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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A VII
Title:: Collection of Latin poetry and fables, including Statius, Achilleis, and Claudian, De raptu Proserpinae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of Latin works, probably arranged as part of a school curriculum. They include the unfinished epic poem, the Achilleid, by the Greco-Roman author Publius Papinius Statius (b. c. 45, d. c. 96); a popular collection of proverbial wisdom, known as the Catonis D...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 10 A XIII
Title:: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of the Expositio in Regulam Sancti Benedicti, a commentary on the Rule of St Benedict composed by Smaragdus (b. c. 760, d. c. 830), abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Mihiel in Lotharingia, soon after the Synod of Aachen (816-817) and St Benedict of Aniane's Concord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 D VII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: Content: The Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun at f. 25r; 'Et si lay je perdu espoir'.. ff. 1r-128r: beginning, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes/ Na se flabes non et menconges/ Mus on puet telz songes songes/ Qui ne sont mie mencongier', ending: 'Ainsi oi la ro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 128 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 6 A VII
Title:: John the Deacon, Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni (Life of St Gregory the Great) by John the Deacon of Rome (b. c. 825; d. 880). Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A preface for the Vita Sancti Gregorii Magni, beginning: 'Incipit Vita Gregorii papae urbis Romae. Beatissimo ac felicissimo domino Iohann...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A IX
Title:: Gossuin de Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:: Contents: Gossuin (Gautier) de Metz (c. 1245), L'Image du monde, a French version of De imagine mundi by Honorius of Autun. ff. 1r-3v: Table of chapters; ff. 4r-4v: Prologue, This manuscript contains a unique prologue linking it to Caxton's printed editions and stating 'ce p[rese]nt volume ap...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: c 1464
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 B XIX
Title:: Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
Scope & Content:: A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 8 E IV
Title:: Magnus Felix Ennodius, Dictiones, Epistule and extracts from Opuscula; Epistles
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript contains the Epistles of Ennodius (d. 521) from book 1 to 9 and some extracts from the Opuscula and the Dictiones. The texts are largely corrupted and abridged. The manuscript also includes a series of anonymous epistles (ff. 50r-55r), perhaps in order to provide examp...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 A XVIII
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose (abridged version)
Scope & Content:: Content: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris continued by Jean de Meun. This manuscript contains an abridged version of the romance. The text is only 14,000 lines long, with omissions noted. For example on f. 5, rubrics marked by paraphs summarise the narrative omitted, e.g., '[P] Oyseuse, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 94 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 5 E XIII
Title:: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica; Sermons; Cyprian, Ad Quirinum testimonia; Excerpts from the canonical collection: 'Collection Hibernensis'; De remediis peccatorum; A fragment of the apocryphal Book of Enoch; De vindictis magnis magnorum peccatorum; Gospel of Nicodemus (incomplete).
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-9r: Pseudo Jerome, Canon in Ebreica: '[Can]on in ebreica, regula in greca, [ae]quitas [in lati]na'. ff. 9r-15v: Sermons: 'De reddendis decimis et primitivis que dominus precepit. Primus homo qui dedit primam et primitivam Domino suo pro suo peccato...-... et de omnibus insidis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 9th century
Extent:: Parchment codex, 100 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 2 A XVI
Title:: Psalter ('The Psalter of Henry VIII')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes a Psalter with three Canticles, known as the Psalter of Henry VIII. The text is preceded by the dedicatory letter by Jean Mallard (ff. 1v-2v), who wrote and probably illuminated the manuscript, incipit: 'Regium istud Davidis'. Mallard's other works include Royal MS 7 D XI...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1540-1541
Extent:: 176 folios.

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