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1. Add MS 11847

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Title:
Psalter ('The Alheide Psalter')
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This manuscript is known as the 'Alheide Psalter' after its scribe, who identifies herself as 'Alheide' in a colophon (f. 186r). It was probably produced in a convent in central Germany, perhaps Thuringia, for an aristocratic female patron (see Kaufmann, 'The Alheide Psalter' (2010), pp. 125–139...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 11849

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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

3. Add MS 11850

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Title:
The Four Gospels ('The Préaux Gospels')
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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

4. Add MS 11853

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Title:
The Pauline Epistles with Gloss
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This 12th-century manuscript contains the Pauline Epistles with the Gloss by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. c. 1076, d. 1154), biblical commentator and theologian, bishop of Poitiers (f. 193r: ‘Expliciunt Glosæ Magistri Gisleberti pictavensis episcopi super Epistolas pauli’). The text has been written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 11870

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Title:
Symeon Metaphrastes, Saints' Lives for the month of September
Scope & Content:
Symeon Metaphrastes, Saints' Lives for the month of September
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
273 folios

6. Add MS 11873

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Title:
Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione
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This manuscript contains three theological works by Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 530). It was copied at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny, where it may have remained in its library until the monastery was destroyed by French Revolutionary forces in 1790. Contents: ff. 1r-58v: Augustine of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Add MS 11878

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced in Luxeuil and contains book 23 and the first part of book 24 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. It is a fragment from a larger volume. Other fragments from the original volume are now Add MS 41567 (f. 118); Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. ms. 2243 (ff. 1-2); Paris, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 11943

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Title:
Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
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Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Add MS 11983

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Title:
Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1075-c 1125
Extent:
A parchment codex

10. Add MS 12042

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Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-32v: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 32v-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun (or 'Jehan Chopinel'), composed between 1269 and 1278, begins with the rubric, 'Encor des co[m]pla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 166 folios

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