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161. Add MS 26762

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Title:
Theological tracts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological tracts. It was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the eldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. The manuscript was preserved in the abbey's library from the 12th century until the monastery was dissolved by F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

162. Add MS 27278

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Title:
MEMORANDUM-BOOK of Sir Francis Bacon, afterwards Urd Verulam. The general title is, "Comentarius solutus sive Pandecta, sive Ancilla Memoriæ. Habet libros duos: 1. Comentarium transportatorum ex comentario vetere. 2. Commentarium novum et currentem." The first division alone is contained in the present volume, of which the special title is, "Lib. i. sive Comentarius transportatorum consistit ex diario et schedulis." It comprises memoranda for his conduct in public and private business, liter...
Scope & Content:
Diaries and Memoranda: Sir Francis Bacon: 1608, 1609. Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Note-book: 1608-1609.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

163. Add MS 27920

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Title:
A noted Breviary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

164. Add MS 28188

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Title:
Pontifical with litanies and benedictional (imperfect)
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This manuscript contains a partial Pontifical and a partial Benedictional. The manuscript's distinctive 'Exeter-style' script and the presence of saints especially venerated at Exeter in the litanies, like Pancras and Sativola/Sidwell, suggest it was made at Exeter Cathedral between about 1050 a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

165. Add MS 28260

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Title:
Moral and didactic texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: inserted leaves containing fragments of grammatical treatises in Latin in a 13th-century hand; ff. 3r-33v: Philip of Novara (Philippe de Novare) (b. 1195, d. c. 1270), Les Quatre Ages de l'Homme, a treatise on the four ages of Man, composed between 1265 and 1270 in the Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 101 folios

166. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

167. Add MS 29276

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Title:
Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century lectionary was owned by and almost certainly produced at the Benedictine abbey of Tholey in Saarland (Germany). The manuscript contains an anathema (f. 162v) that curses thieves and plunderers of the monastery with all the maledictions of the Law of Moses and the punishment of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century -3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

168. Add MS 29485

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Title:
Almands, galliards, pavans, sarabands, etc., arranged for the virginals, on six-lined staves, with headings in Dutch.
Scope & Content:
Collection of pieces arranged for the Virginals, written on two staves of 6 lines each. Apparently made for Susanne van Soldt, 1599 (see f. 1); but the writing on f. 2 (in a different, but nearly contemporary hand — see also ff. 24-27) seems to connect the MS. with England. The names of the comp...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume (27 folios)

169. Add MS 29972

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Title:
St Augustine, Homilies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary collection of sermons by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). It was produced in the 1st quarter of the 8th century, and written in a type of Merovingian minuscule cursive that is associated with the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil, one of the oldest monast...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

170. Add MS 29986

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Title:
Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum dominarum)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champagne. The manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1407-1410
Extent:
1 volume

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