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221. Add MS 42132

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Title:
Fifty-six leaves (mainly non-consecutive) from a breviary (pars estivalis) compiled for use in the diocese of Agen, in France, with music.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript in its present state contains parts of the following offices:- (1) Temporale, 7th-22nd Sundays after Pentecost, ff. 1-12;-(2) Sanctorale, SS. Ambrose and Isidore (4 Apr.)-St Romanus of Blaye (24 Nov.), ff. 13- 52;-(3) Commune sanctorum, ff. 53-55. Included in the Sanctorale are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

56 folios

222. Add MS 42497

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Title:
Scenes from the life of John the Baptist
Scope & Content:
Contents: Scenes from the life of John the Baptist, perhaps illustrating the Hortus Deliciarum, originally a polyptych for private devotion or a flabellum (liturgical fan). Verses in Latin on the life of John the Baptist accompanying the images beneath, incipit, 'Nomen dant illi Iohannes grat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1200
Extent:

A parchment strip previously folded as a polyptych or flabellum

223. Add MS 42555

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Title:
Apocalypse ('The Abingdon Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Content: Apocalypse in Latin with extracts on alternate pages from a French translation of the Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis, a commentary by Berengaudus. Begins with a five-line French prologue in red and gold. Incipit (f. 5r): 'Ici comence lapokalipse'. Explicit (f. 5r): ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 85 folios

224. Add MS 44874

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Title:
Psalter in Latin with additions ('The Evesham Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-5v, Calendar of the use of the abbey of Evesham, Worcestershire, lacking the months of May, June, July and August. ff. 6v-202r, Psalter, preceded and followed by prayers. ff. 202v-219v, Canticles and Athanasian Creed. ff. 220r-226r, Litany and prayers. The Litany includes th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
after 1246-1325
Extent:

1 volume

225. Add MS 45025

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Title:
Bible fragment from the Book of Kings ('the Ceolfrith or Ceolfrid Bible')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 10 folios, with fragments of an eleventh, from a Bible in the Vulgate version, containing parts of the third and fourth books of Kings, as follows: ff. 1r–4v, 3 Kings 21:17–22:4; IV Kings 1:1–3:25; ff. 5r–6v, 4 Kings 8:27–10:19, imperfect; ff 7r–8v, 4 Kings 15:12–17:15; ff. 9r–v,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
690-716
Extent:

10 folios from a parchment codex

226. Add MS 45722

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours')
Scope & Content:
Full-page miniature in colours and gold, of the Adoration of the Magi, introducing Sext in the Hours of the Virgin. This leaf was originally intended to form part of the 'Sforza Hours', the Book of Hours commissioned from the artist Giovan Pietro Birago by Bona Sforza, Duchess of Milan in 1490, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490-1494
Extent:

1 parchment folio.

227. Add MS 46144

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Title:
LACOCK ABBEY MAGNA CARTA 46144. MAGNA CARTA 1225: the exemplification of the Great Charter of Liberties granted by Henry III at Westminster, 11 Feb. 1225, that was sent to the county of Wiltshire and subsequently deposited at Lacock Abbey (see further below). No contemporary enrolment of the charter's text survives, but the Red Book of the Exchequer, in the Public Record Office, contains an early transcript (E. 164/2, ff. 183-184). Two other surviving exemplifications are respectively among...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Magna Carta: 1225.: Lat. Lacock Abbey; Wiltshire: Magna Carta from: 1225. Henry III of England: Magna Carta: 1225: Great Seal.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1225
Extent:
1 item

228. Add MS 47672

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Title:
Bible ('The Bible of Antipope Clement VII')
Scope & Content:
This Bible in Latin ('Bible of Antipope Clement VII') is large and lavishly illuminated and was likely produced in Naples c. 1330. The manuscript apparently later belonged to the Antipope Clement VII (Robert of Geneva), elected 1378, d. 1394; his coat of arms appears 28 times within the manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:

Parchment codex

229. Add MS 47674

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Title:
Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), with parallel Latin text
Scope & Content:
Psalms and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), followed by the Athanasian Creed, with parallel Latin text throughout. The manuscript includes several additions, corrections and annotations by the Paduan grammarian Pietro da Montagnana: f. 1v: An excerpt from Nicholas of Lyra, title: 'Nicolaus de Lyra de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c 1220-c 1230
Extent:

142 folios

230. Add MS 47674, ff 2r-130v

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Scope & Content:
Psalms of David in the Septuagint version, not including Psalm 151, with parallel Latin text.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c 1220-c 1230
Extent:
129 folios

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