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Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 286
Title:: Select works by Anselm of Canterbury
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-4v: Anselm of Canterbury, De veritate (with prologue and list of chapters. Inc. Tres tractatus pertinentes ad studium sacrae scripturae...). Schmitt I (1968), pp. 173-199. ff. 4v-7v: Anselm of Canterbury, De libertate arbitrii (preceded by chapters. Inc. Quoniam liberum arbitrium videtur....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 13th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 287
Title:: Robert de Braci, or Eadmer, or Alexander of Canterbury, Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters
Scope & Content:: Robert de Braci, or Eadmer, or Alexander of Canterbury, Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters. Same scribe as, and probably bound at the end of, Burney MS 320, with very similar mis-en-page and decoration, and flyleaf notations. Decoration: Full border, of red pen flourishing (f. 2r)....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 288
Title:: Thomas Aquinas, Six Quodlibetal Questions
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-17: Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibet 1 (Inc. Quaesitum est de Deo, Angelo et homine. Expl. ....etiam remota diversitate situs) ff. 17-31v: Thomas Aquinas, Quodlibet 2 (Inc. Quaesitum est de Christo, de Angelis et de hominibus... Expl. ....vade, et amplius noli peccare). ff. 31v-59: Thomas Aquin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: middle of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 289
Title:: Augustine, Confessions.
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r-126v: Augustine, Confessions f. 126v: Petrarch, Verses, inc. Hunc celer adfontem deserta f. 127r: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon, inc. Ex dictis Aurelii Augustini episcopi: Non enim mediocriter errat. Decoration: Large and small gold initials with white vine scroll decoration on blue, olive...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1427
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 290
Title:: Augustine, Enchiridion, Retractationes (extract), De beata vita, and various Psalms, Prayers, Litanies
Scope & Content:: Augustine, Enchiridion (ff. 2r-46v), Retractationes (extract) (ff. 47r-48v), De beata vita (ff. 49r-86v), and various Psalms, Prayers, Litanies (includes Te Deum). The litany includes Saints Swithin, Dunstan, Edith, and Etheldreda. Decoration: A partial scatter border (f. 2r). A historiated i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: between 1503-1522
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 291
Title:: Augustine, In Evangelium Ioannis tractatus (imperfect), Pseudo-Ildephonsus Toletanus or Pseudo-Maximus Taurinensis, Sermo VII in natale sanctae Mariae (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: Augustine, In Evangelium Ioannis tractatus (imprefect, lacking tracts 18 and 19 and substituting sermon 125) (ff. 1r-257r), Pseudo-Ildephonsus Toletanus or Pseudo-Maximus Taurinensis, Sermo VII in natale sanctae Mariae (imperfect) (f. 257v). Decoration: Large decorated initials in brown ink, s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1025-c 1074
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 292
Title:: Augustine, De civitate Dei
Scope & Content:: Augustine, De civitate Dei. Decoration: Title page (f. 1r) and end page (f. 315v) of capitals in alternating colours; a full border of white vine scroll with the arms of the Donati family of Venice inside a wreath in the upper border and hanging from the outside border, and the arms possibly o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1440-c 1470
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 293
Title:: Augustine, De doctrina christiana, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, and various sermons and homilies, including same by Pseudo-Augustine; Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis; Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis, imperfect
Scope & Content:: Augustine, De doctrina christiana (ff. 3r-113r), De perfectione iustitiae hominis (ff. 114r-118r), and various sermons and homilies (ff. 131r-135r), including same by Pseudo-Augustine; Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis (ff. 135r-166r); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 294
Title:: Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:: A typical latemedieval miscellany of theological texts for the low clergy. Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Honoriusof Autun, Dialogus de cognitione verae vitae.(printed in PL 40, 1005-32) ff. 39r-48r: Williamof St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de MonteDei chapters 95-119 (‘Tractatus beati Augustini de...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: One volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 295
Title:: Theological Miscellany
Scope & Content:: ff. 1v-2v: Pseudo-Augustine: Sermon on the Incarnation of the Lord (PL 39, 2196-2198; PLS 2, 858-859; CPPM I. 1030) with an incipit slightly different from the editions ('Legimus de sancto Moyse, populo dei praecepta dante'). f. 2v: Short poem on the vanity of the world ('Rebus mundi qui adhere...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

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