Archive Reference (shelfmark): Royal MS 1 A I-20 E X / Digitised Content Platform: BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 D XIII
Title:: Apocalypse in Latin and Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-51v: Apocalypse (Revelation); the upper half of each folio contains a miniature and beneath is the accompanying text in Latin, followed by the parallel commentary in Anglo-Norman French verse. Decoration: 102 half-page miniatures in drawings tinted with colours and silver, appearing on...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 E XIII
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is bound together with Royal MS 2 E XIV. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Prologue of Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning: 'Incipit Breviarium Sancti Hieronimi praesbiteri in psalterio. Proxime cum Origenis psalterium, quod encheridion ille vocab...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 E XIV
Title:: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is bound with Royal 2 MS E XIII. Contents: ff. 1r-136r: Pseudo-Jerome, Breviarium in psalmos (Short Commentary on the Psalms), beginning at the end of Psalms 50 'Vel multi habent cor contricum' to Psalm 100. Decoration: Small initials in red, some with penwork decoration, with...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 2 E XIII-XIV

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 A XIV
Title:: Fragment of a Missal; collection of St Jerome's and Pseudo-Jerome's works on music and a homily of Origen; fragment of Felix's Vita Guthlaci
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three parts: ff. 1*-2*: a fragment of a late ninth- or early tenth-century Continental Missal. For technical reasons, these folios are labelled flyleaf 1c and flyleaf 2 in the viewer to enable them to display in the correct order; ff. 1r-106v: a mid-10th century coll...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 8th to middle of 10th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 D II
Title:: Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1225
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 E IX
Title:: Peter Lombard, Magna glossatura in epistolas Pauli
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of Peter Lombard (b. c. 1100, d. 1160)'s Gloss on the Pauline Epistles or Magna glossatura. Peter Lombard developed the text in Paris in the second quarter of the 12th century during his teaching activities. It became one of the required readings of the faculty of Theolo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 B XV
Title:: Augustine, Enchiridion; Autpert Ambrose, Liber de Conflictu Virtutum et Vitiorum; John Chrysostom, De Muliere Chananea sub Figura Persecutionis; Lectiones de Miraculis Sancti Lethardi Episcopi; Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
Scope & Content:: This composite manuscript contains four parts (ff. i recto-48v [Part 1]; ff. 49r-56v [Part 2]; 57r-64v [Part 3]; and 65r-133v [Part 4]) that were produced between the 4th quarter of the 11th century and the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (see 'Provenance' for the dating of the separate parts). ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XI
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XIII
Title:: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica; Sermons; Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia; Excerpts from the canonical collection: 'Collection Hibernensis'; De remediis peccatorum; A fragment of the apocryphal Book of Enoch; De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum; Gospel of Nicodemus (incomplete).
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica: '[Can]on in ebreica, regula in greca, [ae]quitas [in lati]na'. ff. 9r-15v: Sermons: 'De reddendis decimis et primitivis que dominus precepit. Primus homo qui dedit primam et primitivam Domino suo pro suo peccato...-... et de omnibus insidis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 100 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 F III
Title:: Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c. 900
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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