London. British Library, Harley MS 3908

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  • British Library, Harley MS 3908
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  • Latin
  • Old French
Title
  • Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae; Lessons on the Gospel of St Luke; Mass and Office for the feast of St. Mildreth; Historia de Sancta Mildretha in music; Textus translationis Mildrethe; John of Bridlington, Prophetia; Prophecies of Merlin
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  • Preferred form
    • Grégoire I (pape, 0540?-0604)
    Original form
    • Gregory I, c 540-604, Saint, Pope; also known as 'the Great'
    Other form
    • GRÉGOIRE LE GRAND
    • Grégoire le Grand
    • GREGORIUS I papa (S.)
    • GRÉGOIRE LE GRAND (S.)
    • Gregorius I (pape ; 0540?-0604)
    • Gregorius Magnus
    • Grégoire I (pape ; 0540?-0604)
    • Gregorius I
    • GREGORIUS MAGNUS I (s.), papa
    • GREGORIUS Magnus I (s.), papa
    • S. Gregorius Magnus
    • S. Gregorius
    • Gregoire Le Grand, S.
    • Gregorius
    • Saint Gregoire
    • Sancti Gregorii papae
    • GREGORIUS MAGNUS
    • Grégoire I (pape, 0540?-0604)
    • Gregorius Magnus (s.)
    • Gregorii
    • Saint Grégoire le Grand
    • GREGORIUS I MAGNUS (s.), papa
    • Beati Gregorii papae
    • Gregorio papa
    • Gregorii Papae
    • Sancto Gregorio
    • S. Gregorii Magni
    • Sancti Gregorii
    • Grégoire I (0540?-0604 ; pape)
    • Sanctus Gregorius Magnus
    • GREGORIUS I Magnus (s.), papa
    • Gregorii [Magni]
    • Gregorius (saint ; 06.. ?-07.. ? ; évêque d'Agrigente)
    • Saint Grégoire
    • Grégoire le Grand (Saint), pape
    • Grégoire I, pape, 0540?-0604
    • Grégoire le Grand,‏ ‎saint‏, ‎0540?-0604
    • Gregorius Magnus,‏ ‎sant,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Gregorius Magnus,‏ ‎saint,‏ ‎0540?-0604
    • Gregory ‎the Great, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604
    • Gregorius‏ ‎Magnus, Saint,‏ ‎ca. 540-604‏
    • Gregorius de Grote (paus)
    • Gregorius (heilige)
    • Gregorius I, papa
    • Gregorius Magnus,‏ ‎santo,‏ ‎ca. 540-0604
    • Gregori I, papa, 540-604
    • Gregorio I, Papa
    • Gregorius I (paus)
    • Gregorius Papa, I. 540-604
    • Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
    • Author: Gregorius I, Papa
    • Gregory the Great
    • Gregorius I, Pont. Max.
    • Gregory, I, Pope, approximately 540-604
    • Gregory
    • Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604
    • Gregory I, Pope
    • Pope Gregory the Great
    • Gregorius I, Magnus, paus, 540?-604
    • Grégoire (pape)
    • Gregorius, I.<Papa>
    • Gregor I., Papst, 542-604
    • Gregor, I.<Papst>
    • Gregorius papa
    • S. Grégoire
    • Grégoire le Grand (saint), pape
    • S. Grégoire le Grand
    • Gregor <I., Papst> (542-604)
    • Gregorius papa I
    • D. Gregorius
    • B. Gregorius
    • Divus Gregorius
    • Beatus Gregorius papa
    • Divus Gregorius papa
    • S. Gregorius papa
    • Gregorius PP.
    • Gregorius papa, 1., ca. 540-604
    • Gregory the Great, 540-604
    • Gregory the Great, (b. c. 540, d. 604), theologian and Pope
    • Gregory I, Pope (approximately 540-604)
    • Grégoire le Grand, pape, saint (540 - 604) > Pape
    • Grégoire le Grand, pape, saint (540 - 604)
    • Grégoire le Grand, pape, saint (540 - 604) > Père de l'Eglise
    • Gregorius (ca. 540-604)
    • Gregorio I, Papa, Santo, 540-604
    • Gregor
    • S. Gregorii
    • Gregor <I., Papst>
    • Gregorius Magnus (Nachtrag: Catalogus operum Gregorii Magni monasterio in maiore Frankenthal anno 1486 pertinentium)
    • Gregório Magno, Santo, 540-604
    • Gregório Magno, Santo, 540-604 > , co-autor
    • Igreja Católica, Papa 590-604 (Gregório I)
    • Gregorius Papa I - ca. 540 - 604 - auteur
    • Gregorius Papa I - ca. 540 - 604 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Johannes de Bridlington (13..?-1379)
    Original form
    • John of Bridlington, d 1379, Saint
    Other form
    • Thwing, John
    • John Thwing of Bridlington OSA
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  • Preferred form
    • Goscelin (1035?-1107?)
    Original form
    • Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, c 1035-c 1107
    Other form
    • Goscelin of Saint-Bertin
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Description
  • Contents:This manuscript consists mainly of texts written in the 1st half of the 12th century (ff. 1r-100r), and it also includes two added texts written in the 14th century (ff. 101r-117v). ff. 1r-35r: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Vita Sancte Mildrethae, (the Life of St Mildreth), with a prologue (ff. 1r-v). ff. 35r-39v: A series of eight lectiones or lessons extracted from the Life of St Mildreth. ff. 40r-41v: A reading from the Gospel of Matthew, 25, 1-13, followed by St Gregory, Homiliae XL in Evangelia , on Matthew 25:1-13, the parable of the ten virgins (ed. by Migne, Patrologia Latina , 72, col. 1118-1119). ff. 42r-v: Mass and Office for the feast of St Mildreth, Missa Sancte Mildrethae . ff. 42v-50v: Chant for the office of St Mildreth, Historia de Sancta Mildretha, set as an ntiphonary. Added musical notation: Anglo-Norman neumes on four-line blind-ruled staves, England, late 12th century (this is a separate quire). ff. 51r-98r: Goscelin de Saint-Bertin, Textus translationis et instructionis monasterii beate Mildrethe, a treatise on the translation of St Mildreth's relics (ed. by D. W. Rollason, Medieval Studies , 48 (1986), 139-208). ff. 98r-100r: Extract from Goscelin de Saint-Bertin, Libellus contra inanes sanctae virginis Mildrethae userpatores , a treatise defending the right of St Augustine's, Canterbury to the cult and relics of St Mildreth (ed. by M. L. Colker, Medieval Studies 39 (1977) 60-108) ff. 101r-105v: A collection of unidentified texts, consisting of a prayer, incipit, 'Est tum demonibus iugi certamine fligo', explicit, 'omnis fiat et Amen'; a 6-line verse, incipit, 'Si paciencia, mens bene conscia', explicit, 'est purgatorius ignis' (f. 101r); a longer poem (ff. 101v-105v), incipit, 'Olim regit seculum', explicit, 'sponsus regine benedict nos rex sine fine'; a short text beginning 'Triplex est martyrum sine sanguinis', explicit, 'ut Christus glorificatur'(f. 105v); ff. 106r-117r: Added John of Bridlington, Prophetia , 'Versus de Bridelyngton', dated 1327 in the colophon on f. 117r, though they could not have been written until after 1361, when Humphrey de Bohun, to whom they are dedicated became Earl of Hereford (ed. by Michael J. Curley, 'The Prophecy of John of Bridlington' (University of Chicago: unpublished PhD dissertation, 1973)). ff. 117r-v: Prophecies de Merlin, the Prophecies of Merlin in French, imperfect, beginning: 'Cy commencent aucunes des prophecies et des merveils que Merlyn dist en son temps de Engleterre et des rois', written by the same 14th-century hand as ff. 101r-117r. Decoration:Large initials in red, some with simple penwork decoration. Small initials in brown.
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