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201. Add MS 27926

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Title:
Gospels of St Luke and St John
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second half of a Gospel-book, comprising the Gospels of St Luke and St John, made in Germany at the end of the 12th century and later housed in the library of the Augustinian nunnery of St Peter and St Paul, Heiningen, in the diocese of Hildesheim, lower Saxony. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

202. Add MS 28188

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Title:
Pontifical with litanies and benedictional (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a partial Pontifical and a partial Benedictional. The manuscript's distinctive 'Exeter-style' script and the presence of saints especially venerated at Exeter in the litanies, like Pancras and Sativola/Sidwell, suggest it was made at Exeter Cathedral between about 1050 a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

203. Add MS 28260

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Title:
Moral and didactic texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: inserted leaves containing fragments of grammatical treatises in Latin in a 13th-century hand; ff. 3r-33v: Philip of Novara (Philippe de Novare) (b. 1195, d. c. 1270), Les Quatre Ages de l'Homme, a treatise on the four ages of Man, composed between 1265 and 1270 in the Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 101 folios

204. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

205. Add MS 29276

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Title:
Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany). The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the Law of Moses and the punishment of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

206. Add MS 29972

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Title:
St Augustine, Homilies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary collection of sermons by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 1st quarter of the 8th century, and written in a type of Merovingian minuscule cursive that is associated with the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil, one of the oldest monast...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

207. Add MS 29987

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Title:
Madrigals, ballads, and motets by Italian composers (mainly anonymous), including: Jacobus de Bolonia. Johannes de Florentia. Franciscus de Florentia. Frater Bartolinus de Padova. Giovanni de Chascina. Ser Lorenzo, prete di Firenze Ser Gheradello. Bonavitus Corsini, pitor. Frate Andrea de ser Vi. Donato da Chascina. Frate Vincenzo. Nicholo del Proposto. Frate Guigliemo di S. Spirito. Francescho degli Organni. Don Paghollo. Rosso de Chollegrana.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-69b passim. 'Madriali,' 'Ballate,' 'Cacce,' etc., by little-known Italian composers of the 14th century. There are similar collections in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at Florence (87) and in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. Unless the contrary is stated, the compositions are for 2 voice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:

1 volume (88 folios)

208. Add MS 31031

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob (part 1, books 1-5)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-145v: Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), Moralia in Iob (Commentary on Job), part 1, books 1-5, beginning with the dedicatory epistle to Leander: 'Reverendissimo et sanctissimo fratri Leandro coepiscopo Gregorius servus servorum Dei. Dudum te frater beatissime in Constantinopolitana...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

209. Add MS 31922

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Title:
A collection of songs, ballads, and instrumental pieces, composed early in the reign of Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
passim. Compositions for 3 voices (unless the contrary is stated), in parts, apparently written early in the reign of Henry VIII (see for 1882-1887, p. 7). {Severeal published by the Roxburghe Club in 1912} {See J. E. Stevens 'Rounds and Canons from an early Tudor Song Book', Music and Letters,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume (129 folios)

210. Add MS 32058

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Title:
Cuttings and leaves from illuminated manuscripts, including the Teutonic Knights Bible
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a series of cuttings from liturgical manuscripts and leaves from two Latin Bibles bound together, one known as the Teutonic Knights Bible. Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts. ff. 5r-8v: Four leaves from a Bible in L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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