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2361. Add MS 6045

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'SMARAGDUS': 'Diadema Monachorum'; 812-816. Latin. Origin: Mosan? Smaragdus, Abbot of St Mihiel on the Meuse, diocese of Verdun, fl. 805-827. Preface beg. 'Hunc modicum operis nostri libellum' (f. 2). Text beg. 'Hoc est remedium eius qui vitiorum temptamentis exestuat' (f. 5v). There is a table of chapters between the Preface and Chapter I (ff. 2v-5v). After the explicit (f. 125), is written 'Probatio incausti'. Printed in Migne, PL, cii (1851), 594-690. For a modern discussion of the life...
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Theology LATIN: Smaragdus, Abbot of St Mihiel on the Meuse: Smaragdus, 'Diadema Monachorum': 9th cent: Lat. includes: f. 85 Art. Illuminations and Drawings: Border design: [9th-10th cent.?]: Pencil. f. 125v Art. Illuminations and Drawings: Saint Hudolfus,; Archbishop of Trier: Sketch of Saint ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
0812-0816
Extent:
1 item

2362. Add MS 6046

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Collections, mostly relating to Lindley, Leicestershire
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A small quarto volume (147 folios), titled ‘Antiquates de Lindly in Com. Leic [Leicestershire] sive Exemplificatis scriptorum cartarum veterum, rentalium, inquisitionum, et evidentiarum, probantium antiquitates dicti manerii de Lindley, et hereditatem de Burton in dicto manerio quæ nunc sunt pen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1597-1623
Extent:
1 volume (147 folios)

2363. Add MS 6047

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LETTERS, ETC., OF ST BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX, and other theological works; circa 1452. Latin. Origin: Germany. A modern edition of the works of St Bernard is in progress, Sancti Bernardi Opera [SBO], ed. J. Leclercq, C. H. Talbot and H. M. Rochais, Editiones Cistercienses (1957 - ). See also: J. Leclercq, Études sur Saint Bernard et le texte de ses écrits, Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, ix (Rome, 1953); Bernhard von Clairvaux, Moench und Mystiker, Internationaler Bernhard Kongress Mainz ...
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Bindings GERMAN: Brown leather: late 15th cent. Theology LATIN: Letters of St Bernard, sermons, etc.,: circa 1452: Lat. Art. Illuminations and Drawings GERMAN: Theological collection: initial and fore-edge painting: circa 1452. includes: f. 1 Adolf Heinrich Friedrich von Schlichtegroll, Dire...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1452
Extent:
1 item

2364. Add MS 6048

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A Catalogue of the first 54 volumes, and part of the 55th volume of the ‘Scrinia Ceciliana’, or Burghley Papers
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A small quarto volume (135 pages), in which is a catalogue of the first 54, and part of the 55th volume of the ‘Scrinia Ceciliana’, or Burghley Papers, now in the Lansdown collection of manuscripts. Compiled and written by the Reverend Joseph Greene, Vicar of Weston, Schoolmaster of Stratford up...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1757
Extent:
1 volume (135 pages)

2365. Add MS 6049

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Title:
Orders for His Majesty's and the Honourable Company's forces in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa
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General orders to be observed by His Majesty’s and the Honourable Company’s forces, in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, under the command of Major Adams, from 4 July 1763, to 3 November 1764. In a folio volume.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1763-1764
Extent:
1 volume (224 pages)

2366. Add MS 6050

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Orders for His Majesty's and the Honourable Company's forces in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa.
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General orders to be observed by His Majesty’s and the Honourable Company’s forces, in the Provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, under the command of Major Adams, from 4 November 1764 to 30 August 1765. At the end is added: 1. The report of Gun Practice carried on by order of Lieutenant Colon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1764-1767
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

2367. Add MS 6051

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CICERO: 'De Officiis', written by Bartolomeo Sanvito; 1494. Latin. Origin: Italy. Beg. 'Quam quam te Marce fili annum iam audientem'. First printed in Maintz, 1465. For a modern edition see M. Tulli Ciceronis officiis libri tres, P. Fideli (1965). See also: L. F. Reynolds, ed., Texts and transmission. A survey of the Latin Classics (1983), pp. 130-131; Watson, no. 5. At least 45 other copies of this text exist in the Department's collections. Coat of arms of original owner (f. 3). Presented ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Black leather, gilt-tooled: circa 1494. Scribes: Bartolomeo Sanvito: 1494. Bartolomeo Sanvito: Wrote: 1494. Marcus Tullius Cicero: 'De Officiis': 1494: Lat. includes: f. 3 Heraldry: Arms of owner, Italian: circa 1494. ff. 3, 58v, 92 Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1494
Extent:
1 item

2368. Add MS 6052

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Title:
Classed catalogue of the heraldic manuscripts in the Harleian Collection
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A classed catalogue of the heraldic manuscripts in the Harleian Collection, in the handwriting of Humphrey Wanley, Lord Oxford’s Librarian, disposed under the following heads: i. Rudiments of heraldry. p. 1; ii. Arms promiscuous. Ib; iii. Quarterings. p. 2. Iv. crests. Ib; v. Alphabets. p. 3; vi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 volume (60 pages)

2369. Add MS 6054

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Title:
‘Mr. Joseph Dandredge’s observations of Insects, vol. 2'
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A thin tract in quarto, ff. 40, entitled ‘Mr. Joseph Dandredge’s observations of Insects, vol. 2,’ containing drawings of 83 English caterpillars, and remarks on each. This volume formerly belonged to the Steane Collection (no. 287), and was transferred from the Library of Printed Books.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 volume (40 folios)

2370. Add MS 6056

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STATIUS: 'Silvae', written in Florence; circa 1480-1490. Latin. Origin: Italy. Beg. 'Diu multumque dubitaui Stella'. Identified by M. D. Reeve, 'Statius Silvae in the fifteenth century', Classical Quarterly, xxvii (1977), p. 215, as a corrected copy of the Venice edition of 1475. For a standard edition see A. Klotz, P. Papini Stati Silvas (1911). See also Reynolds, pp. 397-399. Arms of the original owner, f. 1. Presented by Francesco Sastres, Neapolitan Consul in London, 12 March 1814. Ve...
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Poetry LATIN: Publius Papinus Statius: Statius, 'Silvae': circa 1480-1490: Lat. includes: f. 1 Heraldry: Arms of owner, Italian: circa 1490.ff. 1, 2, 17v, 33, 48v, 63v Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Statius, 'Silvae': initials and borders: circa 1480-1490.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

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