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1. Arundel MS 225

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

2. Arundel MS 313

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 313
Title:
Collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts from various sources including Avicenna, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Hali-Abbas, Egidius and Raymundus Lullus (Ramon Llull). The manuscript was written in 1519 by the scribe Donnchadh Ó Eichthighern (Donough O'Ahiarn), whose hand also appears in A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1519
Extent:
1 volume

3. Arundel MS 542/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 542/1
Title:
Detached binding formerly attached to Arundel MS 542
Scope & Content:
Detached binding of brown leather, formerly used to bind Arundel MS 542.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

1 detached binding

4. Arundel MS 16

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 16
Title:
Osbern of Canterbury, Vita Sancti Dunstani
Scope & Content:
Osbern, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury, composed this version of the Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan) between c.1089 and c.1093. This is thought to be the earliest of some twenty manuscripts of the text, and it may have been the original Christ Church copy (Alexander, Romanesque...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1090-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Arundel MS 44

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

6. Arundel MS 542

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 542
Title:
Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis)
Scope & Content:
Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis). All of the works now attributed to Severianus are explicitly ascribed to John Chrysostom in the manuscript, with the exception of In pretiosam et vivificam crucem (ff 47r-55v), which is imperfect at the beginning.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

237 folios

7. Arundel MS 543

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 543
Title:
St John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum homiliae
Scope & Content:
St John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum homiliae (TLG 2062.152; PG 57.15; CPG 4424). Imperfect with several lacunae and inc. [ἐπιμε]λοῦμαι. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐστιν (59.3042).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

336 folios

8. Arundel MS 550

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 550
Title:
Notebook of Johannes Cuno
Scope & Content:
Notebook of Johannes Cuno, containing a number of extracts from Greek and Latin authors, notes on grammar and metre, and other items.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c 1506-1508
Extent:

95 folios

9. Arundel MS 71/1

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

10. Arundel MS 403

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 403
Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two fragmentary Latin copies of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. Contents: ff. 1r-10v: First fragment of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, contai...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex