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91. Add MS 14042

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Title:
Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a large section of rosaries and prayers dedicated to the Virgin Mary (ff. 5r-245v), followed by prayers dedicated to Christ and saints, and prayers for Communion. The manuscript contains a large number of pasted and sewn in coloured woodcuts and engravings....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
1517-1523
Extent:

1 volume

92. Add MS 14055

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Title:
Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
Scope & Content:
A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+224+v

93. Add MS 14056

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Title:
Three Mamluk treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:
(1) Anonymous collection of lance drills (ff. 1v-10v); (2) Fragment of anonymous treatise on the arts of the lance (ff. 11r-18v); (3) Kitāb fī ‘ilm al-bayṭarah (كتاب في علم البيطرة; ff. 19r-123v).
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
870
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+124+vi

94. Add MS 14250

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Title:
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Plympton annals for the years 1066-1177
Scope & Content:
This is the only extant manuscript from the Augustinian priory of Saints Peter and Paul in Plympton. The manuscript contains a copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) that Bede (d. 673, d. 735), a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Monk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

95. Add MS 14252

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Title:
Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

96. Add MS 14332

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Title:
Four treatises on conic sections
Scope & Content:
A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts. Contents: (1) Clavius, Christophorus ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
26 Dec 1834
Extent:

Codex; ff. v+201+v

97. Add MS 14399

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A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
Scope & Content:
passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

98. Add MS 14784

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Title:
St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia; St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; St Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents. f. 2r: Excerpt from St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Retractationes (Retractions) (Book 2, chapter 53), beginning: 'Scripsi duos libros ad illustrem virum Valerium comitem'. ff. 2r-3r: St Augustine, Epistola ad Volusianum (Epistle to Volusianus), beginning...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

99. Add MS 15102

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Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum, Ordo virtutum, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. One of these works is her Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues), one of the earliest examples of an allegoric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1487
Extent:
1 volume

100. Add MS 15103

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Title:
Collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by Martha Felderin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-228r: a collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by the scribe and nun Martha Felderin, beginning with an incomplete list of contents (f.1r) and ending with a colophon (f. 228r). ff. 1v, 106v-107v, 197v and 228v are blank. Decoration: Large initials in blue with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1488
Extent:
1 volume

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