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1. Add MS 11847

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Title:
Psalter ('The Alheide Psalter')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is known as the 'Alheide Psalter' after its scribe, who identifies herself as 'Alheide' in a colophon (f. 186r). It was probably produced in a convent in central Germany, perhaps Thuringia, for an aristocratic female patron (see Kaufmann, 'The Alheide Psalter' (2010), pp. 125–139...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 15243

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Title:
Apocalypse, in German
Scope & Content:
Apocalypse, in German. Begins: 'Apokalipsis dit ist die offenbarunge ihesu cristi'. Ends: 'Hye endit dass buch der hymelichen offenbarunge. Explicit Apocalypsis. Amor vincit omnia'. Decoration: 14 full-page miniatures, without borders, in gold, silver and colours (ff. 2v, 4r, 10r, 12r, 15r, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
c 1350-c 1370
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Add MS 15689

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Title:
Illustrated book of relics from Bamberg Cathedral
Scope & Content:
Contents: This manuscript is a so-called ‘Heiligthumsbuch’ that itemizes the relics of Bamberg Cathedral and those of some nearby churches. It contains descriptions of relics with 133 illustrations of reliquaries from Bamberg Cathedral, the churches of St Stephen, St James and St Gangolf, and t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and German, Middle High
Date Range:
1508-1509
Extent:

Paper codex

4. Add MS 15695

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Title:
German devotional manuscript
Scope & Content:
This devotional manuscripts with German prayers to the Virgin Mary and Christ was produced for Louis I, Count of Löwenstein (b. 1463, d. 1523), founder of the house Löwenstein-Wertheim, as is indicated by 6 depictions of his coat of arms, 1 depiction of the coat of arms of his wife, Elisabeth vo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

5. Add MS 15700

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Title:
Middle German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
-
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and German, Middle High
Date Range:
1485
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Add MS 24153

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Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This highly decorated prayer-book was designed for a female member of the aristocratic family of the ‘Freiherren von Freyberg’ in Southwestern Germany. She is depicted, with her family’s coat of arms, in several of the manuscript’s full-page miniatures, often as a witness to the events of the Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
1509
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 25089

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Title:
1. "DAS Leyden vnsers hern ihesu christi wit der glosz gar eygentlich vnd clerlich, vnd auch die vorrede und sust vil lieplicher redo von der marter gottes:" an account of the passion of our Lord, with a commentary consisting of extracts from the fathers. Ger. f 2. 2. A moral tale of Our Lord in the guise of a pedler with seven symbolical caskets. With twelve rude coloured drawings. Ger. f. 78 b. 3. "Eyn Lere von funff Spiegeln:" a description of five symbolical mirrors wherein a man may...
Scope & Content:
Theology German: Tracts: 16th cent. Bindings GERMAN: Boards covered with skin: 15th cent. includes: f. 2 Our Saviour Jesus Christ: Account of the Passion: 16th cent.: Germ. f. 78 b Art. Illuminations and Drawings GERMAN: Tale of our Lord in guise of a pedlar. Drawings: 16th cent. ff. 78 b, 95...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Paper codex

8. Add MS 44944

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Title:
German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This late fifteenth-century or early sixteenth-century German prayer-book contains a large number of prayers to Christ and the Virgin Mary intended for private devotional reading. The manuscript was produced for a female religious community, as is indicated by prayers that are phrased for a woma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
1475-1525
Extent:

Paper codex

9. Add MS 88942

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Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

849 files

10. Add MS 88942/1

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Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders