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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 7 D II
Title:: Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 E XX
Title:: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio; Galen, De arte curativa ad Glauconem; Pseudo-Galen, Ad Glauconem liber tertius; Liber Aureliani; Liber Esculapii; De podagra; Pseudo-Oribasius, commentary on Hippocrates's Aphorims;Medicina Plinii; Gargilius Martialis, Medicina ex oleribus et pomis; Liber dietarum diversorum medicorum; Excerpt from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; an anonymous Antidotary; and medical charms and recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-32r: A commentary on Hippocrates, Aphorism attributed to Aptalio and based on an early translation of Hippocrates's work dating to the 6th century, beginning: 'Incipit expositio Aptalionis in .vii. libros Aforismorum Ypocratis. Vita brevis ars autem prolixa, tempus vero velox'....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 15 A XVI, ff 74-84
Title:: Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Irishman (b. 819, d. 875), Scholica graecarum glossarum; alphabetical glossary of words chiefly of Greek origin: Decoration: Initial and rubric in red (f. 74v). Added in the 11th century: full page outline drawing of a Romanesque building with towers (f. 84 u...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Mid 10th century
Extent:: Part of Royal MS 15 A XVI

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 1580
Title:: Collection of sermons, moral and theological sentences, poems, hymns with monophonic and polyphonic music, prayers, tracts on law, grammar and the computus; including Samson of Canterbury, Excerptae ex diversis voluminibus;Walter of Châtillon, Carmina; De Clarevallensibus et Cluniacensibus; Questiones Adriani Imperatoris Secundo philosopho in silencio philosophantis;Charm against infirmities;Adam of Saint-Victor, Lux iucunda lux insignis; De hominum deificatione (excerpt); Philippe de Thaon,...
Scope & Content:: This 13th-century miscellany mainly contains theological and liturgical works, including monophonic and polyphonic music. However, it also includes a copy of the Comput (Computus), the oldest extant scientific text in the vernacular, that Philippe de Thaon (fl. 1113-1150), the first Anglo-Norman...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Stowe MS 57
Title:: Scutum Bede, a collection of Latin treatises, including a Libellus de nominibus naturalium rerum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of a compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises in prose and verses including interlinear and marginal glosses, probably collected by Geoffrey of Ufford (fl. c. 1154) and entitled 'Scutum Bede Collectivus Gaufridi de Ufford' (f. 1r); this appears to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old, French, Old, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1154
Extent:: 1 volume

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