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MS 41 contains the Old English translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

This manuscript is known as the Samson Pontifical because it contains an added formula for professing obedience in the presence of Samson, bishop of Worcester 1096-1112.

Composite collection from the Abbey Library of St. Gall, including the oldest Vulgate version of the Gospels, fragments of Psalm manuscripts in Latin and in Greek from the 7th and the 10th centuries respectively, and a large number of Irish fragments…

CCCC MS 422 consists of two parts, which were together by the twelfth century. The first, a tenth-century volume, contains two Old English texts about the dialogue between Solomon and Saturn, one in poetry (also found in CCCC MS 41) and one in prose.…

CCCC MS 190 is a very complex and interesting volume, with multiple layers of additions and alterations. It was made over the course of the eleventh century, with at least some parts written at Exeter, where it has later provenance. At its core is a…

The manuscript, consisting of 197 leaves in Bern as well as 24 leaves in Paris (BNF, lat. 7520), is the oldest grammar manuscript from Fleury; it contains an early medieval corpus of Roman grammarians from antiquity and from the early medieval…

Psalter, with prefaces of Jerome and continuous marginal glosses; Brandani monachi oratio de verbo dei ‘quam fecit per michahelem archangelum dei. quando transfretavit septem maria ...’. Psalterium Davidis cum praefationibus Hieronymi et glossa…

Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio; Rhetorica ad Herennium. Macrobii in Somnium Scipionis libri II [u.a.] - BSB Clm 14436

This magnificent manuscript was formerly known as the Canterbury Psalter. It is now named for the scribe, Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury where the Psalter was made. It is an illustrated copy of the Psalms in three Latin versions with…

In CCCC MS 173 is found the Parker Chronicle, one of the most important manuscripts for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon history. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the earliest history written in English, seems to have originated under the impetus of Alfred…