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161. Add MS 19725

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Title:
A collection of anonymous sermons; Martyrology and Kalendar; Pseudo-Bede, computistical extracts; Regulæ et Instructiones Sacerdotum; Gennadius of Marseille, De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus; Capitula Parisiensia; Liber de Gestis Sanctorum Patrum Miracula
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of pastoral texts compiled in the late 9th century. Contents: ff. 2r-4v: Unidentified sermons, beginning 'Cum igitur fere in omnibus paginis'. ff. 5r-30r: Martyrology (imperfect) and Kalendar, extracted from Usuard (d. 877), beginning 'celebraret in media...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

162. Add MS 19896

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Title:
Apocalypse Picture Book; Apocalypse (Revelation) with a preface by St Jerome and commentary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Apocalypse Picture Book. Apocalypse (Revelation) with a preface of St Jerome and commentary: f. 25r: Prologus: Rubric: 'Incipit argumentum Apocalipsis Iohannis'. Beginning: 'Apocalipsis Iohannis tot habet sacramentum quot verba'. f. 25r-: Preface of St Jerome: Rubric:'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 32 folios.

163. Add MS 19961

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Title:
Cassiodorus-Epiphanius, Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita
Scope & Content:
This manuscript originates from the second half of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 99; Zangemeister, ‘Bericht’ (1876), p. 44). It may have been produced in the Southern Netherlands (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 99; Ganz, ‘Review’) or France (Jacob, Die handschriftliche Überlieferun...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

164. Add MS 21072

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Title:
Census of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a census of lands granted and leased to St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, an order established for former sex-workers. The entries are arranged by parish, each listing the property’s grantor, its extent, an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

165. Add MS 21164

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The lexicon is preceded by a description on the shorthand by Isidore of Seville (b....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

166. Add MS 21177

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Title:
Revenues and expenses of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a list of rents owed to, and pensions paid by, St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, a religious order established for former sex-workers. The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1-10 and ff. 11-18) that w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

167. Add MS 21914

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Title:
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia; A glossary of Hebrew names (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the first third of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 100) was written at the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. The manuscript contains the Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia (Collections of Readings on the Epistles and Gospels), also known as the Expositio Libri ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

168. Add MS 21917

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Title:
Collection of saints' lives
Scope & Content:
This late 10th-century collection of saints’ lives originates from the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. It opens with the lives of the abbey’s first abbots: the life of St Columbanus (b. 543, d. 615) by Jonas of Bobbio (b. c. 600, d. 659); the life of St Eustace (b. c. 560, d. c. 629); and the life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

169. Add MS 21984

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Title:
Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De senectute, a Latin treatise on the subject of aging and death, by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The manuscript's colophon indicates that it was written by Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488), daughter of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

170. Add MS 21986

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Title:
Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Letters) of St Cyprian (b. c. 200, d. 258), bishop of Carthage. Contents: ff. 2r-97r: Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae, beginning: ‘Incipiunt epistolae sancti Cipriani cartaginensis episcopi et martyrii’. [f. 97v is blank]. Decoration: One large initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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