London. British Library, Royal MS 7 E VI

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
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London. British Library
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  • British Library, Royal MS 7 E VI
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Usuard, Martyrologium; Regula Sancti Benedicti; Homilies de tempore and de sanctis on the Gospels; Fragments from the Bible including the Gospels of St Mark (imperfect), St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the Prologue of the Acts of Apostles (imperfect)
Agent
  • Preferred form
    • Usuard (08..-0877)
    Original form
    • Usuard, d c 877, Monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
    Other form
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis (08..-0877)
    • Usuard
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis
    • Usuardus
    • Usuard, moine de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 08..-0877
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis monachus
    • Usuard, d. 876 or 7
    • Usuard, m. 876 o 7
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis fl.gest. ca. 875
    • Author: Usuardus, Sangermanensis
    • Usuard (moine de Saint-Germain-des-Prés ; ....-0877)
    • Usuard, -876 or 877
    • Usuardus Sangermanensis - ovl. c. 875/7 - oorspronkelijke auteur
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  • Preferred form
    • Benoît (saint, 048.?-0547?)
    Original form
    • Benedict of Nursia, 480-543/547, Saint, Abbot of Montecassino
    Other form
    • BENOIT (S.)
    • Benoit, S.
    • S. Benedictus
    • BENEDICTUS CASINENSIS (s.)
    • Benoît (saint ; 048.?-0547?)
    • Benoît
    • Benedictus de Nursia
    • Benoît, saint, 048.?-05 47 ?
    • Author: Benedictus, de Nursia
    • St. Benedict
    • Benedict of Nursia
    • St Benedict
    • Benedictus Nursius, 480?-547
    • Benedictus<de Nursia>
    • Benedictus sanctus
    • Benedictus <de Nursia> (480-547)
    • Benedictus
    • Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
    • Benedictus, de Nursia, 480-547
    • Bento, Santo, 480-547
    • Bento, Santo, 480-547 > , co-autor
    • Benoît (048.?-0547? ; saint)
    • Benedictus de Nursia - 480 - 550 - auteur
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Description
  • This manuscript consists of two distinct parts bound together at an unknown period. The first part (ff. 2r-203v) contains a martyrology with local addition for the Benedictine abbey of Christ Church, Canterbury and other confraternities including the rule of St Benedict (ff. 74r-93v). Several folios have been removed: a table of the epacts (used to find a date in the lunar calendar from the date in the solar calendar) for each year is now Cotton MS Claudius C VI (ff. 170r-203r); the original leaf containing a list of benefactors was removed and renewed by a new one containing the martyrdom of St Thomas Becket (f. 73r), the list of benefactors is now Cotton MS Galba E III (f. 32r); the end of the homily De virgine martyre and the homilies for the dedication of Christ Church and the octave are now Cotton MS Claudius C VI (f. 168r), along with Lanfranc's Constitutiones (ff. 168v-196). The second part, dating to the 3rd quarter of the 13th century, consists of part of the New Testament (ff. 104r-133r).Contents: ff. 2r-73v: Usuard, Martyrologium (Martyrology), with additions for Christ Church Canterbury. ff. 74r-93v: St Benedict of Nursia, Regula Sancti Benedicti (Rule of St Benedict). ff. 94r-103v: Temporal and Sanctoral homilies on the Gospels.ff. 104r-133v: The Gospels of St Mark, imperfect beginning in 15:40, St Luke and St John followed by the Epistles of St Paul, the Epistles to the Hebrews and the prologue to the Acts (imperfect).
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Canterbury (Kent, United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • Canterbury, England
    Other form
    • Canterbury (?)
    • Angleterre (Canterbury)
    • England, Canterbury
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  • Preferred form
    • England (United Kingdom)
    Original form
    • England
    Other form
    • Angleterre
    • Angleterre (?)
    • Angleterre.
    • Angleterre ?
    • Anglaterra
    • Inglaterra
    • Engeland
    • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
    • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
    • England (Salisbury?)
    • [Oxford?]
    • [England]
    • England, Norwich?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
    • England, Cornwall?
    • England, St. Albans?
    • England, North?
    • England, York?
    • England, Witham?
    • England, Winchester or St. Albans
    • England, Reading or Leominster
    • England, Cirencester?
    • England, Sherborne?
    • England, Worcester?
    • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
    • England, Tewkesbury?
    • England, East Anglia?
    • England, Peterborough?
    • England, Mercia?
    • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
    • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
    • England, Winchester?
    • England, Oxford?
    • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
    • England and Netherlands
    • England, Canterbury?
    • England, West Midlands?
    • England, London?
    • England, Crowland?
    • England, Wessex?
    • England, Reading?
    • England, Northeast?
    • England, Southeast?
    • England, Ely?
    • England, Winchester or Hereford?
    • England, Salisbury?
    • England, Oxford or Salisbury
    • German (but made in England)
    • England, South East (?)
    • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
    • Hereford?, England
    • England, Durham ?
    • England, Durham?
    • England, probably Durham
    • England, Oxford (?)
    • England, possibly Oxford
    • England (?Oxford)
    • England, Durham (?)
    • England, London/Westminster
    • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
    • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
    • Engeland (?)
    • England (II)
    • I. England
    • [Engeland]
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  • Public domain in most countries other than the UK
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