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211. Add MS 32058, ff 1-4

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Add MS 32058, ff 1-4
Title:
Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts
Scope & Content:
ff. 1-4: Seven historiated initials from Italian manuscripts of the 14th century: f. 1r (above): Initial 'I' of God creating the earth above, and God creating Adam below; on the reverse are three 4-line staves with musical notation and three lines of fragmentary text. f. 1r (below): Initial '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

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212. Add MS 32058, ff 5-8

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Add MS 32058, ff 5-8
Title:
Four leaves from a Bible in Latin with historiated initials
Scope & Content:
Four leaves from a Bible in Latin: f. 5r-v: A leaf from St Jerome's preface to the book of Kings, begins 'Viginti duas esse litteras ap[u]d hebreos', with a historiated initial, 'V' of a scholar with a halo teaching two figures from a book; the partial border contains a cleric holding a book re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 32058

213. Add MS 32058, ff 9-22

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Add MS 32058, ff 9-22
Title:
Fourteen leaves (one fragmentary) from a Bible in Latin, the 'Teutonic Knights Bible'
Scope & Content:
Fourteen leaves (one fragmentary) from volume 2 of a Latin Bible in three volumes ('The Teutonic Knights Bible'). Other leaves are now London, Victoria and Albert Museum, nos 9036A to 9036Z, 9036Z/A, 9036F/1, D.544 to D.599. No part of volume I (Genesis to II Chronicles) is known to survive and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

Part of Add MS 32058

214. Add MS 32246

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Add MS 32246
Title:
Fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano with the 'Elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar', glossaries, and Ælfric's Colloquy
Scope & Content:
The main text of this manuscript is a fragment of Excerptiones de Prisciano, copied in the first decade of the eleventh century, probably at Abingdon; the rest of the manuscript is now in Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 (formerly MS 47). Förster has reconstructed what the original colla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

215. Add MS 33241

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Add MS 33241
Title:
Encomium Emmae reginae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an account praising Emma (d. 1052), the second consort of both Æthelred II (d. 1016), king of England, and Cnut (d. 1035), king of England, Denmark and Norway. The work was composed by a Flemish monk at Emma's behest. This manuscript also contains an image of the author ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

216. Add MS 34124

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Add MS 34124
Title:
Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the oldest and best copy of the Vita Prima Sanctae Brigidae (The First Life of St Brigit), which survives in 26 complete copies and 1 fragmentary copy. The Vita Prima is one of the earliest lives of St Brigit of Kildare (b. 439/452, d. 542/526), patron saint of Kildare, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Mid 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

217. Add MS 34209

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Add MS 34209
Title:
Antiphonal and Gradual of Ambrosian use
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

218. Add MS 34652

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Add MS 34652
Title:
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2: Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899); f. 3: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60–62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; ff. 4-43: A collection of leaves from manuscripts from the 12th to the 15t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment and paper codex

219. Add MS 34652, f 3

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Add MS 34652, f 3
Title:
Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) in Latin and Old English; the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191. Decoration: Initial in red; chapter numbers in large Roman numerals in brown.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
1025-1050
Extent:
1 folio, part of a parchment codex

220. Add MS 34652, ff 44-61

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Add MS 34652, ff 44-61
Title:
Facsimiles of medieval manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Contents: Facsimiles of legal, and liturgical manuscripts and engravings, including engravings of King David from Royal MS 15 D iii, f. 268r (f. 45), the Evangelist portraits from the Lindisfarne Gospels, Cotton Nero MS D IV: St Mark, f. 93v, St Luke, f. 137v, St John, f. 209v, St Matthew, f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
18 paper folios

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