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1. Add MS 11828-12117

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Title:
Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Scope & Content:
Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry: His collection of Mss.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
7th century-19th century
Extent:
296 items

2. Add MS 12081

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Title:
Printed Greek Grammar
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 11885

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Title:
Theocritus, Idyllia; Moschus, Works; Virgil, Eclogae
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
13 items

4. Add MS 12083

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Title:
Lexici Hebraici Compendium (extracts from Buxtorf's Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum)
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
1700-1799
Extent:
53 folios

5. Add MS 12117 B

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Title:
Record of the Capture of Ravenna
Scope & Content:
Purporting to be a record of the capture of the city of Ravenna from the Lombards by Paul, Exarch of Ravenna, with the aid of theVenetians and Bolognese, in the year 724. The inscription forms an actual portion of the Chronicon Venetum, but it is unclear whether the chronicler quotes from this t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
724
Extent:
Latin inscription upon a lamina of lead, in shape and rudely rectangular; consisting of seventeen lines in capital letters. Originally inscribed upon a lamina of lead hammered to a very thing leaf, and from its appearance in 1872, not as pure as the others of the series. At the time, it was remarked that it was very much oxidized by the action of the air, and glued to a piece of card for security.

6. Add MS 11895

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Title:
Collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions, copied by Joseph Ames
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 11849

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Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a 9th-century Gospel book produced perhaps in Tours in the Franco-Saxon style. It was copied by the same scribe who wrote Paris, BnF, MS lat. 267 from the school of Tours (see Rand, 'Franco-Saxon Ornamentation in a Book of Tours' (1929), 214-215). The manuscript incl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

8. Add MS 11883

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Title:
Petrus Riga, Aurora
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-81v: Petrus Riga, Aurora, a commentary on the Bible in Latin verse (first redaction). Begins: 'Frequens sodalium meorum petition cum quibus conversando'. The final book in this copy is the Actus Apostolorum. The Aurora is also found in the following British Library manuscripts...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

9. Add MS 11847

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Title:
Psalter ('The Alheide Psalter')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is known as the 'Alheide Psalter' after its scribe, who identifies herself as 'Alheide' in a colophon (f. 186r). It was probably produced in a convent in central Germany, perhaps Thuringia, for an aristocratic female patron (see Kaufmann, 'The Alheide Psalter' (2010), pp. 125–139...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 12117 E

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Title:
Proclamation of Charlemagne on Assumption of Western Empire
Scope & Content:
A decree of the Emperor Charlemagne on his assumption of the Western Empire; he assumes new titles, fixes boundaries, and elaborates on the status of several areas. Dated Bologna, xiv Kal. Oct. DCCCI (18 September 801).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
801
Extent:
A very thin leaf of hammered lead, rectangular in shape, now much cracked and oxidized. Bearing a Latin inscription consisting of thirteen lines in capital letters. Two horizontal lines followed by a small gap, followed by 9 lines with a small gap before the final two lines with the monograph of Charlemagne at its conclusion.