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MS. Add. A. 30

Contents:
Texts relating to the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem — 1350 with additions to c. 1410; French, Provence (?)
Manual of confession — 15th century; French
Quodvultdeus — 15th century; Spanish

MS. Ashmole 341

Contents:
Giles de Lessines, Alhazen, etc. — 1265 × 1277; French, Paris (?)
Martianus Capella — Multiple dates; Spanish

MS. Ashmole 789

Contents:
Writing exercises — 15th century, second quarter; English
Disticha Catonis, 'Sentences of Sages' — 15th century
Formulary of letters — 15th century, first half; French
Correspondence and documents of ambassadors to England and France from the Pope of Rome, 1374-6 — 14th century, second half
Documents relating to Anglo-French treaties, 1395-1410 — 15th century
Documents relating to a meeting of the ambassadors of England and France, 1418 — 15th century
Thomas Bekynton — 14th century; English
John Somer — 14th century, end (after 1387); English

MS. Auct. D. 2. 12

Contents:
Minor Prophets, glossed, Theological pieces — 12th century, late or 13th century, early; English or French

MS. Auct. D. 2. 16

Contents:
Gospels; France (Landevennec), s. x 1/2, with additions at St Bertin and Exeter, s. xi

MS. Auct. D. 4. 12

Contents:
Apocalypse with glosses, Song of Songs with glosses — 13th century; French (?)
Guillaume Perault, Peregrinus Polonus — 14th century, early; English (?)

MS. Auct. F. 4. 22

Contents:
Sacramentary — 9th century, third quarter (?); German, South
Ovid — c. 1200
Virgil — 12th century, middle; French (?)

MS. Auct. F. 4. 32

Contents:
‘St Dunstan's Classbook’: four manuscripts written 9th-11th century in Brittany, Wales and England

MS. Auct. T. 2. 26

Contents:
Eusebius, Marcellinus comes

MS. Bodl. 218

Contents:
Bede, etc. — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin

MS. Bodl. 398

Contents:
Isidore, Theodulf of Orleans, etc. — 12th century, end; additions, 13th century, beginning; English
Odo of Cluny, etc. — 13th century, beginning; French (?)

MS. Bodl. 553

Contents:
Gradual (Cistercian) — 14th century, beginning; English (?)
Willelmus de Congenis — 12th century, second half; French, South

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
Now MS. Lat. misc. d. 48, fols. 1, 2, 11, 12.

MS. Bodl. 572

Contents:
I(A-D) ‘Codex Oxoniensis Posterior’, Cornwall (?), Wales (?), s. x; II Penitential and canonical collection, N. E. France (?),…

MS. Bodl. 579

Contents:
The Leofric Missal

MS. Bodl. 596

Contents:
Life of Adam, Religious texts, etc. — 15th century, beginning (after 1415); English
John Lydgate — 15th century, third quarter; English
Bede, Lethaldus Miciacensis, etc. — 11th century, end - 12th century, beginning; Multiple places of origin

MS. Bodl. 691

Contents:
Augustine — Multiple dates; Multiple places of origin

MS. Bywater 17

Contents:
Collection of Moral Sayings; France or Italy, 15th - 16th century

MS. Canon. Misc. 248

Contents:
Charters relating to Sicily, 1077-1458 — 16th century (?); Italian
Johannes de Lineriis, Nicholas Oresme, etc. — 14th century, third quarter; French
Computistical tables — c. 1330 (?); English (?)

Christ Church MS. 378

Contents:
‘The Book of Orts’

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 76

Contents:
Roger Bacon, Roger Bacon (?), etc. — 13th century, second half (after 1266); Script partly English, partly French (fols. 41v5-42v, 44r-v, 45r-v) in style.
Ps.-Avicenna, Dominicus Gundisalvi, etc. — 13th century, first half; England
Thomas Bradwardine — 14th century, late or 15th century, early; Italy

MS. Digby 81

Contents:
Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Thomas of Newmarket (?), etc. — 15th century; English
John of Stratford, etc. — 15th century
Somniale Danielis — 15th century
Albertus Magnus — 15th century
Calendars — 15th century, end; French, North-west
Easter tables — 10th century, late - 11th century, first half

MS. Digby 140

Contents:
Poem on stars, Treatise on seasons — 13th century, end; French
Thomas Stubbs — c. 1300; English

MS. Douce 51

Contents:
Untitled work or fragment — c. 1490; Flemish
Untitled work or fragment — c. 1500; French

MS. Douce 327

Contents:
Bible, Epistle and Gospel list, Use of Sarum — Multiple dates; French; list added in England (?)

MS. Douce 381

Contents:
Life of St. Juliana — 13th century
Adam Ross — 13th century
The Destruction of Troy — 13th century
Characters of first eighteen days of the month in relation to good and ill fortune — 15th century
Martijn van Thorout — 14th century, second half; Dutch
Romance of Garin de Montglane (?) — 15th century
Songs — 15th century, late
Songs with music — 14th century, late (?)
Chanson de Jérusalem — 13th century
Collectar and Hymnal — 13th century
[22 more parts]

MS. Douce b. 4

Contents:
Illustrations of medieval fools and jesters: illuminations from manuscripts, original sketches and copies — 14th century -19th century; Multiple places of origin

MS. Douce d. 13

Contents:
Romance — 14th century, second quarter; French
Antiphonal or Gradual — c. 1480; Italian, Lombardy
Antiphonal or Gradual — 15th century, middle; Italian, Lombardy
Antiphonal or Gradual — 15th century, second quarter; Italian, Lombardy
Guyart Desmoulins — 15th century, beginning; French

MS. Douce d. 19

Contents:
Collection of illuminated and historiated initials cut from various MSS.

MS. e Mus. 66

Contents:
Bede, Franco — c. 1110-1140; English, Canterbury, St. Augustine's
Arator — late 6th or early 7th century; Multiple places of origin

MS. Fr. d. 16

Contents:
Tristan de Thomas — 12th century, late or 13th century, beginning; French or English (?)

MS. Hatton 42

Contents:
Collection of Canons (Hibernensis) — 9th century, second half; French, Brittany
Collection of Canons — 10th - 11th century; English
Dionysius Exiguus — 9th century, middle; French, North
Ansegisus — 9th century, second half; French, Brittany

MS. Hatton 76

Contents:
Gregory the Great — 11th century, first half; English, Worcester (?)
Ps.-Basil the Great — 11th century, late; English, Worcester (?)
Ps.-Apuleius — 12th century (?); English, Worcester (?)
Damigeron — 12th century, early; France

MS. Lat. bib. c. 1

Contents:
Wisdom — 12th century, beginning; French, South-west
Kings with gloss — 13th century, middle; English
Commentaries on Old Testament subjects — 13th century

MS. Lat. class. d. 35

Contents:
Aristotle, etc. — c. 1300; Multiple places of origin

MS. Lat. hist. b. 1

Contents:
Guardbook

MS. Lat. liturg. a. 8

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. a. 12

Contents:
Liturgical fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 7

Contents:
Guardbook of liturgical and other fragments

MS. Lat. liturg. b. 19

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

MS. Lat. liturg. d. 16

Contents:
Liturgical fragments, accessioned before 1976, mostly from bindings of Bodleian MSS and printed books.

MS. Lat. liturg. e. 21

Contents:
Psalter, Litany — Multiple dates; French; additions, English

MS. Lat. liturg. f. 2

Contents:
Bridget of Sweden, etc. — 14th century, late - 15th century, early; France or Flanders, with additions in England

MS. Lat. misc. a. 3

Contents:
Fragments, 7th-17th centuries

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:
Collection of fragments — 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. 96

Contents:
Fragments — 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. Laud Lat. 3

Contents:
Justinian, Codex; Italy, late 13th century

MS. Laud Misc. 102

Contents:
A Minor prophets, glossed; Germany, 12th century, end; B Ezechiel, glossed; France (Paris), c. 1200

MS. Laud Misc. 237

Contents:
Regula S. Benedicti — 14th century, first half; German
Honorius Augustodunensis, Ps.-Augustine, etc. — 12th century
Heito — 12th century, third quarter
Giles of Corbeil, etc. — 13th century, first half; Italy or France
Iohannitius, Hippocrates, etc. — 13th century, first half; Italy or France
Dionysius Exiguus, etc. — 12th century, second half
Liturgical fragments (hymnal?) — 14th century

MS. Laud Misc. 307

Contents:
Composite: Theological text; Italy, 13th century, end | Canon law; Italy or France, 14th century, beginning

MS. Laud Misc. 430

Contents:
Jerome, etc. — 14th century, second half or end; Germany or France (?)
Life of St. Katherine, Life of St. Blaise — 13th century; Italy
Theodericus Thuringus (Dietrich von Apolda), etc. — 14th century, second half or end; German

MS. Laud Misc. 562

Contents:
A: Robert Holcot; France (Paris), 1347; B: Jeremiah and Lamentations, glossed; Germany (?), 12th century

MS. Lawn medieval 18

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

MS. Liturg. 407

Contents:
Psalter — 13th century, first quarter; additions, 13th century, second quarter and 14th century, middle; English, Winchester (?); additions, France

MS. Lyell 85

Contents:
William of Tournai, Henricus de Frimaria — 14th century, early; German
Johannes Damascenus — 13th century, second half; French

Merton College MS. 3

Contents:
WORKS OF AUGUSTINE; S. XV in.

Merton College MS. 89

Contents:
RAYMOND LULL; c. 1470-80

Merton College MS. 103

Contents:
WILLIAM OF WARE ON I-IV SENT. &c.; S. XIV in.

Merton College MS. 109

Contents:
WILLIAM OF AUXERRE; S. XIII ex.

Merton College MS. 140

Contents:
VARIA; S. XIII, XIV

Merton College MS. 242

Contents:
SERMONS &c.; S. XIII1, XIII in., XII ex.

Merton College MS. 248

Contents:
AIDS TO PREACHING, JOHN BELETH &c.; S. XIV1, XII ex., XIII

Merton College MS. 249

Contents:
VARIA; S. XIII in.

Merton College MS. 250

Contents:
GARIOPONTUS, SENECA; S. XII1, XIII in.

Merton College MS. 263

Contents:
ISAAC IUDAEUS; c. 1200

Merton College MS. 275

Contents:
COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE; S. XIII-XIV

Merton College MS. 300

Contents:
SENECA; c. 1300, s. xv 3/4

Merton College MS. 304

Contents:
Philosophical texts; Padua, c. 1581

Merton College MS. 312

Contents:
MARCO POLO, HETHOUM, PALLADIUS; S. XIV in., XII 4/4

MS. Rawl. B. 167

Contents:
Historical, theological, ecclesiastical, legal and astrological texts, including genealogy of Pierre de Luxembourg, count of St. Pol, and his wife, fols. 186-205 — 14th century - 17th century; English and French

MS. Rawl. C. 152

Contents:
Jacques de Vitry, etc. — 13th century, end; French (?)
Geoffrey of Monmouth — 12th century, end; English (?)

MS. Rawl. C. 888

Contents:
Hymn to St. Theobald — 15th century, second half; Flemish (?)
Les Statuts de l'Ordre de S. Michel — 16th century, beginning; French

MS. Rawl. D. 913

Contents:
John Lydgate, Guillaume de Lorris, etc. — 14th century - 16th century; English, French, Netherlandish

MS. Rawl. G. 45

Contents:
Solinus — c. 1200; Flemish or French
Sidonius Apollinaris — 12th century, end; Flemish or French

MS. Rawl. G. 99

Contents:
Donatus, etc. — 13th century, middle
Ovid — 13th century, second half
Walter of Châtillon — 13th century, second half
Alexander Nequam, Adam of Balsham, etc. — 13th century; English (?)
Missal, Use of Rheims or Boulogne (?) — 12th century, late; French (?)