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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Burney MS Name Forrest, William, poet, fl. 1530-1576 Level [40] File

1. Burney MS 246

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 246
Title:
Sedulius, Carmen paschale; Turcius Rufus Asterius, note and poem
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: Sedulius (fl. 450), Epistula ad Macedonium (Letter to Macedonius), beginning: 'Priusquam me venerabilis pater'. f. 3r: Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius (fl. 494), note on the revision of Sedulius's work, followed by short poem, the latter beginning: ‘Sume sacer meritis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

2. Burney MS 285

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 285
Title:
Theological miscellany
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r-4r: Anselm of Canterbury: Epistola de sacrificio azimi et fermentati (PL 158, 541-548; F. S. Schmitt, S. Anselmi Opera omnia, vol. 2, (Rome 1940), p. 223-232 f. 4r: Extracts on Human Conception and Soul ("De conceptione humana loquitur Beda dicens"). A collection of three extracts: Burna...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex

3. Burney MS 295

Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 295
Title:
Theological Miscellany
Scope & Content:
ff. 1v-2v: Pseudo-Augustine: Sermon on the Incarnation of the Lord (PL 39, 2196-2198; PLS 2, 858-859; CPPM I. 1030) with an incipit slightly different from the editions ('Legimus de sancto Moyse, populo dei praecepta dante'). f. 2v: Short poem on the vanity of the world ('Rebus mundi qui adhere...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:
Parchment codex.