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WORKS by SS. Isidore and Alcuin, with a fragment in an Irish hand, viz.:- 1. "Liber beati Isidori Hispalensis episcopi ad Florentinam de summo bono": the Sententiae of S. Isidore, Bishop of Seville (Migne, Patr. Lat. lxxxiii. col. 537). In three books. A table of capitula precedes each book. B...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
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1 item

2. Add MS 37786

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HERBAL of the Pseudo-Aemilius Macer, translated into English prose, with an appendix and other notes, viz.:- 1. "These ben pe precious watris and vertuous for diuerse yuellys" a short tract beg. "Water of wormode is gode for pe stomak," and ending "grete lordes among the Saracenys vsen to dryn...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
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1 item

3. Add MS 37787

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PRAYERS and Meditations, in Latin and English, partly in verse. Much of the English part occurs also in the Vernon MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. 1. Form of confession in Engl. prose, with explanation of the commandments, sins, senses and works of mercy. Printed from the Vernon MS. by ...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
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1 item

4. Add MS 37788

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REGINALD PECOCK, Poor Men's Mirror: with other theological works in English, viz.:- 1. "Poore mennis myrrour": this title is given in the preface by the author [Reginald Pecock, Bishop successively of St. Asaph, 1444, and of Chichester from 1450 to his resignation, circ. 1459], who describes i...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
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Mid of the 15th century
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A Carthusian anthology of theological works in English (the 'Amherst Manuscript')
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Contents: An anthology of texts about contemplation as follows: ff. 1r-18r: Richard Rolle of Hampole, 'De emendatione vitae', translated into Middle English by the Carmelite monk, Richard Misyn. The rubric begins, 'This boke is off mendynge of lyfe or ellys off the rewle of lyfynge'. The tra...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
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Middle of the 15th century
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A parchment codex, 238 folios