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941. Egerton MS 2901

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2901
Title:
Collectio Francofortana with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an anonymous collection of papal decretals known as Collectio Francofortana (The Frankfurt Collection) with marginal glosses. This is one of the only four surviving copies of the Collectio Francofortana. The manuscript was produced either in France or England, but it was...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

942. Egerton MS 2951

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2951
Title:
Robert Partes, Poems; Peter Riga, Floridus aspectus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the unique witness of the poems of Robert Partes (fl. c 1170), and also includes the collection of short poems, known as the Floridus Aspectus (Appearance of Flowers), by Peter Riga(b. c 1140, d. 1209). The volume was probably produced in the Benedictine abbey of Reading, wher...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

943. Egerton MS 2951/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2951/1
Title:
Medieval binding
Scope & Content:
Contents: Former covers of Egerton MS 2951, now kept separately. The covers consist of a folded bifolium from a 14th-century manuscript of the Gospel of St John; the bifolium contains chapters 9-10 with glosses. Decoration: Large initial in blue with red penwork decoration. Paraphs in blue o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:
Former covers of Egerton MS 2951

944. Egerton MS 3031

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3031
Title:
The Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Cartulary of Reading Abbey, including, among other miscellaneous items, a list of its books and those of its cell at Leominster. Produced at Reading in the early 1190s, the manuscript has later additions up to the reign of Henry III (r. 1216-1272). Contents: ff. 3r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1190-1199
Extent:

A parchment codex

945. Egerton MS 3038

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3038
Title:
THE TWO final chapters, numbered 10 and 11, of Persuasion by Jane Austen, as originally composed. Holograph. The novel, as published posthumously (2 vols., 1818), retains the final chapter, renumbered 12 but discards the other in favour of a new chapter 10 and a partly new chapter 11, the latter incorporating with slight alterations the section of the old chapter 10 from "that as to character" to "motive for remaining here" (ff. 6 b-8 b, 15-16, corresponding to vol. 2, pp. 283-292, of the fi...
Scope & Content:
Fiction: Two chapters of Persuasion by Jane Austen: 1816.: Autogr. Jane Austen, novelist: Two chapters of Persuasion: 1816.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1816-18 Jul 1816
Extent:
1 item

946. Egerton MS 3055

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3055
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum; Ausonius, Caesares
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De vita Caesarum (The Twelve Caesars) by the Roman historian Suetonius (b.c. 69 , d. c. 122) and the poem Caesares (Emperors) by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 395). Contents: f. 1v: Epitaphs in couplets dedicated to Julius Caesar, to the Roman emperor Nero, to a ‘certain ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

947. Egerton MS 3089

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3089
Title:
Gregory the Great, Dialogi
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the four books of the Dialogi (Dialogues) written in 593-594 by Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604), commonly known as St Gregory the Great. The Dialogues discuss the miracles and prophecies of holy men in 6th-century Italy, especially those of Benedict of Nursi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

948. Egerton MS 3127

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3127
Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This item comprises 2 parchment leaves from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’,of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the time of F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

2 parchment leaves, bound in an album

949. Egerton MS 3314

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3314
Title:
Computational and astronomical notes; prognostics
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century scientific manuscript originally formed a single volume with Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff. 120-53 (see Willetts, 'A Reconstructed Astronomical Manuscript from Christ Church Library, Canterbury' (1965), 22-30). It contains a large collection of computistical, astronomical, and pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

950. Egerton MS 3512

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3512
Title:
Thomas Tallis: motet 'Spem in alium'
Scope & Content:
In forty parts with accompaniment for a thorough bass. Adapted to English words 'Sing and glorifie heavens high Majesty' in honour of Princes Henry and Charles, sons of James I. Arranged in full score in five groupings of eight similar voices (and not in choirs of five different voices) with the...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1610
Extent:
1 volume (ii + 6 folios)

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