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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Add MS 88942/1/50

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('called G')
Scope & Content:
This notebook, although 'called G', has not been identified as part of a series. It starts 'Dictionnaire Comparative des langues Tento-Gothiques par H. Meichinger. Franf. 1833 and a French translation', and contains Middle High German words from the Niebelungen Lied, Welsh, Danish, Persian, Gael...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Egyptian (Ancient), English, Gaelic, German, Middle High, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 notebook (62 folios, 124 pages of text)

8. Harley MS 2621

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Harley MS 2621
Title:
Horace, Ars Poetica; Epistulae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8r: Horace, Ars Poetica. f. 8v: the mass sequence 'Ave gloriosa virginum regina vitis generosa', with neumes. ff. 9r-48v: Horace, Epistulae, glossed throughout, imperfect at the end. Decoration: 4 large puzzle initials in red and blue, occasionally with palmette motifs (ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2836

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Harley MS 2836
Title:
The first volume of a Bible in two parts (Genesis-Hebrews, without the Psalms)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-336v: The first volume (containing Genesis-Hebrews, without the Psalms) of a Latin Bible in two parts; for the second volume, see Harley MS 2837. The manuscript contains various additions: f. [iv]recto: A previously unidentified legal document from Beinwil Abbey, a Benedicti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2841

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Harley MS 2841
Title:
Middle High German prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This German prayer-book contains a large number of vernacular prayers to Christ and the Virgin Mary for personal devotional reading, and prayers, containing incipits of Psalms and liturgical prayers in Latin, for the canonical hours and the Mass. The manuscript was written for a female religious...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
1480-1483
Extent:
Parchment manuscript