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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24153
Title:: German prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This highly decorated prayer-book was designed for a female member of the aristocratic family of the ‘Freiherren von Freyberg’ in Southwestern Germany. She is depicted, with her family’s coat of arms, in several of the manuscript’s full-page miniatures, often as a witness to the events of the Pa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Middle High
Date Range:: 1509
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24184
Title:: Psalms, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት
Scope & Content:: An Ethiopian manuscript containing: ff. 3v-5r. Hymn to the Saviour of the World. ff. 5r-112r. Psalms, መዝሙር ዘዳዊት. ff. 112r- 122v. The Canticles of the Prophets of the Old and New Testaments. ff. 122v-128v. Song of Songs of Solomon, መኃልየ መኃልይ ዘሰሎሞን. ff. 128v-136r. Weddase Maryam, ውዳሴ ማርያም. Th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413
Title:: Eight Zoroastrian works
Scope & Content:: A collection of works mostly by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana (d. 1847) of Bombay who was the chief priest of the Shahanshahi Parsis, composed for Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) of the Madras Army who from 1827 to 1831 was Governor of Bombay. Mostly copied by the author whose full name is given he...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Pahlavi and Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+94+vi (ff. 19-21; 26-30; 46-48, 58-60; 75-76 blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24914
Title:: Bede, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Expositio; De Dei Judicie; St Jerome, In Ecclesiasten; Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum (12 homilies); Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beate Marie Egyptiace; Marbodius of Rennes, Vita Sancti Laurentii; De Adnuntiatione Beatae Mariae; Vita Metrica Sancti Friderici Episcopi Leodiensis; Frederick I of Schwarzenburg, Epistola ad Clerum Leodiensem; Rudolf of Saint-Trond, Carmen de Theoderico Trudonensi Abate; Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio super Cantica Canti...
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century theological miscellany was owned and may also have been produced by the Benedictine abbey of Sint-Truiden (St Trond), also known as St Trudo’s Abbey. The larger part of the manuscript is composed of biblical commentaries by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), St Jerome (b. 347...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25014
Title:: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-117r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), preceded by the preface (ff. 3r-v), beginning: 'Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice hystorie gentis anglorum. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolfuulfo Beda famulus Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25312
Title:: Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apocalypse; Odo of Cambrai, De canonibus evangelorium; Table of consanguinity.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-2v: Haimo of Halberstad, Preface to the Commentary on the Apocalypse, rubric: 'Incipit Epythoma succincte expositionis super librum apocalypsin', prologue: 'Legimus in ecclesiastica historia beatum Iohannem a Domiciano'. ff. 2v-133r: Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 135 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25434
Title:: Richard of Ireland (pseudonym), Les Prophecies de Merlin.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains only Les Prophecies de Merlin (imperfect): a collection of historical and ecclesiastical prophecies (written c. 1274-1279) purportedly dictated by Merlin to 'Maistre Antoine', bishop of Wales, and other scribes. The work, however, also features narrative materials about M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26667
Title:: Chronique Universelle
Scope & Content:: Contents: Chronique Universelle, a chronicle of universal history from the Creation to 1340, divided into 6 ages. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures in colours with gold. Initials and line fillers in gold on red grounds. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 1r: The Expulsion from Paradi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1480-1490
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26760
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-187r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23 to 35. Decoration: One large decorated initial 'P'(refacionem) with interlace, floriated motifs and zoomorphic elements, in a multi-coloured frame, with green, red, yellow and blue (f. 1r). Nine large decor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26761
Title:: Origen, Commentary on Matthew (Chapter 36-end)
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains part of the commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by the Church Father Origen (b. c. 185, d. c. 254). The manuscript was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the oldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. It was preserved in the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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