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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16961
Title:: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:: 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

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 16974
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew (books I-IV); Eusebius of Caesara, Chronicon (with additions); Stephen of Saint Trond, Miracula Sancti Trudonis; Passio Sancti Gorgonii; Passio Sancti Cornelii Pape
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), the Chronicon (Chronicle), a universal history written by Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), the Miracula Sancti Trudonis (Miracles of St Trond) by Stephen of Saint-Trond (fl. c. 1050), and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century-4th quarter of the 11th 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 16984
Title:: Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: This 12th-century manuscript consists of two treatises dedicated to the art of rhetoric. Although they were composed by different authors, the two rhetorical works are closely related. The De Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17012
Title:: Books of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Book of Joan Vaux')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a Book of Hours that was made in Antwerp around the turn of the 16th century. It subsequently came to England, where it came into the posession of a lady of the Tudor court, possibly Joan Vaux (b. c. 1463, d. 1538), Lady Governess to the Princesses Margaret (b. 1489, d. 1541) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17333
Title:: Apocalypse (the 'Val-Dieu Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:: Content: Apocalypse (Revelation), in parallel Latin and French. Latin version: ff. 1r-47v: 'Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi quam dedit illi Deus palam facere servis suis'. Ending: ' Et fratrum tuorum prophetarum et corum qui servant verba libri huius. Deus adora'. Old French version: ff. 1r-47v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1320-1330
Extent:: A parchment codex, 47 folios.

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17399
Title:: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée (ff. 2r-3v); Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose with glosses (ff. 3v-58v).
Scope & Content:: Contents: Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose, with prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2r-3v: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Paul lapostre dit'. Ending: 'Sique len peut chascune partie par soy seurement entendre et dire. Et dit ainsi'. ff. 3v-58v: Apoca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 58 folios.

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