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1. Add MS 11849

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Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a 9th-century Gospel book produced perhaps in Tours in the Franco-Saxon style. It was copied by the same scribe who wrote Paris, BnF, MS lat. 267 from the school of Tours (see Rand, 'Franco-Saxon Ornamentation in a Book of Tours' (1929), 214-215). The manuscript incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 18855

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a Book of Hours, made in Tours in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Two leaves from a Flemish calendar illuminated by the artist Simon Bening (b. c. 1483, d. 1561) were added to the volume (ff. 108 and 109), probably in the first half of the 19th century. They were subseq...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 35254 V

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Title:
Detached miniature from a Book of Hours ('The Hours of Louis XII')
Scope & Content:
This single leaf originally belonged to a Book of Hours, known as 'The Hours of Louis XII', after Louis XII (r. 1498-1515), King of France, for whom it was made. The recto contains a framed miniature of the Virgin of the Annunciation, praying with an open book on her knees. The verso contains th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1498
Extent:

1 leaf

4. Add MS 35320

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Title:
Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

5. Add MS 37421

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Title:
Fragment from the Book of Hours (the 'Hours of Etienne Chevalier')
Scope & Content:
1 miniature by Jean Fouquet from the book of hours, comissioned by Etienne Chevalier (d. 1474) and therefore known as the 'Hours of Étienne Chevalier'. 47 other remaining miniatures excised from this manuscript are in the Musée Condé at Chantilly (40 miniatures), Paris, Louvre, Dépatement des Ar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1452-1461
Extent:

1 leaf

6. Add MS 47678

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Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
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This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

7. Egerton MS 609

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Egerton MS 609
Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is part of the 'Irish-Northumbrian' group, according to Marsden, 'The Gospels of St Augustine' (1999), p. 290 and n. 25. It was probably copied by an Insular scribe, according to Glunz, History of the Vulgate in England (1933), no. 31. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Epistle of St Jerome ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Egerton MS 2802

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Egerton MS 2802
Title:
Cartulaire de Quimperlé (Quimperle) the Cartulary of the abbey of the Holy Cross at Quimperlé, Brittany
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4v-8r, Life of St. Gurthiern, in three parts. Part i. incipit: 'Haec est genealogia Sancti Gurthierni nobilis genere, incliti officio, quam quidam laieus fidelis nomine iuthael filius aidan demonstravit' (f. 4v). Part ii. incipit: 'Incipit vero conversatio Sancti Gurthierni secun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1100-1755
Extent:

A parchment codex, 164 folios

9. Egerton MS 2831

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Egerton MS 2831
Title:
Jerome, Commentarium in Isaiam, book 14 to book 18
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is thought to date from before Alcuin's arrival at the abbey of Marmoutiers (or Saint-Martin de Tours) in 796, on the basis of the owner inscription (see Provenance). It is one of the surviving witnesses of the early collaboration between Insular and Continental scribes at the Be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Harley MS 2689

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Harley MS 2689
Title:
Terence, Comoediae, with prologues and arguments
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of the Comoediae (Comedies) of the Roman African playwright Publius Terentius Afer (b. c. 195/185, d. c. 159 BC), commonly known as Terence. Contents: ff. 1r-39r: Terence, Andria; ff. 39r-81v: Terence, Eunuchus; ff. 8v-121v: Terence, Heauton Timorumenos; f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

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