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191. Add MS 37472

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Title:
Seven cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Scope & Content:
A collection of seven cuttings from illuminated manuscripts: f. 1r-v: A leaf from a prefatory cycle of miniatures, 24 square panels with scenes from the life of Christ. f. 2: a cutting from a Gradual,with a historiated initial, 'I'; f. 3: a cutting from a Gradual,with a historiated initial, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
12th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment cuttings in cardboard mounts

192. Add MS 37517

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Title:
Psalter ('The Bosworth Psalter') with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the 'Bosworth Psalter', contains the Roman version of Psalms, monastic canticles and hymns with some Latin glosses. The main body of the text was probably copied in the 3rd quarter of the 10th century. This Psalter was designed for use of a community following the Rule ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-early 11th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

193. Add MS 37518

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manuscript was produced at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, as i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

194. Add MS 38603

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Title:
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Seven Penitential Psalms and other prayers ('The Prayer book of King Alexander of Poland')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a compilation of prayers which were selected, as the colophon suggests, at the request of prince Alexander of Poland, including: ff. 1r-15r: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Seven Penitential Psalms, dedicated to Sacramor de Pommier, rubric: 'Francisci petrarce poete laureati p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1491
Extent:

Parchment codex

195. Add MS 38604

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Title:
Breviary for Birgittine Use
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illuminated Breviary. A rubric at the beginning of the volume (f. 16r) states that it was made in 1470 for a Sister Margarita, daughter of Alessio Saluzzo, upon her entry into the Birgittine monastery of Scala Coeli in Genoa. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1470
Extent:
1 volume

196. Add MS 38645

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Title:
Benedictional and Pontifical
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains two collections of blessings: a Benedictional, containing texts for blessing sacerdotal objects, clothes, and monastic buildings; and a Pontifical, containing texts for rites exclusively performed by bishops. The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

197. Add MS 38895 A

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Title:
Sale of a Vineyard (Jur.Pap. 36, TM 70352, TM 97889)
Scope & Content:
Recto: The document records the purchase of a vineyard by a man named Gathakes from the brothers Barakes and Sobenes. It included two versions of the text, following the format of Doppelurkunde (“double document”). There are important differences between both versions. Dated to November 88 BCE ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Parthian
Date Range:
88 BC or 24 BC
Extent:

Parchment sheet, complete, but damaged by holes of varying size and little surface damage throughout; written on both sides, in Greek on the recto and in Parthian on the verso. The recto bears 64 lines; all margins are extant, with upper and side margins being minimal. On the back there are modern annotations, viz. the inventory number and the British Museum stamp in red. The sheet is housed in a glass case.

198. Add MS 40000

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Title:
The Gospels ('The Thorney Gospels'); added Liber Vitae and list of relics of Thorney Abbey
Scope & Content:
This early 10th-century book of Gospels was produced in France, but, as is indicated by Old English glosses, was at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary the Virgin and St Botoph at Thorney (Cambridgeshire) by the late 10th or early 11th century. At Thorney Abbey, a Liber Vitae (Book of Life) was add...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 10th century-15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

199. Add MS 40007

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Title:
Ralph de Diceto, Opuscula; Letter to William de Longchamp; Abbreviationes Chronicorum (extracts); Letter to John of Poitiers; Ymagines Historiarum (excerpts); Geoffrey of Monmouth, Prophetia Merlini; Anonymous prophecies
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of letters and historical works written by Ralph of Diceto (d. 1199/1200), chronicler, ecclesiastic and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, London. This volume was probably produced in the scriptorium of St Paul's. The prefatory letter to William de Longchamp (d. 1197), chancel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1195
Extent:

A parchment codex

200. Add MS 40074

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Title:
Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis, Epistulae, Dialogi
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r–24r: Sulpicius Severus, Vita sancti Martini Turonensis (CPL 475). The copy includes additonal texts characteristic of the ‘Martinellus’ family: cf. Fontaine, Sulpice Sévère (1967), i. 219–21. Some contemporary interlinear glosses. ff. 24r–34r: Sulpicius Severus, Epistulae (CPL...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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