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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 40007
Title:: Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of letters and historical works written by Ralph of Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler, ecclesiastic and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London. This volume was probably produced in the scriptorium of St Paul's. The prefatory letter to William de Longchamp (d. 1197), chancel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1195
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 wri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 10
Title:: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 94
Title:: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). The other volume has not survived, but would have contained books 1-14 of Josephus’s work. This manuscript contains the last books, 15-20, and include...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 153
Title:: Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England. Contents: ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire. ff. 5r-8r: Dorset. ff. 8v-15v: Somerset. ff. 16r-23r: Devon. ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall. ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex. ff. 27v-31v: Hertfor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 375
Title:: Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of the Liber Historie Francorum (the History of the Franks) in its Austrasian reworking (Austrasia was a Merovingian kingdom situated in the North-East of France), followed by the anonymous Excidium Troiae (The Destruction of Troy) and a part of the Annales Me...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 216
Title:: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (imperfect); Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Constantinus Africanus, De Melancholia; Peter Abelard, Carmen ad Astralabium
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 5r-88v: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans), imperfect, starting at a Nino beli filio rege Assyriorum; preceded by a capitula list (ff. 2v-4v). ff. 89r-93v: Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia (On the destruction of Troy), followed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 326
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Etymologiae (Etymologies), also known as Origenes (Origins), by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636). This is an encyclopedic work that discusses the origin of words related to the liberal arts and a vast range of other subjects. The manuscript appears to have been...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 91–111
Title:: Computistical tables; Calendar; Computistical treatises; Historia Francorum; Philippe de Thaon, Comput
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 91r-91v: Computistical tables, the second one for the years 1133-1177. ff. 92r-97v: Calendar, adapted for the use of Canterbury. ff. 98r-108v: Computistical treatises. f. 109r: Genealogy of kings in Anglo-Norman, beginning ‘Hic est Istoria Francorum’ (Anglo-Norman). ff. 10...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Caligula A VII, f 1
Title:: Medieval memorandum, dated 1371–72; early modern instructions for binding
Scope & Content:: This folio contains a memorandum in Anglo-Norman French, dated 1371-72. It also contains instructions for binding a manuscript, in an early modern hand, and the shelfmark 'Caligula A. 7.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII

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