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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number MS GERM/16
TitleSermons and Other Liturgical Texts (Predominantly Latin, some German)
Date12th century
DescriptionManuscript volume, 12th century, comprising a collection of sermons and other liturgical texts. Written in Germany. Predominantly written in Latin, only a very small proportion of the text is in German.
Extent1 volume containing 43 leaves
AdminHistoryWritten in Germany.
CustodialHistoryFormerly bound with MS LAT 1-3 as Phillipps MS 18090. The manuscript belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose collection included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds, some relating to the administration of Swiss towns. He apparently bought the manuscript from the antiquary Tross in Paris. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries.
AcquisitionPresented to University College London by Lord Iveagh in 1911.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London' (London, 1935) and N R Ker, 'Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries' (London and Oxford, 1969), which summarise the contents of the manuscript; handlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNoteDorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935), reproduces f 39r of the manuscript (Plate VII).
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