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231. Add MS 37472, f 5

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Title:
A cutting from a choir book
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 5r: A historiated initial 'A' in colours with gold, of a deacon, probably an Olivetan, sprinkling holy water, with foliate decoration; f. 5v: A partial four-line stave with musical notation and the letters '…n de'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1400-1499
Extent:
Parchment cutting in a window mount

232. Add MS 37472, f 6

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Title:
Cuttings from a liturgical book
Scope & Content:
Contents: These fragments come from an important missal from Toulouse, probably cut by William Young Ottley. The decoration is attributed to Antoine de Lonhy (see Castaño, 'Un somptueux missel toulousain' (2020), 75-76). f. 6r: 6 historiated initials in gold on rose and blue grounds, arrange...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
6 parchment cuttings in a window mount

233. Add MS 37472, f 7

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Title:
A cutting from a Prayer book
Scope & Content:
A framed miniature of the Death of the Virgin in colours with gold, with prayers on the verso.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1475-1499
Extent:
Parchment cutting in a window mount

234. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

235. Add MS 37518

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-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 manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

236. Add MS 37656

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Title:
Wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund of Woodstock, sons of Edward I and Margaret of France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the wardrobe account of Thomas of Brotherton (b. 1300, d. 1338), and Edmund of Woodstock (b. 1301, d. 1330), afterwards Earls of Norfolk and Kent. Princes Thomas and Edmund were the fifth and sixth sons of King Edward I (r. 1272-1307), and the oldest by his second marria...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1305
Extent:
1 volume

237. Add MS 38116

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Title:
Psalter ('The Huth Psalter')
Scope & Content:
This Psalter is notable for the prefatory image cycle of 11 full-page illuminations, some of which exhibit unusual subject matter. Entries in the calendar and litany of northern English saints, including St Hugh of Lincoln (in blue), suggest a Lincolnshire or Yorkshire origin, and it was likely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1280-1300
Extent:

A parchment codex.

238. Add MS 38121

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Title:
'Picture-Book' of the life of St John the Evangelist; St Jerome's Preface; Apocalypse
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: 'Picture-book' of the life of St John the Evangelist. f. 3r: Preface of Jerome followed by a table of contents. Rubric: 'Incipit prefatio Sancti Iheronimi presbitri (sic), in Apocalipsi Sancti Johannis'. Beginning: 'Johannes, apostolus et evangelista, a Domino Christo elec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

1 volume

239. Add MS 38130

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Title:
Vita Sancti Neoti; Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the early 12th century mainly contains a life and sermons concerning the 9th-century Benedictine monk St Neot, and the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) by the Benedictine monk Bede (b. 672/3, d. 735). Its script and op...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

240. Add MS 38603

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Title:
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Seven Penitential Psalms and other prayers ('The Prayer book of King Alexander of Poland')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of prayers which were selected, as the colophon suggests, at the request of prince Alexander of Poland, including: ff. 1r-15r: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Seven Penitential Psalms, dedicated to Sacramor de Pommier, rubric: 'Francisci petrarce poete laureati p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1491
Extent:

Parchment codex

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