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1. Add MS 5242

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Title:
Polyglot Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Coptic, French, Geez, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
1665
Extent:
20 folios

2. Add MS 8785

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Title:
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus rerum (in Mantuan)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an early vernacular version of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's (d. 1272) De Proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things), translated into the Mantuan dialect by Vivaldo del Belcalzer (d. after 1308), a notary and councillor of Mantua. It was given by Belcalzer to Guido de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1300-1309
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Add MS 11600

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Title:
Scribal collection of correspondence, tracts and speeches, 1522-1628
Scope & Content:
This is a scribal collection which contains political news and sexual scandal, correspondence, speeches, tracts and verse satire. The content is largely early 17th-century, with some Elizabethan material. It also contains a collection of papers recording the diplomacy of Henry VIII and Cardinal ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1640
Extent:
1 volume.

4. Add MS 14396

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A collection of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Xaver Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn and Sigismond Neukomm.
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-13v. Franz Xaver Mozart: "Ich bin der erste Buffo", op. 13. Aria, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, horns, clarinets, drums, and strings, in score, composed in 1808 for a private performance of his father's "Der Schauspieldirektor." Autograph. It was written for the com...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Add MS 15277

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Title:
Old Testament Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy and Joshua (the 'Paduan Bible Picture Book')
Scope & Content:
Contents: A cycle of miniatures illustrating the Old Testament, from Exodus I:11 to the end of the Book of Joshua, with short captions in Italian. All pages are fully illuminated, with the exception of 12 text pages (ff. 19v, 20r, 24v-30r, 56v-57v), one half text page (f. 24r) and blank folios...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

A parchment codex, 80 folios

6. Add MS 15281

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Title:
Prayer book of Sigismund I of Poland
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a collection of prayers known as the Prayerbook of Sigismund I of Poland, composed of two separate parts: ff. 4r-85v and 86r-197v, which were copied, decorated and assembled in the workshop of Stanisław Samostrzelnik. The Prayerbook is appended by a collection of prayer...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1524-Early 17th century
Extent:

Parchment codex; 222 folios

7. Add MS 15685

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Title:
Jacobus de Cessolis, Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super ludo scaccorum; Libellus moralis Senece; Liber moralis de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus; Liber septem philosophorum (The Seven Sages of Rome)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-47r: Jacobus de Cessolis, Ordinis Praedicatorum: Libellus de moribus ad ludi Scacchorum scienciam descriptus (Moralised Book of Chess), in Latin. There are four books or treatises: 1, the Background of the Game; 2, the Noble Figures; 3, the Commoners; 4, the Openings and Moves...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 16390 B

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Title:
Kabbalistic miscellany
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Italian
Date Range:
1500-1599
Extent:
130 folios

9. Add MS 19587

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Title:
Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia
Scope & Content:
Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) with Latin rubrics at the beginning of each canto. ff. 1r-60r: Inferno, with the rubric, 'Incipit primus cantus Primæ Comediæ Dantis, Poetæ Florentini, in quo tractat de infernis'; ff. 61r-118v: Pergatorio, with the rubric, 'Incipit primus c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1370
Extent:

Parchment codex

10. Add MS 20172

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Title:
Letters of Sir Hudson Lowe
Scope & Content:
Letters (in Italian) of Sir Hudson Lowe (d. 1844), Governor of Santa Maura, addressed to the Grand Vizier Ali Pacha, at Yanina, and other Turkish Officers in Greece and Albania, April 1810 to January 1812.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1810-1812
Extent:
1 item