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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 22549-22566 Name Singer, Samuel Weller, bookseller and literary scholar, 1783-1858 Level [40] File

1. Add MS 22556

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Add MS 22556
Title:
?Geoffrey the Grammarian, Promptorium parvulorum
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains an imperfect copy of the Promptorium parvulorum, a fifteenth-century English-Latin dictionary. Several other manuscript copies survive: British Library, Harley MS 221, Harley MS 2274 (fragment) and Add MS 37789 (with the Medulla grammaticae); Cambridge, Emmanuel College,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

2. Add MS 22562

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Add MS 22562
Title:
Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum (Lives and Sayings of the Fathers), an encyclopaedic work comprised of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of early Christianity. According to the manuscript's colophon (f. 158v), this copy of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1449
Extent:
1 volume