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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15233
Title:: Volume of music, plays, religious songs and poems, possibly connected with St Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate
Scope & Content:: A manuscript containing organ music, the incomplete text of John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (c. 1540), and religious songs and poems. Several leaves (including the first seven) are missing. ff. 1-10: John Redford (Master of the singing boys at St Paul's School), Organ fantasias, writ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1555
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15248
Title:: Bible moralisée
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bible moralisée, a picture Bible containing excerpts from the Old and New Testaments, with a moralising commentary, ff. 1r-3v: Preface, incipit, 'Comment la sainte scripture se puet exposer en quatre manieres'; ff. 3v-15v: Preface, incipit 'Cy commence la declaration de plusieurs ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1455
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15254
Title:: The first volume of a five-part Latin Bible
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a five-part Latin Vulgate Bible (the other volumes are Add MS 15255-15258). This volume contains the Old Testament books of Genesis to Ruth. The Bible was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Liège, where it was restored by Abbot Egidius Briamont in 1657 (see insc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15705
Title:: Biblia pauperum
Scope & Content:: Contents: Part of a Biblia Pauperum (Paupers' Bible) representing Christ's Passion in alternating pages of text and images. Decoration: 12 full-page framed series of pen-drawings in groups of 5 or 6, consisting of an image from the life of Christ above, with two images from the Old Testame...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15760
Title:: Henricus Martellus Germanus, Insularium illustratum
Scope & Content:: This volume is one of only five surviving manuscripts of the Insularium illustratum (Illustrated Book of Islands), a descriptive atlas of island maps, made by Henricus Martellus Germanus (also known as Heinrich Hammer), a German miniaturist and cartographer who was active in Florence between 148...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1490
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16165
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece; Edward of Norwich, The Master of the Game; John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas, and other literary works, written by John Shirley
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a compilation of works in Middle English and Latin, written by John Shirley (b. c. 1366, d. 1456). Shirley was secretary to Richard Beauchamp (b. 1382, d. 1439), 13th Earl of Warwick, as well as a translator and scribe who is now best known for his transcriptions of works by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 1423-1439
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16438
Title:: Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; Angelus Politianus, Orfeo
Scope & Content:: Contents: A Venetian compilation of Italian Renaissance drama and poetry written for the Ariani family (a noble family of Venice). ff. 1r-v: Niccolò da Correggio, Prologue to Cephalo; ff. 2r-21v: Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; ff. 21v-28v: Angelo Ambrogini, (nicknamed 'Politianus'), Orfeo; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 1497
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16605
Title:: Sacramentarium Gregorianum with supplements by Benedict of Aniane
Scope & Content:: The Gregorian Sacramentary is a collection of prayers created in the time of Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604) for the Pope's recitation of the Eucharistic liturgy in Rome's churches. Between 810 and 814 the Benedictine monk and monastic reformer Benedict of Aniane (b. c. 750, d. 821) selected ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 850 - c 900
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16912
Title:: Extracts by Ismael Boulliau from Greek and Latin manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Extracts by Ismaël Boulliau (Ismaël Bullialdus) (1605-1694) from Greek and Latin manuscripts in the Royal Library and other libraries.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17182
Title:: Egarātā marmiyātā d-ḥakímā parsāyā - ܐܕܪܬܐ ܡܪܡܝܬܐ ܕܚܟܝܡܐ ܦܪܣܝܐ
Scope & Content:: A codex of two Syriac texts copied at different times, both of which are imperfect. These are the first and second parts of the works of Aphrates, the contents of which are as follows: Text 1 ff. 2r-11v : An introduction to the works, followed by ܬܣܝܬܐ ܕܣܝܡܢܘܬܐ; ff. 11v-23r : ܬܚܘܝܬܐ ܕܚܘܒܐ; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 474-512
Extent:: 2 texts, 175 ff.

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