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Name Alexander, called The Great, 356-323 BC Level [40] File

1. Add MS 22819

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Add MS 22819
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Scope & Content:
QUINTI Curtii de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonum libri III.-X.; with marginal gloss. The books are numbered i.-viii. Vellum. In an Italian hand; with illuminated initials; XVth cent. Quarto. Quintus Curtius Rufus: De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni: 15th cent. Art. Illuminations and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 48178

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Add MS 48178
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MARTINUS POLONUS, CHRONICA PONTIFICUM ET IMPERATORUM; VITA ALEXANDRI MAGNI, etc.; early 14th cent. Latin. 1. f. 1. 'De Terra Sancta'; a short historical itinerary from Acre to Golgotha, in the hand of John of London, monk of St Augustine's, Canterbury (fl. c. 1300-1360), on whom see A. B. Emde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Arundel MS 123

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Arundel MS 123
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Membranaceus, in folio minori, ff. 96, sec. xiv. 1. Geographia universalis, ordine alphabetico compilata ex Isidori Hispalensis Originibus,aliisque, qviorum auctoritas seepius allegatur. fol. 5. Incip. "Orbis autem, ut dicit Ysidorus libro xvmo., tripharie est divisus". Desin. "monstruosa inve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Arundel MS 242

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Arundel MS 242
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Chartaceus, in 4to., ff. 186, sec. xv. 1. Quædam de scriptoribus rerum gestarum Caroli Magni, quæ in hoc codice continentur. fol. 1. b. 2. Eginhardi vita Caroli Magni, omisso prologo. fol. 2. Ad calcem, "Explicit liber primus gestorum Karoli, incipit secundus." 3. Ejusdem annales Regum Franc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r

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Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 1v-21r
Title:
Kitāb al-Isṭimākhīs كتاب الإسطماخيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
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Text on the making and use of talismans. The text is said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC) while he was planning his expedition to the east, during the fourth year of his reign (see f. ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 1v-21r

6. Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v

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Delhi Arabic 1946, ff 32v-52v
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Extract from Kitāb al-Iṣṭimāṭīs من كتاب الإصطماطيس Aristotle أرسطاطاليس
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Text on the making and use of talismans said to have been taken from Hermes (هرمس) and recorded by Aristotle (أرسطاطاليس, d. 322 BC) for his pupil Alexander the Great (الإسكندر, d. 323 BC). 　 Begins (f. 32v, lines 2-8): من كتاب الإصطماطيس الذي وضعه هرمس في علل الروحانيات والمقسوم من الأقاليم...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:

Ff. 32v-52v

7. EAP657/2/5/6

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EAP657/2/5/6
Title:
Kvinta Kurtsiia Istoriia ob Aleksandre Velikom tsare Makedonskom: S dopolneniem Freinsgeima i s primechaniiami perevedena s latinskogo iazyka vtorichno, Stepanom Krasheninnikovym Akademii nauk professorom. T. 1
Scope & Content:
[Saint-]Peterburg: Pri Imperatorskoi Akademii nauk, 1800. Tom 1.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Russian
Date Range:
1800
Extent:
520 tiff images, 21.0 Gb

8. Harley MS 2488

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Harley MS 2488
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Valerius Maximus, Memorabilia, and Texts relating to Medicine and Romances; early 15th cent. Latin. Copies. The cataloguing of this manuscript was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Only the text relating to medicine is itemised in the description; the non-medical texts are mentioned only summari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Harley MS 3273

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Harley MS 3273
Title:
İskendername - اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 text, 320 ff

10. Papyrus 756

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Papyrus 756
Title:
Notification of Death (P.Oxy. I 79 ro., P.Lond. III 756 ro. descr., TM 20739), and Ethopoea of Alexander (P.Oxy. I 79 vo., P.Lond.Lit. 162, P.Lond. III 756 vo. descr., TM 64094, LDAB 5312, MP3 2588)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Oxy. I 79 ro., P.Lond. III 756 ro. descr., TM 20739): Notification of death, numbered at the top, addressed to Iulius, village scribe (komogrammateus) of Sephtha, from Cephalas, who declares the death of his son Panechotes and asks that he may be added to the register of the dead. The o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
late 2nd century-early 3rd century
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with abrasion and few holes; it bears writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front, and across them on the back. The text on the front is incomplete, lacking the end; upper and left margins are extant; no margin was left to the right. The text on the back seems complete and all margins are extant. A line was washed out at the end. Modern annotations are visible on the front, with the number in red referring to the publication in P.Oxy. I. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

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