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Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 36
Title:: Collection of Saints' Lives
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains a collection of saints’ lives and lections from saints’ lives. The manuscript was produced at the Augustian Priory of Kirkham in North Yorkshire, in the first or second quarter after its foundation in the 1120s. Its founder, Walter Espec (d. 1153), also foun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Arundel MS 377
Title:: Miscellaneous Astrological texts; Calendar of Saints; Hermann of Reichenau, De Mensura Astrolabii et Ejus Utilitate, cum Tabulis; Ahmad Ibn Muhammed al-Farghānī, Rudamenta Astronomica; Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra, De Tabulis Planetarum; Adelard of Bath, Liber Astrolabi; Roger of Hereford, Astrological Tables; Daniel of Morley, De Naturis Superiorum et Inferiorum; William of Conches, Dragmaticon Philosophiae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of astrological treatises, accompanied by tables and diagrams. ff. 3r-5v: A Calendar of Saints of Ely Cathedral Priory. f. 6r: An anonymous computus text. ff. 6v-15v: Astrological tracts and tables concerning the movement of the sun and the moon, beginn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter 12th century-1st quarter 13th 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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