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1. Add MS 8873

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Title:
Collectio Britannica
Scope & Content:
The only witness of a canonical collection commonly called the Collectio Britannica (The British Collection). This collection originated in France (perhaps in Chartres), and was a reworking of a previous collection. Historical excerpts contained in this manuscript suggest that the manuscript i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 11440

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Title:
Two canon law compilations
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two canon law texts and a tree diagram reflecting consanguinity rules. The first text is a collection concerning penance, which opens with De Penitentia Sive Medicus (About Penance or the Physician) by Burchard of Worms (d. 1025), followed by excerpts attributed to many ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 11662

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A versified chronicle from the priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs (imperfect), followed by a modern copy of the cartulary
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Part of this manuscript (ff. 4-9) was produced in Paris (the abbey of Saint-Martin-des-Champs) between 1072-1079, according to Prou, 'Dessins du XIe siècle' (1890). This chronicle is now imperfect because of a lacking folio after f. 4. A complete copy of this text with illuminations was made in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Add MS 14252

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Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 15222

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A collection of Ordines Romani including Angilram of Metz, De cantorum et lectorum ordinatione and a series of oaths held before the archbishop of Besançon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a pontifical for a bishop built around a collection of Ordines Romani ('Orders of the Romans') originating in the 8th-century, including the Decretum Gelasianum de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis (The Decretal of Gelasius: On Books to Be Admitted and not to Be A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

6. Add MS 15350

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Title:
Codex Wintoniensis (The St Swithun Cartulary)
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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

7. Add MS 15602

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Title:
Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis (The Institutions of the Canons of Aachen), the resolutions of the Council of Aachen of 816 pertaining to the life of ecclesiastical canons. The text has been at times associated with Amalarius, bishop of Trier (b. 775, d. 850), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 16961

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Title:
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict
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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

9. Add MS 16979

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Title:
Necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes); Regula Sancti Benedicti
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes) followed by the rule of St Benedict. The manuscript is ending with several added notes related to the abbey and its confraternity. In addition to the monks of St Gilles, the necrology mentions Ray...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. 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

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