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1. Add MS 10767

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Title:
Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 21984

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Title:
Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De senectute, a Latin treatise on the subject of aging and death, by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The manuscript's colophon indicates that it was written by Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488), daughter of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 22332

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Title:
Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Discorsi, a herbal assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: Index of plant names for the Discorsi; ff. 3r-184v: Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the Discorsi, assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo. This manuscript contains the Discorsi, an Italian herbal that provides a commentary on De Materia Medica by the Greek physician Pedanius ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-1584
Extent:

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4. Add MS 22333

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Title:
Gherardo Cibo, Paintings of flora of the Roman States
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A letter to Gherardo Cibo from Pietro Andrea Mattioli (b. 1501, d. 1577) of Sienna, physician physician to Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, praising his work; f. 3r-v: Index of plants; ff. 3r-63: Gherardo Cibo (b. 1512, d. 1600), P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-1584
Extent:

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5. Add MS 22754

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Title:
Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1451-c 1457
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 23623

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Title:
Collection of 17th-century compositions by Dr. John Bull, and possibly others
Scope & Content:
ff. 181. Compositions, apparently for Organ (see no. 26), by Jan Bull, sc. Dr. John Bull, with the possible exceptions of nos. 2, 9-12, 47, and 50-52. Transcribed on two staves of 6 lines shortly before and after his death, 18 January-16 November, 1628, etc., and probably composed while he was o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1628
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

7. Add MS 29987

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Title:
Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

8. Add MS 33933

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Title:
The Wode Psalter or St Andrews Psalter: contra-tenor part-book containing musical settings of metrical psalms from the 1564 Scottish Psalm Book and other music
Scope & Content:
Most of the music was collected and copied by Thomas Wode (or Wood). Wode was a former monk who worked at St Andrews after the Reformation in Scotland, eventually becoming vicar there. At the core of the collection are harmonisations of the psalms by Scottish composer David Peebles. Over a perio...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1625
Extent:
1 volume (94 folios)

9. Add MS 40076

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Title:
Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1446-1448
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 41623

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Title:
An illustrated Herbal (the 'Codex Bellunensis')
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-147v: A herbal from northern Italy; the text is chiefly an adaptation of Dioscorides, De Materia Medica in Latin, with occasional entries in Italian, including a list or index of plants (ff. 137r, 138r-v, 142r-145r, 147r-v). Other texts inserted in the main text are: ff. 128r-v, 134r-v, 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

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