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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D II
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D X
Title:: Prayers and meditations (the 'Prayerbook of Princess Elizabeth')
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1545
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D XXIV
Title:: Guitmund of Aversa, De Corporis et Sanguinis Christi; Aldhelm, De Virginitate; Aldhelm, Epistola ad Ehfridum; fragment of a 16th-century writ
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-17th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI
Title:: 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)
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 F VI
Title:: Paterius, Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 F VIII
Title:: Philosophical works and fragments, chiefly by Roger Bacon
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 B XI
Title:: Paschasius Radbertus, Liber de corpore et sanguine domini
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 C III
Title:: 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.
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 120 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 E IV
Title:: Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 E XV
Title:: Alcuin of York, Epistulae
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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