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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89442
Title:: Lewis of Caerleon, collected astronomical and mathematical works
Scope & Content:: An opera omnia of the Welsh physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon (d. in or after 1495), representing the largest and most complete collection of his astronomical and mathematical works. Written under Lewis's supervision, the manuscript contains self-referential rubrics (‘per me Lodowycum ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1485-c 1495
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89542
Title:: Giovanni Battista Gargha, Orationes
Scope & Content:: A presentation copy of the Orationes of Giovanni Battista Gargha of Siena, envoy of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers), made for Fabrizio del Carretto (b. 1455, d. 1521), Italian nobleman and the 43rd Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1513 to 1521. Followed by the c...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1514-c 1522
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89788
Title:: Trilingual dictionary, Psalter, and Hebrew grammar
Scope & Content:: A composite volume containing four discrete parts bound together at Ramsey Abbey in the 13th century. The most notable contents are a Hebrew-Latin-Middle French dictionary (part 2), a Hebrew Psalter with a Latin gloss (part 3), and a Hebrew-Latin grammar (part 4). The dictionary is unique, draws ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: middle of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89789
Title:: The Red Book of Bath
Scope & Content:: The Red Book of Bath (Latin ‘Liber Rubeus Bathoniae’) is an administrative compilation made for the town’s officials. Its texts relate to the regulation of trade and commerce, to law and justice, and to the history of Bath. The manuscript is named after the colour of its medieval binding, which w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1412-1430
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89790
Title:: Richard Rolle’s ‘The Form of Living’ and related works
Scope & Content:: A collection of devotional texts in Hiberno-English, made for a noblewoman living in the region of Dublin. This manuscript is important for containing the works of Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349), in a version dedicated uniquely to his disciple Margaret of Kirkby (d. 1391x1394). It also contai...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89792
Title:: Arma Christi
Scope & Content:: A collection of devotional texts including Arma Christi, written by Theodericus Werken, a Dutch-born scribe resident in London from c. 1450, and decorated by one or more English artists. ff. 1r–6v: John Lydgate, ‘Kalendar’: ‘Ihesu lord fo þi holy Circumcision / In þe bigynnynge of þe newe yere’ (...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1460s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Early 14th century
Title:: LEGAL COLLECTION: early 14th cent. Imperf. at beginning and end. Latin and French. Origin: England. For current bibliographical information on many of theses texts, see Baker and Ringrose (1996), which has an index of manuscripts. Marginal legal memoranda, 15th cent., ff. 43, 94v, 107v, 209. Presented? to the British Museum, date and donor unknown. See Manuscripts Department Archives, Register of Donations to the Department of Manuscripts. . .1756-1837. Vellum; ff. 348. Sec. fol. imperf. a...
Scope & Content:: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Legal collection: initials: early 14th cent. Law OF ENGLAND: Statutes and treatises: early 14th cent: Lat. and Fr. includes: ff. 160-194 Ralph de Hengham, Chief Justice of Common Pleas: 'Fait assovoir', attrib. to: early 14th cent: Fr: Imperf. ff. 160-...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

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