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11. Royal MS 8 B XI

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

12. Royal MS 1 A XVIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 1 A XVIII
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-11v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 12r-66r: The Gospel of St Matthew, preceded by a preface (ff. 12r-13r). ff. 66r-99r: The Gospel of St Mark, preceded by a preface (ff. 66r-67r) and capitula (ff. 67r-68r). ff. 99v-159v: The Gospel of St Luke, preceded by capitula (ff. 99...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

13. Royal MS 17 A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 17 A XVI
Title:
Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
Scope & Content:
An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1420
Extent:

1 volume

14. Royal MS 6 B VII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 6 B VII
Title:
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose); list of Exeter relics
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate (imperfect, missing chapter 39), with Latin and Old English glosses. A list of relics held at Exeter Cathedral was added in a 12th century hand (ff. 54v-55r). Decoration: Historiated initials with foliate decoration (f. 1r) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half 11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

15. Royal MS 14 B XXVI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XXVI
Title:
Expenses of the household departments of Princess Mary
Scope & Content:
The roll contains the household expenses of Princess Mary (the future Mary I, r. 1552-1558), daughter of King Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536). The account lists the expenses of several household departments, comparing the expenditure made in October and other...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 roll

16. Royal MS 14 B III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B III
Title:
Roll of maxims made for Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley
Scope & Content:
A roll of maxims about pride, created for Jane Lumley (1537-78), Baroness Lumley, daughter of Henry FitzAlan (1512-80), 19th earl of Arundel. Monograms JOANNA LVMLEIA. Dated to between Jane’s marriage to John Lumley (d. 1609), 1st Baron Lumley, by 1553 and her death in 1578. A similar roll, po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1553-1578
Extent:

1 roll

17. Royal MS 13 D IX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 D IX
Title:
The Sanctilogium or Speculum legendarum by Gui de Châtres, abbot of St Denis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the collection of saints’ lives known as the Sanctilogium or Speculum legendarum, that Gui de Châtres, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Denis (1326-1342), compiled around 1320 by extending Usuard’s Martyrologium with materials from the Legenda aurea of J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

18. Royal Appendix MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal Appendix MS 56
Title:
16th century compositions for organ, by anonymous authors
Scope & Content:
Organ pieces, written on double staves of 6 or 7 lines each, apparently in England. Anonymous. 1. 'Felix namque.' f. 1b. 2. 'Non expecto.' f. 6b. 3. 'Beata viscera.' f. 7. 4-6. Three pieces without titles. ff. 12b, 13b, 14b. 7. 'Kirie,' 'Christe,' and 'Miserere'; probably from a Mass. ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)

19. Royal MS 12 D XVII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 D XVII
Title:
Bald's Leechbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains texts pertaining to medical remedies, diagnoses, charms, and a prognostic text about the Dog Days (ff. 54v-55v). The text is divided by tables of contents into three books. According to a Latin colophon, the first two books were compiled for a certain Bald by Cild (f. 10...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

20. Royal MS 8 E XV

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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