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1. Add MS 11430

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Title:
Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, and related texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the German nun and mystic Margareta Ebner (b. 1291, d. 1351). From 1311, Ebner was renowned for having experienced a series of spiritual visions, which she later recorded in her Offenbarungen (Revelations), composed between 1344 and 1348. The volume contains a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1744-1747
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 15103

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Title:
Collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by Martha Felderin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-228r: a collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by the scribe and nun Martha Felderin, beginning with an incomplete list of contents (f.1r) and ending with a colophon (f. 228r). ff. 1v, 106v-107v, 197v and 228v are blank. Decoration: Large initials in blue with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1488
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 15686

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Title:
The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare, a German translation of the Regula sororum sancta Clarae, promulgated by Pope Urban IV, 18 October 1263, written for the nuns of St Clare of Villingen, Swabia; ending with a Latin colophon, 'Explicit regula Sancte Cla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
c 1480
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 15710

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Title:
The Life and Miracles of St Francis of Assisi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-247v: The Life and Miracles of St Francis of Assisi by St Bonaventura, in German translation. f. 248r-254v: The Legend of St Francis, attributed in the text to a Friar Bartholomæus, 'do von dem nideren Kriechenland bürtig was, und was do von dem convent Corinthi' (from a mon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1478
Extent:

1 volume

5. Add MS 16950

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Title:
Gradual, Cistercian Use ('The Seligenthal Gradual')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Hymns (beginning imperfectly). ff. 4v-166v: The Temporal, from the first Sunday in Advent (beginning 'Ad te levavi') to the 23rd Sunday following Pentecost (beginning 'Dicit dominus ego'), including the Litany (ff. 100r-102v). ff. 167r-237r: The Sanctoral, from St Step...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1260
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 18311

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Title:
Rules of St Augustine for the government of nunneries
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: A letter from Heinrich von Lichtenau (b. 1444, d. 1517), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, imposing the Augustinian rule on the monastery of St Ulric, Dillingen, dated 23 June 1512; written in German, beginning, 'Wir heinrich von gottes gnaden Bischoff zu Augspurg...' ff. 2r-35r: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1512
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 21072

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Title:
Census of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a census of lands granted and leased to St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, an order established for former sex-workers. The entries are arranged by parish, each listing the property’s grantor, its extent, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 21177

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Title:
Revenues and expenses of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a list of rents owed to, and pensions paid by, St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, a religious order established for former sex-workers. The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1-10 and ff. 11-18) that w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Add MS 35021

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Title:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2.
Scope & Content:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Das Wohltemperierte Clavier, book 2. 21 of the 24 preludes and fugues of the second book of the ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’, BWV 870-872, 875-880, 882-893. All the music is in the hand of the composer, with the exception of the preludes and fugues in C minor, D mino...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German
Date Range:
[1739-1742]
Extent:
22 folios

10. Add MS 37767

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Title:
Original draft of Ludwig van Beethoven's violin and pianoforte Sonata in G [op. 30, no. 3, composed in 1802].
Scope & Content:
ff. 20. Original draft of the violin and pianoforte sonata in G, in score, 'da Louis van Beethoven'; originally published by the Bureau d'Arts et d'Industrie at Vienna, in 1803, as Op. 30, no. 3, and dedicated to Alexander I, Emperor of Russia. It is here described (? by the publisher) as 'Sonat...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1802
Extent:
1 volume (folio 20)