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MS. Ashmole 342

Contents:
Composite manuscript: prognostication, astronomy, medicine, etc., in Latin, Middle English and French; England (?), 13th-15th…

MS. Ashmole 369

Contents:
Terence, etc. — 15th century
Astrological treatises — 15th century
Alcabitius, Zahel, etc. — 13th century
Mathematica Alexandri — 13th century, late
Alkindus — 13th century, late
Albumasar, Albohali — 13th century
Albumasar — 14th century, early
Astrological treatises, canons and figures — 14th century or 15th century
Thomas Aquinas, etc. — 15th century

MS. Barlow 49

Contents:
Robert Grosseteste — 15th century; English
Register of documents relating to the manor of Faringdon in Berkshire — c. 1300 (?) (after 1275; Hockey, p. 8)); English
Cartulary of the college of Holy Trinity, Pontefract — c. 1500; English

MS. Bodl. 242

Contents:
Chartulary of Langley Abbey, Norfolk with 14th-, 15th- and early 16th century additions — 13th century, end; additions to 16th century, early; English

MS. Bodl. 429

Contents:
Franciscus de Mayronis, etc. — 15th century, first half

MS. Bodl. 563

Contents:
Nicholas de Byard — 14th century, first half; England or France
Index of subjects to a theological treatise — 1455; England, Oxford (?)
Thomas the Cistercian, etc. — 13th century, first half; England or France

MS. Bodl. 833

Contents:
William of Peterborough, etc. — 13th century, first half

MS. Bodl. 859

Contents:
Gilbert Stone, canon of Wells — 15th century, first quarter; English
John Bromyard, etc. — 15th century, first quarter; English
Paschasius Radbertus, Augustine, etc. — 15th century, first quarter; English
Sermons on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary — 15th century, first quarter; English
Sermons and notes — 15th century, first quarter; English
Untitled work or fragment — c. 1300; English

MS. Bodl. 975

Contents:
Gregory IX — 13th century, late
Liber Sextus Decretalium — 14th century
Constitutiones Clementinae — 15th century

Brasenose College MS. 57

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Canon. Liturg. 356

Contents:
Secular Psalter with Antiphons; Italy, Pavia (?), late 13th or early 14th century, and 15th century, first quarter

Christ Church MS. 343

Contents:
Cartulary of Oseney Abbey; England (Oxford), s. xiiiex (perhaps 1280 × 1284), with additions s. xiiiex-s. xvi

Christ Church MS. 378

Contents:
‘The Book of Orts’

Dep. e. 50

Contents:
Box of deeds — 12th century – 19th century; English, French

MS. Digby 33

Contents:
Thomas of Ireland, Walter Hilton — 15th century, beginning
Bernard of Clairvaux — 13th century, beginning
Ps.-Macarius, Guillaume Perault, etc. — 12th century
Treatise on contemplation — 13th century
Alexander of Ashby — 14th century, second half; English
Anselm — 12th century

MS. Digby 37

Contents:
Urso of Calabria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, etc. — 14th century; English
Thomas à Kempis — c. 1450; English
Ps.-John Duns Scotus — 15th century; English
Ps.-Cicero — 13th century, beginning; English
Alexander Nequam — 13th century, beginning; added decoration, 14th century (?); English
Ecclesiastical constitutions (English), c. 1225 — 13th century, end

MS. Digby 41

Contents:
Medical recipes, Friar Daw's Reply, etc. — 15th century; English
Alanus de Insulis — 12th century, end; English
Astronomical calendar including tables of Nicholas of Lynn — 14th century, end (after 1387); English
Ecclestiastical notes partly relating to Durham Cathedral — 12th century – 14th century (?); English
Robert Grosseteste (?) — 15th century; English
Fulgentius — 15th century; English

MS. Digby 67

Contents:
Richard of Wallingford, etc. — 15th century (?)
Astrological treatises — 15th century (?)
Dietary, Scientific texts — 15th century (?)
Treatises on calendar, Arithmetical treatise — 12th century
Geoffrey of Monmouth — 13th century, beginning
Walter Map, etc. — 12th century, end
Albertus Magnus, etc. — 14th century; Multiple places of origin
Roger Bacon — 13th century

MS. Digby 104

Contents:
Robert Grosseteste (?) — 13th century, middle; English
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Alanus de Insulis — 13th century, beginning
Alexander de Villa Dei, etc. — 14th century
Astrological and historical notes — 15th century, beginning
Alhazen, etc. — 13th century
Astrological treatises, Treatise on geomancy — 14th century
Adam Marsh — 13th century
Walter Burley, Robert Grosseteste, etc. — 14th century
Bernard de Gordon — 14th century
Matthew of Vendome, Hugh of St.-Victor, etc. — 13th century, beginning
John of Garland, etc. — 13th century, beginning
Treatise on weather, Library catalogue of Coventry cathedral priory, etc. — 13th century; English, Coventry
William de Conches — 13th century

MS. Digby 172

Contents:
Walter Burley — 14th century; English
William of St Albans — 15th century; English
Life of St. Catherine of Sweden, Life of St. Petrus Olavi — 1427–1451; English
Treatises on the Virgin Mary — 13th century; English
Hugo de Folieto — 13th century, second half; English
Roger of Caen, Aesop, etc. — 14th century; English
Commentary on Sidonius, Epistles — 13th century, early; English
Exempla — 13th century, early; English

MS. Digby 229

Contents:
Bible, Epistle and Gospel list — 13th century, second quarter; additions, 13th – 15th century; English

MS. Dodsw. 76

Contents:
Charters and documents mostly relating to religious houses — 12th century – 15th century; mostly English

MS. Don. c. 168

Contents:
Deeds relating to Windrush, Gloucestershire — Multiple dates; English

MS. Douce d. 5

Contents:
Untitled works or fragments — 12th century – 19th century

MS. Gough Gen. Top. 37

Contents:
Fragments by, or owned by, Gough, 13th century - 18th century

Hertford College MS. 41

Contents:
Fragments of manuscripts and covers removed from bindings.

MS. Lat. bib. b. 1

Contents:
Guardbook of biblical fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. a. 6

Contents:
Paulus Diaconus — 12th century, end; Austrian, Salzburg (?)
Antiphonal — 12th century, first half; German
Missal, Use of Sarum — 15th century, beginning; English
Liturgical fragments — 11th century – 16th century

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 7

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical and other fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 16

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical fragments acquired before 1976, Legendary (?) (fragment) — 12th century – 16th century; Italian; English

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 17

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical fragments acquired 1976-2021

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 19

Contents:
Liturgical fragments — 12th century – 15th century; English; French

MS. Lat. liturg. c. 38

Contents:
Fifteen fragments, mostly from Missals, Use of Sarum, and recovered from bindings. Arranged in order of the Adams numbers (see…

MS. Lat. liturg. d. 16

Contents:
Breviary (portable) — 14th century, late; Dutch
Missal — c. 1100; English
Missal — 15th century; German
Calendar — 14th century
Collectar — 12th century
Psalter — 15th century
Breviary (portable) — 14th century; French (?)
Breviary (portable) — 14th century; Dutch
Breviary (portable) — 14th century
Sacramentary — 12th century; French
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MS. Lat. liturg. d. 41

Contents:
Hubert (d. after 1253), etc. — Multiple dates; English

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 25

Contents:
Ritual, Use of Sarum, Commendation and Mass of the Dead, including a Litany — 14th century, early; English
Missal — 13th century, second half; English
Office of the Dead — 15th century; English

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 34

Contents:
Franciscan Psalter, Breviary, and Missal combined, Corrections and additions — Multiple dates; Italian (?)

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3

Contents:
Fragments, 7th-17th centuries

MS. Lat. misc. b. 3

Contents:
Guardbook, chiefly from bindings

MS. Lat. misc. b. 12

Contents:
Guardbook: miscellanous fragments, mainly of legal works

MS. Lat. misc. b. 13

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments: the following description is incomplete

MS. Lat. misc. b. 17

Contents:
Fragments, 11th century - 17th century

MS. Lat. misc. b. 18

Contents:
Guardbook of pastedowns from Oxford bindings, made by Philip Bliss

MS. Lat. misc. b. 21

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 12th century – 15th century; German; English; French

MS. Lat. misc. b. 22

Contents:
Guardbook of medieval fragments found/acquired before 1976.

MS. Lat. misc. b. 25

Contents:
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from known sources, 1933–65 and n.d. (the quotations of…

MS. Lat. misc. b. 26

Contents:
Manuscript fragments and documents accumulated by N. R. Ker (1908–82) , from sources not now identifiable (but most show traces…

MS. Lat. misc. c. 17

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Lat. misc. c. 18*

Contents:
Guardbook — 13th century – 19th century; English; French; Flemish; German

MS. Lat. misc. c. 75

Contents:
Collectanea of John Bale: seven manuscripts bound together

MS. Lat. misc. c. 91

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments from the binding of Antiq. c.I.1514/1

MS. Lat. misc. c. 92

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 11th century – 18th century; English, French

MS. Lat. misc. c. 96

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 13th century – 18th century; English, French, German, Dutch

MS. Lat. th. b. 2

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments.

MS. Lat. th. b. 3

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments

MS. Lat. th. f. 18

Contents:
Bonaventure, Guibert of Tournai, etc. — Multiple dates; French

MS. Laud Misc. 205

Contents:
Hugh of Fouilloy, etc. — 13th century – 15th century; English
Life of St. Catherine — 13th century – 15th century; English

MS. Laud Misc. 402

Contents:
Lawrence of Aquileia, etc. — 13th or 14th century (?); English
William Greenfield, archbishop of York — 13th or 14th century (?); English
Seneca, etc. — 13th or 14th century (?); English
Edward III (?) — 13th or 14th century (?); English
Achard of St.-Victor, Simon of Gent, etc. — 14th century and 15th century, first half; English
Bonaventure, John Waleys, etc. — 13th or 14th century (?); English
Evangelium Nicodemi — 14th century, first half; English
Robert Grosseteste, etc. — 13th or 14th century (?); English

MS. Laud Misc. 527

Contents:
Breviary — 15th century; England
Gratian, Richard of Wetheringsett, etc. — 12th century, end – 14th century; England
Distinctiones — 13th century, late, or 14th century, early; England
Text on vices and virtues — 13th century, late, or 14th century, early; England
Commentary on Ps.-Aristotle, Physiognomia — 14th century; England
R. de Stanington, Defensor, etc. — 12th century, end – 14th century; England (at least in part)
Theological notes (loci communes), Visio Pauli, etc. — 14th century, first half; England
Geoffrey Babion, etc. — 13th century; England (?)
Pierre de Limoges, etc. — 14th century; England
Robert Grosseteste (?), etc. — 13th century; England
Innocent III — 13th century; England (?)
Directorium simplicium sacerdotum siue Quinque uerba — 13th century, late, or 14th century, early; England

MS. Lawn medieval 18

Contents:
Guardbook of fragments — 11th century – 16th century; Flemish (?), French, English, German, Italian

MS. Lyell empt. 12

Contents:
Biblical fragments, Liturgical fragments, etc. — 12th century – 18th century

Merton College 40. j. 12

Contents:
Thomas Aquinas — s. xiii/xiv

Merton College MS. 13

Former shelfmark:
A. 1. 1
Contents:
WORKS OF THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL INSTRUCTION; S. XIV (I), c. 1478 (II-III)

Merton College MS. 89

Former shelfmark:
F. 1
Contents:
RAYMOND LULL; c. 1470–80

Merton College MS. 267

Former shelfmark:
E. 1. 3
Contents:
WILLIAM OF MACCLESFIELD, ALAN OF LILLE &c.; S. XIII, XIV, XV

Merton College MS. 300

Former shelfmark:
A. 3. 1
Contents:
SENECA; c. 1300, s. xv 3/4

MS. Mus. c. 60

Contents:
Guardbook of miscellaneous musical items, including three groups of medieval polyphonic fragments, Motets and mass settings — 13th and 14th centuries; English, Worcester (?)
Gilles Binchois — 15th century
Motets — 13th century; English

MS. Rawl. B. 329

Contents:
Cartulary of Hereford Cathedral — 15th century; English
Cartulary of Hereford Cathedral — 13th century, end – 14th century, beginning; English

MS. Rawl. B. 494

Contents:
Cartulary of Dunbrothy Abbey, Co. Wexford — 13th century, 14th century and 15th century; Irish

MS. Rawl. C. 100

Contents:
Hugo Ripelinus — 13th century – 16th century
Constitutions of English church councils, 1222–1268 — 13th century – 16th century
Nicholinus de Camilla, etc. — 13th century – 16th century
Matrimonial proceedings in ecclesiatical court, Notes on canon law — 13th century – 16th century
Johannes Andreae, etc. — 13th century – 16th century
Financial memoranda — 13th century – 16th century
Tabula on Gratian, Decretum — 13th century – 16th century
Financial and astrological memoranda, 1552 (?) — 16th century
Monition in a case of defamation, 1508 — 16th century

MS. Rawl. D. 1138

Contents:
Devotional treatise, Charters and documents relating to Oxford, c. 1174–1415 — 12th century – 18th century; English

MS. Rawl. D. 1373

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 13th century – 16th century

MS. Rawl. Essex 11

Contents:
Antiquarian collections mostly relating to Essex, including some original documents; 13th century - 17th century

MS. Rawl. liturg. e. 1*

Contents:
Breviary (Benedictine) — Multiple dates; English

MS. Rawl. Q. a. 1

Contents:
Manorial court rolls for Marden, Clehonger and Eggleton, 1325–6 (fols. 5r, 6r, 7r) and 1347–8 (fols. 7r-v), Obligation, 1536, etc. — England

MS. Rawl. Q. b. 4

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 9th century – 16th century

MS. Rawl. Q. d. 19

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — 13th century – 16th century

MS. Selden Supra 102

Contents:
Breviary (Rouen) — 12th century – 15th century

St John's College MS 9

Contents:
Glossed Gospels

St John's College MS 15

Contents:
Epistle collections: Augustine, Ambrose, Becket

St John's College MS 98

Contents:
Theological miscellany

St John's College MS 149

Contents:
Theological miscellany

St John's College MS 188

Contents:
Scientific and medical miscellany

St John's College MS 190

Contents:
Preaching materials: tracts and sermons

MS. Tanner 110

Contents:
Bestiarium moralizatum, Sermons, etc. — 12th century, 13th century, 14th century, 15th century

Trinity College MS. 3

Contents:
A. Hugo Ripelinus, Summa theologiae veritatis; Ps.-Methodius, Revelationes. England; XIVex–XV1. B. ?Albertus Magnus, Compendium…

Trinity College MS. 18

Contents:
A. William of Pagula, Oculus sacerdotis. England; XIV3/3. B. John of Deo, Flos decretorum. England, France, or Low Countries;…

University College MS. 45

Contents:
Langland, William, 1330?-1400?, Henry, of Huntingdon, 1084?-1155, etc. — 1100–1500; England

University College MS. 63 (also University College MS. 62)

Contents:
Grosseteste, Robert, pseudo (John of Wales?), Gilbert, of Hoyland, etc. — 1200–1500; England; France

University College MS. 120

Contents:
Burley, Walter, 1275-1345, etc. — 1200–1450; England.

University College MS. 192

Contents:
Fragments, removed from bindings of other manuscripts, Antiphonary, etc. — 12th to 14th centuries; England.