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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11870
Title:: Symeon Metaphrastes, Saints' Lives for the month of September
Scope & Content:: Symeon Metaphrastes, Saints' Lives for the month of September
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 11th century
Extent:: 273 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11873
Title:: Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains three theological works by Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 530). It was copied at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny, where it may have remained in its library until the monastery was destroyed by French Revolutionary forces in 1790. Contents: ff. 1r-58v: Augustine of ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11878
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was produced in Luxeuil and contains book 23 and the first part of book 24 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. It is a fragment from a larger volume. Other fragments from the original volume are now Add MS 41567 (f. 118); Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. ms. 2243 (ff. 1-2); Paris, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11943
Title:: Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11983
Title:: Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1075-c 1125
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12042
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-32v: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 32v-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun (or 'Jehan Chopinel'), composed between 1269 and 1278, begins with the rubric, 'Encor des co[m]pla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 166 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v
Title:: Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd al-Ḍarīr ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود الضرير بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The title page to the text (f. 3r, line 5) calls the author al-Qaṣīr (القصير, 'the sho...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 3v-324v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r
Title:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods
Scope & Content:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods drawn from various medical books (من بعض كتب الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon to item four, f. 330, lines 9-13). Begins (f. 325r, lines 2-5): الحلو حار إلا أنه ليس يقوى الحرارة...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 325r-326r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v
Title:: Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt كتاب البثور في علامات الموت Hippocrates بقراط
Scope & Content:: The Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt (كتاب البثور في علامات الموت) is the Arabic version of a pseudo-Hippocratic text known as the Ἱπποκράτους νοήματά τε καὶ σημειώσεις περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου. A Latin version made from the Arabic exists, and is known variously as the Secreta Hippocratis due to ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 326r-327v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r
Title:: Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] نقل من القانون Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A collection of extracts from Avicenna's (ابن سينا, Ibn Sīnā; 980-1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon, f. 330, lines 9-13, transcribed below). Begins (f. 327v, lines 2-5): مرهم نافع للخنازير جيد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 327v-330r

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