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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 4 D II
Title:: Gospel of St Mark with the Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a set of glossed Gospels; other manuscripts are Royal 4 D. i and Royal 4 D. iii (St Matthew and St John). The fourth volume that would have included the gloss for St Luke is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-62r: Gospel of St Mark, with the Glossa Ordinaria. De...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1175-c 1225
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 18 E V
Title:: Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Histoire tripartite or Chronique de Baudouin d'Avennes, a compilation of ancient history also known as Le trésor des histoires or Le trésor de sapience, consisting of: ff. 1r-19r: Table of Chapters; f. 20r: Prologue; ff. 21r-390r: Histoire tripartite in 368 chapters, up to the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 1473 to 1479
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 C III
Title:: Pseudo Jerome, De diversis generibus musicorum; Exposition of the Mass; Theodulf of Orleans, De ordine baptismi; De baptismo, commentary on words of the baptismal office; De fide partly from Gennadius of Marseille, Liber sive diffinitio ecclesiasticorum dogmatum explanation of terms connected with baptism; Questions and answers connected to baptism; Introduction of Alcuin's letter to Odoinus (Epist. cxxxiv); Ordo Romanus, exposition on the mass; Augustine, De magistro.
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: a parchment flyleaf with a table of contents by a cursive 17th century hand.. Above it, the first five letters of the alphabet as a pen trial, in a 12th-13th centuries-hand; ff. 2r-6v: Pseudo Jerome, De diversis generibus musicorum (the first words are missing). Beginning: ' t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 120 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 10 A XIII/1
Title:: Miniature of St Dunstan as a bishop
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is part of Royal MS 10 A XIII, now kept separately. Contents and Decoration: A prefatory miniature of St Dunstan (f. 2) is painted on a singleton and is now kept separately from the manuscript containing Smaragdus, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti and mounted in double-sid...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 B VI
Title:: Genealogical roll of the kings of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England from 1272, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with royal portraits in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary. Incipit: 'Par ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:: c 1300-c 1340
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XVI
Title:: Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
Scope & Content:: Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (36 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 E VI
Title:: Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Apostles (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of two distinct parts bound together at an unknown period. The first part (ff. 2r-203v) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and other confraternities including the rule of St Benedict (ff. 74r-93v). Several fo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XI
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the De laudibus virginitatis (On the Praise of Virginity) a didactic work in 60 chapters extolling virginity, composed by Aldhelm of Sherborne (d. 709). Two leaves (ff. 116-117) have been replaced in the 11th century and now function as flyleaves. Contents: ff. 3r-7v:...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 13 A X
Title:: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii; Passio Sancti Albani; Vita Sancti Runwoldi; Bili of Aleth, Vita Sancti Machuti; Homelia in natale Sancti Machutis; Eutropius, Breviarium Historiae Romanae (fragment).
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-62; 63-103) probably bound together in the early modern period (see Provenance). Part one is from the 4th quarter of 12th century. ff. 1r-53r: Vita Sancti Johannis Eleemosynarii (Life of St Johannes Eleemosynarius). ff. 53r-55v: Passio ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 F VIII
Title:: Philosophical works and fragments, chiefly by Roger Bacon
Scope & Content:: This manuscript, containing philosophical and mathematical treatises chiefly by Roger Bacon (b. c. 1220, d. c. 1292), is thought to be the earliest copy of several of Bacon's texts (including the De multiplicatione specierum) and was most likely produced in Oxford in the last quarter of the thir...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex.

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