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1. Stowe MS 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 54
Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (or Histoire Universelle), a universal history from the time of Thebes to 60 BC, as follows: ff. 2r-30r: The story of Thebes from the birth of Oedipus to the conquest by Theseus and the story of Hercules; ff. 30v-45r: The siege and capture of Troy, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Stowe MS 55

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 55
Title:
Scope & Content:
"CHRONOLOGIA tum Sacra tum profana et Romana," from Sulpicius Severus, Justinus, Cornelius Nepos, Florus, Paterculus, etc. It begins with the Creation, and was intended to be carried down to the death of Augustus, but actually ends in B.C. 354, which is given as A.M. 5098, O1. cvi. 3, and A.U.C....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1745-1758]
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 56

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 56
Title:
Baudri de Bourgueil, Historia Hierosolymitana; Historia Danica; Pseudo-Cornelius Nepos, Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri; Historia Alexandri Magni; Pseudo-Alexander, Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem; Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi; Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-59r: Baudri de Bourgueil (b. c. 1046, d. 1130), Historia Hierosolymitana (The History of Jerusalem). ff. 59r-63v: Historia Danica (The Danish History). ff. 64r-75r: De Excidio Troiae Historia (The History of the Fall of Troy), authorship attributed to Dares Phrygius and trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

4. Stowe MS 57

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 57
Title:
Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1154
Extent:

1 volume