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1. Kings MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 2
Title:
Bible (imperfect, with Joshua 13-Hebrews 6 only)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an imperfect 13th-century Bible of the Vulgate text, beginning with Joshua 13 and ending in Hebrews 6. The manuscript is wanting many leaves at the beginning and end, and after f. 148 (Psalms 117:121-Wisdom 12: 25), as well as five after f. 334 (Galatians 3:19-1 Thessalonians ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Kings MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 5
Title:
Biblia Pauperum
Scope & Content:
Biblia Pauperum, a picture Bible including a series of images of the life of Christ with Old Testament prefigurations, with three miniatures on every recto. Each miniature of the Christological cycle is accompanied by bust-length portraits of apostles and prophets holding scrolls and corresponds...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1395-1400
Extent:

1 volume

3. Kings MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 9
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum (''Anne Boleyn''s Book of Hours'')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-255v: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum; ff. 256r-303v: Devotional miscellany. Decoration: The Book of Hours (ff. 1-255) may have been illuminated by a Flemish artist, active in the Tudor court (Blackhouse, Books (1985), p. 79). The manuscript has also been attributed to a Paris...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

4. Kings MS 21

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 21
Title:
Cicero, Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Philippicae (Philippics), a series of speeches delivered by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), condemning Mark Anthony (b. 83 BC, d. 30 BC) in the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC). C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Kings MS 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 24
Title:
P. Vergilius Maro, Opera (‘the King’s Virgil’)
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-16v: P. Vergilius Maro, Bucolica; ff. 17r-58: P. Vergilius Maro, Georgica, by P. Ovidius Naso [pseudo-], verse, 'In primaum librum Georgicon Virgilii' (f. 16v); ff. 58v-244v: P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneis, preceded by P. Ovidius Naso [pseudo-], verses, 'quae contineant duodecim Aeneidos l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1483-1485
Extent:

1 volume

6. Kings MS 385

Reference (shelfmark):
Kings MS 385
Title:
Scope & Content:
'CATALOGUS librorum Græcorum in sæculo quin- decimo typis impressorum, C. B., Grenovici, 1799 being two lists of the early printed Greek MSS. in the library of Charles Burney, D.D. (d. 1817), the first containing forty-six books in chronological order [1476-1500] of printing, the second, twenty...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item