedictine monk St Neot, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735). Its script and op...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

18. Add MS 38817

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Title:
Bede, De Tabernaculo (excerpt); Revelatio Sancti Ragneri Martyris; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert, De Obitu Venerabilis Bede
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Tabernaculo (On the Tabernacle) and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), an English Benedictine monk, theologian, and historian, followed by a letter about his de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

19. Add MS 39646

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Title:
Vita Caroli Magni; Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi; Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni; William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum; Visio Eucherii; Libellus de Gestis Anglorum; William of Jumièges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Suger of Saint-Denis, Gesta Lodovici
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-28r: Vita Caroli Magni (Life of Charlemagne), beginning ‘Incipit prologus in vita Karoli magni gloriosi Augusti’. ff. 28r-46r: Pseudo-Turpin, Historia Caroli Magni et Rolandi (The History of Charlemagne and Roland), beginning ‘Prefatio in epistola Tulpini archiepiscopi’. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

20. Add MS 40000

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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 add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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