Philosophical works and fragments, chiefly by Roger Bacon
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This manuscript, containing philosophical and mathematical treatises chiefly by Roger Bacon (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1292), is thought to be the earliest copy of several of Bacon's texts (including the De multiplicatione specierum) and was most likely produced in Oxford in the last quarter of the thir...
Paschasius Radbertus, Liber de corpore et sanguine domini
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Contents: ff. 1r–143r: Paschasius Radbertus, Liber de corpore et sanguine domini, ‘Paschasius radbertus placido suo salutem. Dilectissimo filio et uice christi… ut ad illa resurrectionis gaudia quantotius venire valeamus. Explicit liber de corpore domini quem ratbertus abba composuit’. ff. 143...
Pseudo Jerome, De diversis generibus musicorum; Exposition of the Mass; Theodulf of Orleans, De ordine baptismi; De baptismo, commentary on words of the baptismal office; De fide partly from Gennadius of Marseille, Liber sive diffinitio ecclesiasticorum dogmatum explanation of terms connected with baptism; Questions and answers connected to baptism; Introduction of Alcuin's letter to Odoinus (Epist. cxxxiv); Ordo Romanus, exposition on the mass; Augustine, De magistro.
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Contents: f. 1v: a parchment flyleaf with a table of contents by a cursive 17th century hand.. Above it, the first five letters of the alphabet as a pen trial, in a 12th-13th centuries-hand; ff. 2r-6v: Pseudo Jerome, De diversis generibus musicorum (the first words are missing). Beginning: ' t...
Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
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Contents: This manuscript contains the Epistles of Ennodius (d. 521) from book 1 to 9 and some extracts from the Opuscula and the Dictiones. The texts are largely corrupted and abridged. The manuscript also includes a series of anonymous epistles (ff. 50r-55r), perhaps in order to provide examp...
This 9th-century manuscript consists of a collection of 66 letters by Alcuin of York (d. 804). Its contents are similar to those of St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 271. Contents: ff. 1v-80v: Alcuin, Epistulae (Letters).A collection of 66 letters, preceded by capitula (ff. 1v-2v), beginning w...
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti
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This manuscript consists of the Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti, a commentary on the Rule of St Benedict composed by Smaragdus (b. c. 760, d. c. 830), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Mihiel in Lotharingia, soon after the Synod of Aachen (816-817) and St Benedict of Aniane's Concord...
This manuscript is part of Royal MS 10 A XIII, now kept separately. Contents and Decoration: A prefatory miniature of St Dunstan (f. 2) is painted on a singleton and is now kept separately from the manuscript containing Smaragdus, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti and mounted in double-sid...
Gratian's Decretum, with the Glossa ordinaria of Bartholomew of Brescia
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This manuscript contains a thirteenth-century copy of Gratian's Decretum, a comprehensive compilation of canon law that includes decisions of Church councils, papal bulls, and excerpts from the Fathers of the Church, which was first composed in Bologna between 1139 and 1158. In addition to the D...
A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
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Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Julian of Toledo's Prognosticon futuri saeculi, with Latin glosses and an Old English gloss; riddles by various authors, including Aldhelm, Symphosius, Eusebius, and Tatwine, with Latin and Old English glosses; Pseudo-Smaragdus, Opus monitorium and monitory poems; Versus cuiusdam Scotti de alphabeto
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This manuscript contains a collection of texts, especially riddles, all copied and decorated in Southern England (possibly at Christ Church, Canterbury) in the late 10th or early 11th century. It includes: f. 1r: blank apart from some library numbers and markings; ff. 1v-79v: Julian of Toledo'...
