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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10084
Title:: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’. ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’. ff. 94r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10459
Title:: Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works that were written separately in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century and incorrectly bound together at some point before the 15th century. The first text (ff. 1r-105r, 131r-165v) is De Institutione Laicali (On the Instruction of the Laity) by Jonas of Orlé...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10546
Title:: Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:: This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, 'Carol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 830-c 840
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10767
Title:: Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11034
Title:: Arator, Historia apostolica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus; Modoin of Autun, Ecloga; Bede, Versus de die iudicii
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Practice verse composition (?). f. 2r: Bede, Versus de die iudicii (Clavis Patrum Latinorum 1370), lines 128–55, ‘Nox ubi nulla rapit splendorem lucis amoenę’. f. 2v: Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151), ‘Ad boreae partes arctoi vertuntur et anguis’. Notation over t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11283
Title:: Bestiary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the earliest extant manuscript of a type of bestiaries known as 'Clark's Second-Family' that brings in new materials by following a system of classification into beasts, birds and reptiles. This taxonomy is supported by illustrations. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: A Bestiary, begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11390
Title:: Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme
Scope & Content:: The manuscript features one of the eleven extant copies of the Middle Dutch Der naturen bloeme (The Flower of Nature): a natural encyclopedia and bestiary in verse, divided into thirteen books. Der naturen bloeme was written around 1270 by the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant (b. c. 1200, d. c. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300 - c 1325
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11430
Title:: Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, and related texts
Scope & Content:: A collection of texts relating to the German nun and mystic Margareta Ebner (b. 1291, d. 1351). From 1311, Ebner was renowned for having experienced a series of spiritual visions, which she later recorded in her Offenbarungen (Revelations), composed between 1344 and 1348. The volume contains a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1744-1747
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11440
Title:: Two canon law compilations
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two canon law texts and a tree diagram reflecting consanguinity rules. The first text is a collection concerning penance, which opens with De Penitentia Sive Medicus (About Penance or the Physician) by Burchard of Worms (d. 1025), followed by excerpts attributed to many ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11559
Title:: A collection of twenty-six Druze texts
Scope & Content:: Part two of a collection of Druze texts in four volumes. This volume contains twenty-six texts. The other volumes are Add MS 11558, Add MS 11560, Add MS 11562.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: Codex; ff.105

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