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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VII
Title:: Bible (1st of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:: This exceptionally large codex is the first of two volumes of the only surviving Bible from late Anglo-Saxon England and the second of only two largely complete, surviving Bibles from England before 1066 (the other being the Codex Amiatinus, now Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Amiatino...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: late 10th century-16th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 1 E VII-VIII
Title:: Bible (2 volumes)
Scope & Content:: These exceptionally large codices form the only surviving Bible from late Anglo-Saxon England and one of only two largely complete, surviving Bibles from England before 1066 (the other being the Codex Amiatinus). In addition to the Old and New Testaments, these volumes include tables of chapters...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-16th century
Extent:: 2 parchment codices

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 977
Title:: Theological Miscellany
Scope & Content:: Quarto manuscript volume. Contents: f. 1*: Notes on the Book of Genesis. ff. 1-4: 'Notes out of Mr Gales Lectures in the chappell on Rogers 39 articles. ff. 4-5: Mr Conant's lectures on the 39 articles. ff. 6-19: Excerpts from, and commentary on, a work by Konrad Pellikan on 15 chapters of the ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1615
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2815
Title:: Bible, including Psalms and a Gospel Harmony; Interpretation of Hebrew Names; Petrus Cantor, Distinctiones
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-230r: Bible including Psalms and a Gospel Harmony (ff. 169r-189r), imperfect at the beginning due to loss of leaves (Genesis, Exodus and most of Leviticus are lacking). ff. 230r-231v: 'Expositio canonis misse' (beginning 'In virtute sancte crucis immo sacramento sacrosancto ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15277
Title:: Old Testament Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua (the 'Paduan Bible Picture Book')
Scope & Content:: Contents: A cycle of miniatures illustrating the Old Testament, from Exodus I:11 to the end of the Book of Joshua, with short captions in Italian. All pages are fully illuminated, with the exception of 12 text pages (ff. 19v, 20r, 24v-30r, 56v-57v), one half text page (f. 24r) and blank folios...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: A parchment codex, 80 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54231
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Scope & Content:: MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. V. Glossed Pentateuch, written in England; mid 13th cent. Latin. Minor loss of text after the final folio. Genesis - Leviticus (ff. 1-258v) bear numerous contemporary marginal notes and corrections in a single cursive hand, and later medieval notes in pencil. At the end of m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11551
Title:: Bible
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a bilingual Coptic-Arabic recension of the Bible (Pentateuch, Minor Prophets, and New Testament) in 41 volumes. Content: It initially contained the entire Bible and was commissioned by the French Orientalist J.-J. Marcel during Napoleon’s occupation of Egypt. It was repo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Coptic, English, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1776-1800
Extent:: Codex, 41 volumes, 3022 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 46
Title:: Glossed Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-v: Capitula referring to quires and folios of the manuscript. ff. 3r-4r: Preface on the Gospels, excerpted from Genesis, beginning: ‘Fecit deus duo magna luminaria’ ff. 4r-6v: Glossed prologue to the Gospel of St Matthew, beginning: ‘Mattheus ex iudea sicut in ordine’; gloss on the pro...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 2847
Title:: Bible (without the Psalms)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-311v: Bible (without the Psalms), imperfect; missing the beginning of the first prologue to Genesis. Verse divisions marked in red in the text and noted between the columns, The manuscript contains later additions: Corrections to the text throughout: added in the 13th or 14th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 13th century-3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15248
Title:: Bible moralisée
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bible moralisée, a picture Bible containing excerpts from the Old and New Testaments, with a moralising commentary, ff. 1r-3v: Preface, incipit, 'Comment la sainte scripture se puet exposer en quatre manieres'; ff. 3v-15v: Preface, incipit 'Cy commence la declaration de plusieurs ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1455
Extent:: Parchment codex

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