Collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Collection of grammatical rules for young students of the Latin language, beginning: 'How mani maner of ways schall thou begynne to make laten and counstru v maner off wayes // The first att the Vocayve case'; written by 'F. Framton' (f. 35r). ff. 12r-38v: Treatise on La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
A composite manuscript including: A list of contents (f. 1v); John Chrysostom, Homilies 1-30 (ff. 2r-62r); Augustine of Hippo, Sermones (Sermo 173) (ff. 63r- 64v); Isidore of Seville, De Differentis (ff. 65v-89r); Bede, De Natura Rerum (ff. 90r-99r); Anselm, De libero arbitrio (ff. 100r-10...
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...
Register of gersumae (payments, premiums or fines), recording land transfers, marriage licences and exodus fines from the manorial villages of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire. Formerly known as the ‘Ramsey Abbey Court Book’. Calen...
f. 1r: Letter from William Nicolson to Humfrey Wanley. ff. 3r–5r: Memoranda, added in the 14th century. ff. 6r–113v: General cartulary, arranged topographically. Includes copies of royal and episcopal charters, mainly in the first section for Little Dunmow. ff. 114r–130v: Miscellaneous additi...
Contents: ff. 1r-82r: Giannozzo Manetti, De dignitate hominis. The text is dedicated to Alfonso, king of Aragon. Decoration: Three-sided white vine border with a white vine initial in colours and gold and, in the lower margin, two putti supporting a wreath intended for a coat of arms. A flo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Contents: ff. 1r-109r: Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Fasti. ff. 109v-112r: a calendar of Roman festivals based on Ovid's Fasti from January to June. ff. 113v-115r: a poem in rhyming couplets about the birth of Christ in Italian. The manuscript has a later addition: f.117r: Guarinus Veronensi...