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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4824
Title:: Geographical and antiquarian notes relating to Greece and Asia Minor, compiled by Arthur Pullinger, an English merchant in Aleppo
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1733-1739
Extent:: 5 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4864
Title:
Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. VIII (ff. 126). Icelandic ecclesiastical biographies and annals and a semi-historical saga, together with two romantic sagas relating to other countries, in three different hands; 18th cent. 'No. 47' according to a note on f. 1. Viz.:- (1) 'Hungur Vaka'. History of the f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Icelandic, and Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4896
Title:
Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XL (ff. 58). Hymns and prayers in Latin, followed by Icelandic versions of the two final prayers; 1717. '28' according to a note on the flyleaf. Hymns: Hymnbook used in Iceland: 1717.: Latin and Icelandic. includes: ff. 43b-58 Prayers: 'Precatio matutina' and 'precati...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Icelandic, and Latin
Date Range:: 1717
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4897
Title:
Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XLI (ff. 271). Medical treatises, receipts, etc., mostly by writers of the 14th century, transcribed by several hands, probably in the Netherlands, mainly in 1494-1496. Latin and Low German. The principal items are:- (1) A short treatise in four parts on the plague by J...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Latin, and Low German
Date Range:: 1460-1499
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4898
Title:
Scope & Content:: BANKS COLLECTION. Vol. XLII (ff. 140). Collection of medical receipts; 15th cent. Begins (f. 25) 'Nota quod dicimus illam-medicinam esse calidam' and continues on ff. 25b-130b (contemporary foliation 1-104b), being followed by an alphabetical index (ff. 131-136b) giving references to the origina...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4899
Title:: Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermones
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a selection of the Sermones (Sermons) by Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090, d. 1153), abbot of Clairvaux and one of the leading theologians of the 12th century. The manuscript was produced in England in the 12th century and belonged to the Carthusian abbey of Witham in the 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4900
Title:: Banks collection. Vol. XLIV. Miscellaneous writings, ornamented with initials, portraits of saints, royal arms, etc., cut from a printed book.
Scope & Content:: The principal items are:- (1) Fragments of a transcript of a calendar (latest date 1537), for the months of May to October, giving the dates on which fairs are held in those months in various towns of England and Wales (Carmarthen). A few dates are also given in the lives of British sovereigns...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4909
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. I (ff. 106). Transcripts made for Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch of the musical portions of Cotton MS. Tiberius B. ix; early 18th cent. Viz.:-Treatises:- (a) compiled by Robert de Handlo from Franco of Paris. ff. 1-11;- (b) by Egidius de Muris. ff. llb-17b;- (c) by Walter ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4912
Title:
Scope & Content:: HAWKINS COLLECTION. Vol. IV (ff. 160). Transcript made for Dr. Pepusch of the greater part of the musical treatises in the Waltham Abbey MS. (i.e. Lansdowne MS. 763), which was written by John Wylde circa 1460; early 18th cent. Latin and English. The names of the writers are given in the Index o...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4914
Title:: Hawkins Collection. Vol. VI. 'Brevis Musicae Isagoge', by Johann Fries of Zurich
Scope & Content:: Settings of works by classical authors, for 4 equal voices, scored from 1555. From the printed edition, the dedication of which is dated 1554, it appears that only one of the parts (retained from the original edition of 1550) was by Frisius himself, the other three being added by his friend Hen...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (15 folios)

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