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1. Add MS 19400

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Add MS 19400
Title:
Letters from English reformers and martyrs
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–110v: Original letters, principally of English reformers and martyrs from the reign of Mary I. Prefixed is a descriptive list of the letters, by the Reverend William Jacobson. ff. 1r–16v: Jacobson’s descriptive list. ff. 17r–v: Letter from Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester to Matthew P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 34652

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Add MS 34652
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

3. Add MS 34652, ff 44-61

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Add MS 34652, ff 44-61
Title:
Facsimiles of medieval manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: Facsimiles of legal, and liturgical manuscripts and engravings, including engravings of King David from Royal MS 15 D iii, f. 268r (f. 45), the Evangelist portraits from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero MS D IV: St Mark, f. 93v, St Luke, f. 137v, St John, f. 209v, St Matthew, f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
18 paper folios

4. Add MS 36668

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Add MS 36668
Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Daniel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is entirely dedicated to the Commentary on Daniel by St Jerome (b. c. 347, d. 420). An inscription added at the Benedictine abbey of St Maximin in Trier shows that it was in that monastery shortly after its production. Added corrections, punctuation, marginal notation, practice a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 38895 A

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Add MS 38895 A
Title:
Sale of a Vineyard (Jur.Pap. 36, TM 70352, TM 97889)
Scope & Content:
Recto: The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Gathakes from the brothers Barakes and Sobenes. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to November 88 BCE ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Parthian
Date Range:
88 BC or 24 BC
Extent:

Parchment sheet, complete, but damaged by holes of varying size and little surface damage throughout; written on both sides, in Greek on the recto and in Parthian on the verso. The recto bears 64 lines; all margins are extant, with upper and side margins being minimal. On the back there are modern annotations, viz. the inventory number and the British Museum stamp in red. The sheet is housed in a glass case.

6. Add MS 43725

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Add MS 43725
Title:
Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes
Scope & Content:
Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א): Bible in two volumes. Imperfect. Leaves are missing from the beginning of the manuscript (more than 33 quires), from the end, and from various points in the middle. Some of these missing portions still survive, principally the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century
Extent:

2 parchment codices

7. Add MS 43725, ff 1r-199v

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Add MS 43725, ff 1r-199v
Title:
Codex Sinaiticus (Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א), volume 1: Old Testament
Scope & Content:
Volume 1 of the Codex Sinaiticus Gregory-Aland 01 or א; von Soden δ 2; Scrivener א). Imperfect. Leaves are missing from the beginning of the manuscript (more than 33 quires) and from various points in the middle. Contains the Old Testament (Chronicles 9:27-11:22, Tobit 2:2-14:15, Judith 1:1-9:13...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

8. Add MS 43725, ff 1r-v

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Add MS 43725, ff 1r-v
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Scope & Content:
1 Chronicles 9:27-11:22.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century
Extent:
1 folio

9. Add MS 43725, ff 2r-8r

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Add MS 43725, ff 2r-8r
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Scope & Content:
Tobit 2:2-14:15.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century
Extent:

7 folios

10. Add MS 43725, ff 8r-15v

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Add MS 43725, ff 8r-15v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Judith (lacking 11:14-13:8).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 4th century-3rd quarter of the 4th century
Extent:

8 folios