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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 94
Title:: Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates iudaicae; De bello judaico
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is the second volume of a two-volume set containing Flavius Josephus (b. 37, d. 100)'s Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). The other volume has not survived, but would have contained books 1-14 of Josephus’s work. This manuscript contains the last books, 15-20, and include...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 98
Title:: Excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus, De viris illustribus; Prefatory epistle to the Historia Naturalis, Pliny the Elder, Epistula ad Vespasianum; Pliny the Elder, Historia naturalis (books 1-18)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of books 1-18 of Pliny the Elder (b. 23, d. 79)'s Historia naturalis (Natural History), preceded by an excerpt on Pliny the Elder from Suetonius Tranquillus (b. 69, d. 140), De viris illustribus (Concerning illustrious men). The manuscript was probably the first volume o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 125
Title:: Books of Job and Ezra with St Jerome's prologues
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-5r: St Jerome's prologue to the Book of Job, beginning: 'Incipit praefatio Hieronimi. Cogor per singulos scripturae divinae libros'; followed by the capitula of the book of Job (ff. 3v-5r). ff. 5v-51r: The Book of Job, beginning: 'Incipit Liber beati Iob, vir erat in terra hus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 146
Title:: The Syon Additions to the Rule of St Saviour
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the text of a set of additions to the rules compiled for the sisters of the Brigittine abbey of St Saviour, St Mary, and St Bridget of Syon, founded by King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) in 1415. Other surviving versions of the Additions to the Rule include: London, Guildhall...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 153
Title:: Liber Domesday (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains extracts from the Domesday Book, mainly concerning counties in the South-West and Midlands of England. Contents: ff. 2r-5r: Wiltshire. ff. 5r-8r: Dorset. ff. 8v-15v: Somerset. ff. 16r-23r: Devon. ff. 23r-26v: Cornwall. ff. 26v-27v: Middlesex. ff. 27v-31v: Hertfor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 155
Title:: Psalter ('The Eadui Psalter') with partial gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a Psalter including Canticles, hymns, offices, prayers, Old English glosses, and prefatory material. The text on ff. 2r-135r, 171r-190v probably was copied by Eadwig (also spelled 'Eadui') Basan, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury between c. 1012 and 1023, based on compa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 11th century-mid 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 157
Title:: The Book of Psalms, Psalter of the Virgin Mary, and Little Office of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: This English manuscript is an early example of a Psalter with the Hours of the Virgin Mary attached (see Donovan, The de Brailes Hours (1991), p. 201 (no. 2). p. 201). The manuscript’s origin is unknown, but probably has a connection with Oxford since its Calendar contains three feasts of St Fri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 166
Title:: Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts
Scope & Content:: This is a composite medical manuscript made up of two separate sections (ff. 3r-13v and ff. 14r-90) both from the 9th century, bound together at an unknown date. The first section (ff. 3r-13v) contains De Medicamentis (About Remedies) by Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century); the second section ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 173
Title:: Bruno of Segni, De Sacramentis Ecclesiae; collections of patristic and canonical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-22r: A collection of excerpts from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 22r-32r: A collection of excerpts about the baptism of saints from works by Church Fathers and theologians. ff. 32r-51r: A collection of excerpts about the body and blood of Christ and the othe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 213
Title:: A homiletic and theological miscellany, including excerpts from the works of St Gregory the Great, St Augustine, St Jerome, Caesarius of Arles, Fortunatianus of Aquileia and others.
Scope & Content:: This early 9th-century manuscript is a theological florilegium (or collection of extracts and citations) of moral, exegetical and catechetical material taken from various books of the Bible and the writings of several Church Fathers. The separate entries tend to consist of excerpts from various ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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