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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21986
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21995
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22278
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22285
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22377
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22398
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22493
Title:: Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus (ff. 1-4).
Scope & Content:: Contents: Apocalypse with commentary by Berengaudus (Fragment): f. 1r-4v: 'Et cum appervisset agnus sigillum secundum'. Ending: 'terre ac populi qui eis subicientur'. The manuscript includes the same gloss as in Additional 22493: f. 1v: 'Apertio primi signaculi ad ea que ante diluvium facta ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22719
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1015, d. 1087), physician and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino. It also includes De Physicis Ligaturis (On Physical Ligatures), the Latin translation of a work by the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23211
Title:: Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the earliest fragments of the Old English martyrology and the earliest known West Saxon and East Saxon royal geneaologies. These fragments survive in two folios, apparently written by the same scribe, which were cut down and formerly used as pastedowns in an early...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

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