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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11849
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of a 9th-century Gospel book produced perhaps in Tours in the Franco-Saxon style. It was copied by the same scribe who wrote Paris, BnF, MS lat. 267 from the school of Tours (see Rand, 'Franco-Saxon Ornamentation in a Book of Tours' (1929), 214-215). The manuscript incl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11850
Title:: The Four Gospels ('The Préaux Gospels')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2v-4r: Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum papam (St Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning: 'Novum opus me facere cogis'. ff. 4r-v: Pseudo-Jerome, Epistula ad Damasum (Pseudo-Jerome's Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning: 'Sciendum etiam nequem ignarum'. ff. 4v-6r: Jerome, Prologu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15304
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-3v: The Eusebian Canon tables, (incomplete, containing only the titles). ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), Epistula ad Damasum (The Letter of Jerome to Damasus), beginning: 'Novum opus facere me cogis'. ff. 5r-7r: St Jerome, Prologus quattuor evangelium ex commentario Hi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15722
Title:: Liturgical hymns and sermons
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a commentary on the penitential Psalms (ff. 1r-35r), dated to 1142 (f. 35r: ‘·cus·xlus·iius’), and a collection of sermons and hymns (ff. 36r-75v), that originate from the first quarter of the thirteenth century. Both parts were written at the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16606
Title:: Gregorius the Great, Dialogi; Ephraim the Syrian, Sermons
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot was written during the abbacy of Erlebald (1158-1192) or Gerard (1191-1210). The manuscript originally contained Gregory the Great’s Dialogi (Dialogues), a collection of sermons by Ephraim the Syrian (b. c. 306, d. 373), but a number of shor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century - 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16918
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16963
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16964
Title:: John Cassian, De Institutiones Coenobiorum; Collationes Sanctum Patrum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is made out of two parts (part 1: ff. 1-167; part 2: ff. 168-248) that were produced separately at the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia) in the last quarter of the 12th century and were joined there as well. The resulting manuscript contains complete copies of De Instituti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16979
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17392
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-229v: Psalter, with interlinear and marginal glosses embedding extracts from the Parva glossatura (The Small Gloss) of Anselm of Laon (b. 1050, d. 1117) and his school; followed by Canticles (ff. 152r-229v), beginning of Psalms: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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