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171. Add MS 21917

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Title:
Collection of saints' lives
Scope & Content:
This late 10th-century collection of saints’ lives originates from the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. It opens with the lives of the abbey’s first abbots: the life of St Columbanus (b. 543, d. 615) by Jonas of Bobbio (b. c. 600, d. 659); the life of St Eustace (b. c. 560, d. c. 629); and the life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

172. Add MS 21952

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Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير كتاب أصول الهندسة والحساب Euclid أقليدس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geometry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1048
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+153+iii+1+i+1+iii

173. Add MS 21984

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Title:
Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De senectute, a Latin treatise on the subject of aging and death, by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The manuscript's colophon indicates that it was written by Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488), daughter of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

174. Add MS 21986

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Title:
Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Letters) of St Cyprian (b. c. 200, d. 258), bishop of Carthage. Contents: ff. 2r-97r: Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae, beginning: ‘Incipiunt epistolae sancti Cipriani cartaginensis episcopi et martyrii’. [f. 97v is blank]. Decoration: One large initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

175. Add MS 21995

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Title:
Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript from France contains a copy of the medieval work Passionarius Galeni (Passionary of Galen), attributed to Claudius Galenus (b. 129, d. c. 200/c. 216), Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher; but actually written by Gariopontus (d. 1050), teacher at the School of Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

176. Add MS 22278

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (books 11-18)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of Liessies in Northern France, which owned the manuscript in the 12th century, possibly until around the mid-19th century. Contents: ff. 1r-122r: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah, Books 11-18. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

177. Add MS 22285

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Title:
The Martyrology of Syon Abbey
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts used by the nuns and brothers of Syon Abbey, including liturgical guides, obituaries, historical notices, a calendar, and a martyrology. For an edition and translation of the manuscript, see Gejrot, ed. The Martiloge of Syon Abbey (2015); for a list of book donors to Syon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

178. Add MS 22371

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Title:
al-Thānī min Kitāb al-Filāḥah الثاني من كتاب الفلاحة Ibn Waḥshīyah, Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn أحمد بن الحسين، ابن وحشية
Scope & Content:
Volume Two of a copy of the Nabataean Agriculture (الفلاحة النبطية), a work on agronomy in the tradition of the Graeco-Latin Geoponica, which mixes diverse subjects related to farming such as plant, animal and weather lore; descriptions of agricultural techniques; and much material of a more leg...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+257+iv

179. Add MS 22377

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Title:
Visperad
Scope & Content:
An incomplete copy of the Visperad with a verse by verse translation into Pahlavi. Note by former owner (f. 46v): "Hunc Librum Visperad (a Vendidad Sade desumptum) a sacerdote pauperi Feriduno emi - Surati Jan. 3 1822. Teste Tahemurathe Mobedo". Text begins on folio 2r.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:
Late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+46+iv

180. Add MS 22398

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Title:
Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the collection of capitularies made in 827 by Ansegisus (d. c. 833), abbot of Fontenelles. The manuscript includes various other Carolingian legal texts and two short tracts on urine and prognostics. Contents: f. 2r: A fragment of a breviary to the Gospel of Matthew in a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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