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1. Royal MS 15 B XXII

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Royal MS 15 B XXII
Title:
Ælfric, Grammar
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2v–3r: Greek numbers and alphabets. ff. 5r–70v: Ælfric, Grammar, ‘Incipit praefatio huius liber. Ego Ælfricus ut minus sapiens has excerptiones … leoðcræfte’ (ends imperfectly). Old English glosses are written interlinear above Latin phrases. f. 71r: Remainder of the text copied...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Royal MS 2 A XX

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Royal MS 2 A XX
Title:
Royal Prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a decorated prayerbook with extracts from the Gospels, liturgy, apocrypha, and glosses. Its text and decoration link it to a group of Southumbrian prayerbooks known as the 'Tiberius Group'. In particular, its script and contents are related to those in Harley MS 2965 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
late 8th to 12th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

3. Royal MS 5 F III

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 5 F III
Title:
Aldhelm, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early, imperfect copy of the prose version of Aldhelm's De virginitate, with foliate and interlace initials and later, eleventh-century glosses. An imperfect table of chapters (f. 1 begins at chapter 13) and a prologue precede the text. Chapter 39 is omitted both in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c. 900
Extent:
1 parchment codex

4. Royal MS 15 C X

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 15 C X
Title:
Vita Statii and Statius' Thebais
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a brief biographical notice of Statius and Statius' Thebais. Decoration: gold initials (oxidized to green) of varying sizes and rubrics throughout. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

5. Royal MS 2 B V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 B V
Title:
The Royal Psalter
Scope & Content:
The main text of the this manuscript consists of a Psalter, in the Roman version, with 12 canticles and some Old English glosses in the same hand as the manuscript. Between the late 10th and mid-11th century, further prayers, proverbs, and notes on topics ranging from Christ's incarnation to the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-mid-11th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

6. Royal MS 13 C V

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 C V
Title:
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. It is missing the final leaf of the text. Folios 1-2 are mid-11th century supply leaves. Folio 225 is a later medieval flyleaf, formed of a fragment which includes part of 2 Kings, starting at 2 Kings 23:3. Decora...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

7. Royal MS 2 D XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 2 D XIII
Title:
Apocalypse in Latin and Anglo-Norman French
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-51v: Apocalypse (Revelation); the upper half of each folio contains a miniature and beneath is the accompanying text in Latin, followed by the parallel commentary in Anglo-Norman French verse. Decoration: 102 half-page miniatures in drawings tinted with colours and silver, appearing on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

8. Royal MS 1 D III

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Royal MS 1 D III
Title:
Gospels, with canon tables and the Exultet
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–7r: Eusebian canon tables ff. 7v–8r: ‘Exultet’, added in a later hand (an English Caroline minuscule of the end of the 11th century). Hartzell, Catalogue (2006), no. 169 identifies it as the ‘Norman’ version of the melody, written in Anglo-Norman neumes. Omits section 7. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

9. Royal MS 13 A XV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 13 A XV
Title:
Felix's Vita S Guthlaci
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Felix's life of St Guthlac (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 3723) without its prologue. Latin and Old English glosses and corrections were added later, in the 11th century. Decoration: Large initials throughout.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of 10th century
Extent:
1 parchment codex

10. Royal MS 14 B XIX

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 14 B XIX
Title:
Expenses of Princess Mary’s household
Scope & Content:
This 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 covers a one-and-a-half-year period from 1 July 1525 to 31 December 1526 (17 and 18 Henry VIII), when M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1526
Extent:
1 roll

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