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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 44
Title:: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Notated antiphon ‘Audite o lucis filie’ from the Epithalamium in the Speculum Virginum; musical notation: neumes on 4-line staves. ff. 1v-129v: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum; this work is in the form of a dialogue between the teacher, a Benedictine named Peregrinus, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 48
Title:: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–174r: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum. Decoration: 1 bas-de-page drawing (f. 168v). Large initials in red, green and/or blue with penwork decoration or pen-flourishing in green (and red) or red (and green) (ff. 2r, 3r, 4r, 20v, 34v, 53v, 84v, 101r, 143v). Smaller and small initia...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 71/1
Title:: Detached leaf from a Gradual
Scope & Content:: This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf from the opening of a large illuminated Gradual, made in Ghent between 1480 and 1483. The Gradual was probably commissioned by Margaret of York (b. 1446, d. 1503), duchess of Burgundy, whose arms (formulated after her marriage in 1468 to Charles t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 97
Title:: Book of payments by the Treasurer of the Household of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–195v: A book of payments by the Treasurer of the King's Household, from Candelmas Day, 29 Henry VIII (1537), to Midsummer Day, 33 Henry VIII (1542).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1537-1542
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 140
Title:: Collection of legendary and devotional texts including The Prick of Conscience, Mandeville's Travels and The Seven Sages of Rome; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Tale of Melibee
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is made up of two distinct structural units joined together. The first part (ff. 1-165) contains a collection of legendary and devotional works in Middle English, including The Prick of Conscience, The Seven Sages of Rome, and Mandeville's Travels. The second part (ff. 166-181)...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 152
Title:: Documents relating to John Fisher and Thomas More
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–313v: A volume of documents relating to John Fisher (c. 1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas More (1478–1535). It includes the original copy of More’s letter to his daughter Margaret of 2 or 3 May 1535. A note records that this manuscript was damaged in a fire at the binders, 10 Ju...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 225
Title:: Herbal
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the Carthusian monastery St Michaelsberg in Mainz contains a short text with dietary guidelines and a popular herbal, describing the medicinal purposes of plants, that was composed by Odo von Meung (fl. c. 1070), a physician and poet, but sometimes was spuriously attributed ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 285
Title:: Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–224r: A collection of Scottish devotional poetry and prose by various authors. ff. 1r–4v: William Dunbar (d. circa 1530), 'The tabill of confessioun', in twenty-one eight-line stanzas. ff. 5v–46v: Walter Kennedy, 'The passioun of Crist', a poem in stanzas of eight lines. A woodcut, repr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Scots
Date Range:: 1st half of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 300
Title:: Formulary of psalms and prayers made by Lord Henry Howard
Scope & Content:: This is a formulary in Latin of psalms and prayers compiled by Lord Henry Howard, from 1604 Earl of Northampton. It is written carefully and neatly in his own hand. The title-page, written in English and in another (early 17th-century hand) on the first folio of the parchment volume, calls it ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1540-1614
Extent:: 1 volume

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