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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17012
Title:: Books of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Book of Joan Vaux')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a Book of Hours that was made in Antwerp around the turn of the 16th century. It subsequently came to England, where it came into the posession of a lady of the Tudor court, possibly Joan Vaux (b. c. 1463, d. 1538), Lady Governess to the Princesses Margaret (b. 1489, d. 1541) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17333
Title:: Apocalypse (the 'Val-Dieu Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:: Content: Apocalypse (Revelation), in parallel Latin and French. Latin version: ff. 1r-47v: 'Apocalipsis Ihesu Christi quam dedit illi Deus palam facere servis suis'. Ending: ' Et fratrum tuorum prophetarum et corum qui servant verba libri huius. Deus adora'. Old French version: ff. 1r-47v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1320-1330
Extent:: A parchment codex, 47 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17392
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-229v: Psalter, with interlinear and marginal glosses embedding extracts from the Parva glossatura (The Small Gloss) of Anselm of Laon (b. 1050, d. 1117) and his school; followed by Canticles (ff. 152r-229v), beginning of Psalms: 'Beatus vir qui non abiit in consilio impiorum'; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17399
Title:: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée (ff. 2r-3v); Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose with glosses (ff. 3v-58v).
Scope & Content:: Contents: Apocalypse (Revelation) in prose, with prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée. f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf. ff. 2r-3v: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Paul lapostre dit'. Ending: 'Sique len peut chascune partie par soy seurement entendre et dire. Et dit ainsi'. ff. 3v-58v: Apoca...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Middle
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 58 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17739
Title:: The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-8v: The Eusebian Canon tables. ff. 9r-11r: Hieronymus, Epistula ad Damasum Papam (Epistle to Pope Damasus), beginning: 'Incipit Epistula Beati Iheronimi ad Damasum papam. Beatissimo pape Damaso Hieronimus novuum opus me facere cogis'. ff. 11r-13r: Hieronymus, Prologus Quattu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17798
Title:: Compositions for violins, and bass, in the hand of William Lawes
Scope & Content:: ff. 1-11b. Bass part of sixteen compositions ('fantazias' airs, pavans, and an 'In nomine '), for 5 viols, in the hand of William Lawes, who has signed nos. 1, 4, and 16. Described in Add MS 29410-29415 as '5 pts of Mr. Will. Lawes' Fantazies and aires to the Organn.' ff. 12-25b. Compositions ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (25 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17808
Title:: Scientific treatises on Music, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of scientific works. It opens with treatises on music by the Italian Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo (b. c. 995, d. 1050) that were highly influential in the development of polyphonic music and staff notation. The section on music is followed by works on ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18043
Title:: Psalter with commentary in Latin
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot in the diocese of Liège contains a Psalter with commentary. It also contains songs for the liturgy (canticles), a litany of saints, including St Remaclus, the founder of Stavelot (c. 650), and an exposition on the Athanasian Creed. It is par...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 10th century - 1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18298
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the second half of the twelfth century contains a Psalter and Canticles with an interlinear and marginal gloss that has been attributed to the circle of Anselm of Laon (d. 1117). Decoration: ff. 1r-2r: A Prologue to the Psalter, beginning (after a 'Nota'): 'Prophetia est a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18311
Title:: Rules of St Augustine for the government of nunneries
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: A letter from Heinrich von Lichtenau (b. 1444, d. 1517), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, imposing the Augustinian rule on the monastery of St Ulric, Dillingen, dated 23 June 1512; written in German, beginning, 'Wir heinrich von gottes gnaden Bischoff zu Augspurg...' ff. 2r-35r: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1512
Extent:: 1 volume

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