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Language Breton Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 14866-14961

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 14866-14961
Title:
Collection of Welsh Manuscripts, from No. 14,866 to No. 14,961 inclusive, presented by the Governors of the Welsh School, London.
Scope & Content:
Welsh Manuscripts: Collection of, formerly belonging to the Welsh School, London. Poetry WELSH: Collection of Welsh poetry, etc. Davydd Nanmor: Poems: Welsh.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Cornish, English, Greek, Modern, Irish, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
Early 13th century-18th century
Extent:
96 items

2. Add MS 14935

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 14935
Title:
Scope & Content:
ANOTHER VOLUME Of Miscellaneous Collections, by Lewis Morris. The principal contents are as follows :- List of Welsh words omitted by Dr. Davies and Mr. Llywd, f. 2;-Index of the contents of the volume called Prif feirdd Cymreig [Add. 14,867], f. 8; -Index of the contents of the volume called ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Cornish, English, Irish, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1663-1761
Extent:
1 item

3. Cotton MS Otho E XIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Otho E XIII
Title:
A collection of predominantly canon law and penitential texts, including: Liber ex Lege Moysi; two recensions of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis; St Patrick, Epistola ad Episcopos in Campo Hai; Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum; Pseudo-Adomnán, Canones Adomnani; Passio Septem Dormientium; Canones Theodori
Scope & Content:
This late 9th- or early 10th-century manuscript consists mostly of canon law and penitential texts. Several of these texts are of Irish origin; most notably the anonymous compilation known as Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (The Irish Collection of Canon law). The use of Insular versions of common...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century-1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

4. Harley MS 2719

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2719
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, with glosses
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of the only surviving text of the Latin grammarian Nonius Marcellus (fl. early 4th century), De Compendiosa Doctrina (Compendium on Instruction).This lexigographical work is divided into twenty books ordered according to words used by various authors quoted by Nonius Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

5. Harley MS 3941

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The manuscript was originally a single codex, but has been divided into two volumes, now Harley MS 3941/1 and Harley MS 3941/2. The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b. 599, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

2 volumes

6. Harley MS 3941/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941/1
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville (b.c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The second volume is Harley 3941/2. Contents: f. 1r: Letter of Braulio to Isidore, imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 3941/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3941/2
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes of the Etymologiae (Etymologies) of Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636), an encyclopedia in twenty books dedicated to Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa (b. 590, d. 651), the editor of the text. The first volume is Harley MS 3941/1. Contents: ff. 140r-151r: Isidore of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton and Latin
Date Range:
9th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

8. Sloane MS 1-4100

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1-4100
Title:
Sloane Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Sir Hans Sloane (d 1753). c 1100-c 1750. 4100 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Breton, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Greenlandic, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low German, Malayalam, Official Aramaic, Polish, Portuguese, Romance languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Venetian
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1750
Extent:
4153 items

9. Sloane MS 4064

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 4064
Title:
Scope & Content:
Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet: Original correspondence, chronologically arranged: 17th-18th centt. James Petiver, FRS, Apothecary to the Charter-House: Miscellaneous correspondence (N.B. Petiver died in April 1718, but letters were written to him up to 12 Febr. 1719.): 1697-1718/9, and n.d. include...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Breton, Dutch, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item