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61. Add MS 14784

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Title:
St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia; St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; St Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents. f. 2r: Excerpt from St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Retractationes (Retractions) (Book 2, chapter 53), beginning: 'Scripsi duos libros ad illustrem virum Valerium comitem'. ff. 2r-3r: St Augustine, Epistola ad Volusianum (Epistle to Volusianus), beginning...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

62. Add MS 15102

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Title:
Hildegard von Bingen, Collectio epistolarum, Ordo virtutum, and other texts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an extensive collection of letters and other Latin works by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. One of these works is her Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues), one of the earliest examples of an allegoric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1487
Extent:
1 volume

63. Add MS 15103

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Title:
Collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by Martha Felderin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-228r: a collection of homilies and saints' Lives, written by the scribe and nun Martha Felderin, beginning with an incomplete list of contents (f.1r) and ending with a colophon (f. 228r). ff. 1v, 106v-107v, 197v and 228v are blank. Decoration: Large initials in blue with...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German
Date Range:
1488
Extent:
1 volume

64. Add MS 15117

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A collection, mostly comprising compositions for the lute, as well as songs, anthems, madrigals, duets, and an extract from an opera, all with lute accompaniment. This volume also contains a quartet, and an index to 'The Psalmes of David in Meter'.
Scope & Content:
ff. 2, 2b, 8b. Compositions for Lute; after 1614. 1. 'Almaine.' 'Candishe' (? = M. Cavendish). f. 2. 2, 3. Two pieces, without names. Anonymous. f. 2. 4. 'Curranto.' f. 2b. 5. 'Ut re my fa sol la.' 'Dyomedes' [of Venice, lutenist to Sigismund II, of Poland]. f. 8b. f. 3. 'Awake, ye wofull weig...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1599
Extent:
1 volume

65. Add MS 15166

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Title:
The treble part of a collection of psalms, as well as the treble part of three madrigals
Scope & Content:
passim. The treble part of a collection of Psalms, etc., apparently written for 4 voices. The following forty-eight, which are set as Hymns, are by [John] Sheperd; and the words are taken, with slight variations, from the Sternhold and Hopkins version. 1. ‘The man is blest that hath not gone.’ f...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1567
Extent:
1 volume

66. Add MS 15219

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Title:
Bede, De Locis Sanctis, Interpretatio Nominum Graecorum, Interpretatio Nominum Hebraeorum; Pseudo-Antoninus of Piacenza, De Locis Terrae Sanctae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced in the second half of the 12th century, probably at the Benedictine monastery of St Martin at Tournai. It most likely remained there until the abbey’s dissolution in 1796 by French Revolutionary forces. The manuscript contains two works on sacred places by Pseudo-Ant...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

67. Add MS 15222

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A collection of Ordines Romani including Angilram of Metz, De cantorum et lectorum ordinatione and a series of oaths held before the archbishop of Besançon
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of a pontifical for a bishop built around a collection of Ordines Romani ('Orders of the Romans') originating in the 8th-century, including the Decretum Gelasianum de libris recipiendis et non recipiendis (The Decretal of Gelasius: On Books to Be Admitted and not to Be A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century-12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

68. Add MS 15304

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Title:
The Four Gospels
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3v: The Eusebian Canon tables, (incomplete, containing only the titles). ff. 4r-5r: St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), Epistula ad Damasum (The Letter of Jerome to Damasus), beginning: 'Novum opus facere me cogis'. ff. 5r-7r: St Jerome, Prologus quattuor evangelium ex commentario Hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

69. Add MS 15347

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Title:
'Phra Malai' พระมาลัย = Maleyyatheravannana
Scope & Content:
Legend of a famous Buddhist monk known as Phra Malai who visited heaven and hell. The illustrations represent celestial beings (devata), and the tortures of the damned in hell. Fol. 2: "namo tassa… namo tassa… tilokasettham tam buddham dhammanavaniyanikam samgham nikkhanañceva abhivadi bhasiss...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Pali and Thai
Date Range:
1830-1838
Extent:
85 folios

70. Add MS 15350

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Title:
Codex Wintoniensis (The St Swithun Cartulary)
Scope & Content:
Known as 'Codex Wintoniensis', this 12th-century manuscript contains the St Swithun or Winchester Cartulary, a collection of charters pertaining to the cathedral priory of Winchester (Old Minster) written in Latin and Old English. The manuscript may have been in the hands of the Benedictine monk...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1130-1150
Extent:

A parchment codex

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