A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
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Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
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Contents: f. 2: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899); f. 3: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60–62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; ff. 4-43: A collection of leaves from manuscripts from the 12th to the 15t...
Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
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Contents: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest ...
Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Contents: f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century; f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v); f. 6...
Contents: Facsimiles of legal, and liturgical manuscripts and engravings, including engravings of King David from Royal MS 15 D iii, f. 268r (f. 45), the Evangelist portraits from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero MS D IV: St Mark, f. 93v, St Luke, f. 137v, St John, f. 209v, St Matthew, f. ...
GIBBON PAPERS. Vol. I. Six autobiographical sketches by Edward Gibbon, all holograph, being the materials from which Lord Sheffield arranged the "Memoirs" as published in the Miscellaneous Works (quarto ed., 1796, vol. i., octavo ed., with further extracts, 1814, vol. i.). The six sketches are m...