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1. Add MS 4382, ff 68-84v

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Add MS 4382, ff 68-84v
Title:
Pocket book containing accounts, medical recipes, and travel information, c. 1612. Italian, French and Latin.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8785

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Add MS 8785
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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Add MS 11600
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 11891, ff 12r-v

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Add MS 11891, ff 12r-v
Title:
Lexicographical notes which contain the names of Pleiades and various verbs for different animal sounds, as well as other verbs. On the next two folia are the beginnings of two letters in Italian, both in different hands, one letter being dated 1533.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 14396

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Add MS 14396
Title:
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

6. Add MS 15277

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Add MS 15277
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

7. Add MS 15281

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Add MS 15281
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

8. Add MS 15281, ff 4r-85v

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Add MS 15281, ff 4r-85v
Title:
Prayerbook of Sigismund I of Poland (Part 1)
Scope & Content:
This part of the manuscript contains the following: - 'Psalter of St Jerome', rubric: 'Incipit psalterium S. Jeronimi', incipit: 'Verba mea auribus', with a litany (ff. 37r-51r) and two prayers: 'Oracio. Dona michi queso' (ff. 35v-36r) and 'Oracio. Suscipe Domine Deus' (ff. 51v-52v) (ff. 4r-52v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1524
Extent:
82 folios, bound together with the rest of Add MS 15281

9. Add MS 15685

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Add MS 15685
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

10. Add MS 17015, f 1

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Add MS 17015, f 1
Title:
Title in Italian with a note added much later by an unidentified person with the initials a.b., concerning the manuscript and the copyist, possibly linked with the scribe of Laur. 32.1 containing the Iliad copied by Θεόδωρος ὁ Γαζῆς, or Θεόδωρος Ἀντώνιος τῶν Γαζαίων (1400-1475/6): Vita di Esopo Frigio e sue Favole con alcune altri di Fabria. Ms. Greco che offre infinite e importantissime varianti dalli stampati. La mano di scritto di questo codice e la stressa di quella del celebre Omero Laur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item