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11. Add MS 22597

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Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

12. Add MS 25434

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Title:
Richard of Ireland (pseudonym), Les Prophecies de Merlin.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains only Les Prophecies de Merlin (imperfect): a collection of historical and ecclesiastical prophecies (written c. 1274-1279) purportedly dictated by Merlin to 'Maistre Antoine', bishop of Wales, and other scribes. The work, however, also features narrative materials about M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex.

13. Add MS 26667

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Title:
Chronique Universelle
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chronique Universelle, a chronicle of universal history from the Creation to 1340, divided into 6 ages. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures in colours with gold. Initials and line fillers in gold on red grounds. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 1r: The Expulsion from Paradi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1480-1490
Extent:

Parchment codex

14. Add MS 28260

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Title:
Moral and didactic texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: inserted leaves containing fragments of grammatical treatises in Latin in a 13th-century hand; ff. 3r-33v: Philip of Novara (Philippe de Novare) (b. 1195, d. c. 1270), Les Quatre Ages de l'Homme, a treatise on the four ages of Man, composed between 1265 and 1270 in the Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 101 folios

15. Add MS 29986

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Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champagne. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1407-1410
Extent:
1 volume

16. Add MS 30024

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Title:
Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor
Scope & Content:
Contents: Brunetto Latini, Li livres dou tresor, composed in 1260: ff. 3r-8v: Table of chapters, with seven sections marked by rubrics; ff. 8v-91r : Book 1, La Naissance de Toutes Choses, a universal history of the world, in three sections (two leaves after f. 48, two leaves after f. 63 and t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1260-1299
Extent:

A parchment codex

17. Add MS 33933

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Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

18. Add MS 34114

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Title:
A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

Parchment codex

19. Add MS 34652

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Title:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899); f. 3: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60–62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; ff. 4-43: A collection of leaves from manuscripts from the 12th to the 15t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment and paper codex

20. Add MS 34652, ff 4-43

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Title:
A collection of single folios from manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 4: Psalm 119: 88-106 with initials in blue, red or green, from a Psalter of the 12th century; f. 5: A miniature of the Crucifixion (f. 5r); a fragment of a Missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin, late 12th century (f. 5v); f. 6...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1200-1500
Extent:
40 parchment folios, part of a codex

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