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Language Latin Name Orosius, Paulus, c 380-c 418, http://isni.org/isni/000000... http://viaf.org/viaf/2479624 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. Add MS 24144

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Add MS 24144
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum libri adversus paganos (fragments)
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of fragments of a copy of the Historiae Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans) by Paulus Orosius (fl. 5th century) that was written in the 1st quarter of the 8th century. The palaeographical features of the fragments suggest that the text may have been written in Nort...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

Parchment fragments

2. Add MS 47967

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Add MS 47967
Title:
Orosius, Historia adversus paganos ('The Old English Orosius' or 'The Tollemache Orosius' )
Scope & Content:
The Tollemache Orosius (also known as the Lauderdale Orosius or Helmingham Hall 46) contains the oldest known copy of the Old English translation of Orosius's Historia adversus paganos. The compiler condensed this text in some places and augmented it in others to explain classical allusions and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
900-1699
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 216

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 216
Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (imperfect); Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia; Constantinus Africanus, De Melancholia; Peter Abelard, Carmen ad Astralabium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-88v: Paulus Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans), imperfect, starting at a Nino beli filio rege Assyriorum; preceded by a capitula list (ff. 2v-4v). ff. 89r-93v: Pseudo-Dares Phrygius, De Excidio Troiae Historia (On the destruction of Troy), followed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex