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1. Add MS 54229-54323*

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Title:
MILLAR BEQUEST
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum by Dr Eric George Millar (1887-1966), Keeper of Manuscripts 1944-1947. See also Add. 54179-54180 and Add. Chs. 75641-75722. See The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967. A Commemorative Volume. BMQ, xxxiii, 1-2 (1968). Acquire...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1150-1999]
Extent:
95 items

2. Add MS 54229-54246

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Title:
A. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1150-1570]
Extent:
18 items

3. Add MS 54319-54323

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Title:
F. CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF ERIC GEORGE MILLAR.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1903-1960]
Extent:
5 items

4. Add MS 54235

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Title:
Vulgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains both the Old and New Testament books of the Vulgate. The manuscript probably originates from Northern France. The style of its decoration is associated by Robert Branner (Manuscript Painting, 1977) with the Johannes Grusch Atelier: a group of Parisian artists active from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

5. Add MS 54242

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XVI. Carthusian Hymnal, written in South-East Germany; early 15th cent. Latin. Liturgical use and origin are indicated by the title of the Litany, 'Letania ordinis carthusiensis maior' (f. 15v), and by its inclusion of St Achatius whose vita was a 14th-cent. invention. Achat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 54239

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XIII. 'Legenda Aurea' of Jacobus de Voragine, written in Germany; early 14th cent. Latin. Extracts, namely chapters ii, iii, lvii, iv-xv. The full text was first printed in the original Latin version at Strasburg, 1472-1474, at Basel, bef. 1475, and at Paris, 1475. Turner, o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 54234

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. VIII. The Sapiential Books, glossed, written and illuminated in northern France; circa 1225-1250. Latin. Turner, op. cit., BMQ, xxxiii, pp. 23-24, pl. IX. On the development of glossed books of the Bible, see C. F. R. de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1225-1250
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 54240

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XIV. Sermons, with other items of a devotional nature and some miscellaneous material, written in Germany; mid-late 14th cent. Latin. The sermons provide for the temporal and the sanctoral, 'De communi', 'De mortuis' etc. Possibly of Franciscan origin, see art. 8 below. Turn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 54229

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Title:
Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

10. Add MS 54238

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XII. Noted Pontifical, written in France; mid 14th cent. Fragment. Latin. Turner, op. cit., BMQ, xxxiii, p. 29. Essentially a version of the Romano-Germanic Pontifical of the 10th cent. (see ibid.). Letter concerning the coronation rite from Paul Ward to Millar, n.d. (f. i)....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 14th century
Extent:
1 item