A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
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Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
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Contents: f. 2: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899); f. 3: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60–62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; ff. 4-43: A collection of leaves from manuscripts from the 12th to the 15t...
Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
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Contents: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest ...
Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Contents: f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century; f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v); f. 6...
Contents: Facsimiles of legal, and liturgical manuscripts and engravings, including engravings of King David from Royal MS 15 D iii, f. 268r (f. 45), the Evangelist portraits from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero MS D IV: St Mark, f. 93v, St Luke, f. 137v, St John, f. 209v, St Matthew, f. ...