Isidore of Seville, De Fide Catholica Contra Iudaeos (Book 1); Alcuin of York, Epistula ad Leonem Papam; Alcuin of York, De Fide Sancte et Individue Trinitatis; Alcuin of York, De Anime Ratione (Epistula ad Eulaliam); Alcuin of York, De Virtutibus et Vitiis; Alcuin of York, De Trinitate ad Fredegisum Questiones XXVIII
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This manuscript comprises texts written at different times, ff. 1v-26r was written in the 1st quarter of the 11th century and probably decorated in Canterbury. Alcuin's epistle to Pope Leo III (ff. 27v-28v) and the first part of his De fide sancte et individue Trinitatis (On the faith of the h...
The Book of Job (24-42); Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 17-35); Lanfranc's notes on Moralia in Job
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This manuscript was originally the second volume of a two-volume set containing the book of Job and Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. The first volume of this set was probably Royal MS 13 C IV, which includes the Moralia in Job, books 1-16 but which was written by a different hand. A part of a...
Gregory the Great, Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio; Gregory the Great, Registrum epistolarum
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This manuscript consists of Gregory the Great's Symbolum fidei dictatum a beato Gregorio followed by Gregory the Great's Registrum epistolarum. The Registrum epistolarum (Register of Letters) is a collection of Gregory's letters in 14 books: one for each year of his pontificate. It includes more...
Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum, with Old English glosses; Pauca de vitiis and peccatis (imperfect) with Old English glosses
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This manuscript contains the Liber scintillarum (Book of Sparks): a florilegium of extracts from the Bible and the Church Fathers written around 700 by a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Ligugé, Defensor of Ligugé. It also includes Old English interlinear glosses. The quires containing the Liber...
Fragments of Canon Tables, the First Series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, extracts from Gregory of Tours, Gesta Francorum, and from Sermo de Sabbato Pasche; Gospel of Nicodemus; fragments of Cassiodorus Senator, Expositio Psalmorum
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This volume includes three parts: ff. 2-3 are fragments of canon tables from a seventh- or eighth-century Gospel book, in Latin; ff. 4-218 contain an early copy (possibly written in the 990s) of the first series of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies, in Old English; ff. 219-231 contain twelfth-cent...
Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
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Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Prayers and meditations (the 'Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth')
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The manuscript includes a collection of prayers translated into Latin, French and Italian by Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth when she was twelve years old; preceded by a Latin dedication to Henry VIII (ff. 1r-5r). This preface preface dated 30 December 1545 and addressed from Hertford is t...
Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
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Contents: f. 1r: An added fragment of an ecclesiastical writ in a 16th-century hand, bound upside down. ff. 2r-81v: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi, beginning 'Ad rem his temporibus necessariam'. Imperfect, ending 'in hoc mundo carnalis conuersatio'. Copied in a 12th-cent...
Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Apostles (imperfect)
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This manuscript consists of two distinct parts bound together at an unknown period. The first part (ff. 2r-203v) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and other confraternities including the rule of St Benedict (ff. 74r-93v). Several fo...
Contents: ff. 1r–178v: Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, parts 1 and 3, preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-v), beginning of the prologue: 'In nomine Sancte Trinitatis incipit liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti quem Paterius de opusculis sancti Gregorii pape cum summo studio exce...
