Osbern, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury, composed this version of the Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan) between c.1089 and c.1093. This is thought to be the earliest of some twenty manuscripts of the text, and it may have been the original Christ Church copy (Alexander, Romanesque...
Liber Historie Francorum; Excidium Troiae; Annales Mettenses Priores
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Contents: This manuscript consists of the Liber Historie Francorum (the History of the Franks) in its Austrasian reworking (Austrasia was a Merovingian kingdom situated in the North-East of France), followed by the anonymous Excidium Troiae (The Destruction of Troy) and a part of the Annales Me...
This is the second volume of a four-volume set; the others are Arundel 103, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 462; the fourth volume is missing. Contents: ff. 1r-170v: Ludolphus de Saxonia (index Ludolf of Saxony), Vita Christi (pars II). Decoration: 1 large puzzle initial in red ...
Contents: f. 1r: Notated antiphon ‘Audite o lucis filie’ from the Epithalamium in the Speculum Virginum; musical notation: neumes on 4-line staves. ff. 1v-129v: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum; this work is in the form of a dialogue between the teacher, a Benedictine named Peregrinus, ...
Codex membranaceus, in 4to. ampliori, ff. 26, a quodam Wernhero exaratus, sec. xiii. vol. xiv. 1. Quæstiones super librum Aristotelis de anima. fol. 1. Incip. "Sicut dicit Commentator prologo 8vi. phisicorum." Ad calcem hæc, "Scriptoris munus sit bos bonus aut equus unus." 2. Quæstiones super ...
This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf from the opening of a large illuminated Gradual, made in Ghent between 1480 and 1483. The Gradual was probably commissioned by Margaret of York (b. 1446, d. 1503), duchess of Burgundy, whose arms (formulated after her marriage in 1468 to Charles t...