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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 54229-54323* Name Hornby, Charles Harry St John, printer and collector Level [40] File

1. Add MS 54229

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Glossed Psalter
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This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
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A parchment codex

2. Add MS 54231

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MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. V. Glossed Pentateuch, written in England; mid 13th cent. Latin. Minor loss of text after the final folio. Genesis - Leviticus (ff. 1-258v) bear numerous contemporary marginal notes and corrections in a single cursive hand, and later medieval notes in pencil. At the end of m...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
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1 item

3. Add MS 54244

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MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XVIII. Cicero, 'De Oratore', a single leaf from an Italian manuscript of this work (chs. 26-33, Book I), copied and corrected by a leading Florentine scribe, Gherardo del Ciriagio; 1453. Latin. See Turner, op. cit., BMQ, xxxiii, pp. 34-35. For other examples of Ciriagio's ha...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1453
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 54245

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MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XIX. St Antoninus of Florence, 'Interroghatorio', written in Italy, possibly Florence; third quarter of the 15th cent. Italian. One of the Confessionale composed by St Antoninus Forciglioni, Dominican Archbishop of Florence (d.1459; canonized 1523) to whom four confession ma...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 54318

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MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XCII. Autograph Book; 1909-1961, n.d. Ink, pencil and watercolour. Contains twenty-six entries, many illustrated. Last dated entry 1961 (f. 18). The book was given to Millar on his twenty-first birthday, 24 Oct. 1908, by Mrs Marie Hensley, sister of Sir Sidney Low (f. 1). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1961
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 54320

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MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. XCIV. Letters from Montagu Rhodes James to Millar, with a little related correspondence; 1912-1936. Paper; ff. 277+86*. British Library arrangement. includes: ff. 1-268 Montague Rhodes James, OM; Provost of Eton College: Letters to E. G. Millar: 1912-1936.ff. 269-271 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1936
Extent:
1 item