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1. Add Ch 28654

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Title:
Arbitration between Elizabeth of Katzenelenbogen, abbess of St Mary’s in the Capitol in Cologne, and Herman of Hachinberch, canon of the same church
Scope & Content:
Notarial copy of an arbitration between Elizabeth of Katzenelenbogen, abbess of St Mary’s in the Capitol in Cologne, and Herman of Hachinberch, canon of the same church; dated 30 January 1352, at vespers, with the notary mark and notarial certificate of Rurgerus de Hillsheynr, imperial notary of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
[30 Jan 1352]
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add MS 5220

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Title:
‘Drawings of animals, monsters, skeletons, etc.’ from the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, by different hands
Scope & Content:
Album of drawings by miscellaneous hands and of differing origin and date. The pages are not numbered. The drawings are listed as numbered items in pencil (1928). Folio number refers to the digital foliation. [f. 1] 1. Drawings of fish; pen, ink and wash; signed bottom right ‘HG fecit’; Insc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 drawings)

3. Add MS 27920

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Title:
A noted Breviary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 166

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Arundel MS 166
Title:
Marcellus Empiricus, De medicamentis (extracts); Liber Teropetici; recipes and short medical texts
Scope & Content:
This is a composite medical manuscript made up of two separate sections (ff. 3r-13v and ff. 14r-90) both from the 9th century, bound together at an unknown date. The first section (ff. 3r-13v) contains De Medicamentis (About Remedies) by Marcellus Empiricus (fl. 4th century); the second section ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Harley MS 1725

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Harley MS 1725
Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum and other texts
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. The volume is an early 16th-century copy of the Wiesbaden Codex, also known as the 'Riesencodex' (now Wiesbaden,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 2652

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Harley MS 2652
Title:
Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius, Commentary on Cicero's Somnium Scipionis; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC)’s Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio), Macrobius (fl. 400)'s commentary on it, as well as Calcidius (4th century)’s commentary of Plato (b. 429 BC, d. 347 BC)’s dialogue Timaeus (Timaios). These philosophical works stood as the basis of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

7. Harley MS 2713

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Harley MS 2713
Title:
Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae (excerpts from books 1-2); Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Boethius's commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of three different parts, bound together at the early modern period. The first part (ff. 1r-34v) was produced in Northeastern France, in the fourth quarter of the 9th century. The second part (ff. 35r-42v) was written in 12th-century France, while the last volume (ff. 4...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
9th century-12th century
Extent:

1 volume

8. Harley MS 3008

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Harley MS 3008
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, De Medela animae and Tractatus ex Epistola Sancti Johannis; Passio Altera Sancti Andreae Apostoli
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two theological works by St Augustine of Hippo and a work concerning the miracles and martyrdom of St Andrew (Passio Altera Sancti Andreae apostoli). Its place of origin is unknown but it was probably produced in France or Germany: other copies of the Passio that have be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

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