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201. Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r

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Title:
Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
Scope & Content:
A general treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills in the tradition of the so-called 'Treatise B' of the ʿAbbasid furūsīyah master Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (ابن أخي حزام, d. ca 864, see citation and note about the incipit of the latter, with identical wording to the present text, in Al-Sarraf, S...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 2v-96r

202. Add MS 22332

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Title:
Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Discorsi, a herbal assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-2v: Index of plant names for the Discorsi; ff. 3r-184v: Pietro Andrea Mattioli, the Discorsi, assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo. This manuscript contains the Discorsi, an Italian herbal that provides a commentary on De Materia Medica by the Greek physician Pedanius ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-1584
Extent:

Paper codex

203. Add MS 22333

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Title:
Gherardo Cibo, Paintings of flora of the Roman States
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: A letter to Gherardo Cibo from Pietro Andrea Mattioli (b. 1501, d. 1577) of Sienna, physician physician to Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, praising his work; f. 3r-v: Index of plants; ff. 3r-63: Gherardo Cibo (b. 1512, d. 1600), P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1564-1584
Extent:

Paper codex

204. Add MS 22562

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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

205. Add MS 22597

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Title:
Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:
(String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 volume (53 folios)

206. Add MS 22754

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Title:
Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1451-c 1457
Extent:
1 volume

207. Add MS 22820

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Title:
Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Jeremiah
Scope & Content:
A colophon at the end of this manuscript states that this book was written by Herimann, a monk from the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, for its then abbot St Majolus (b. c. 906, d. 994). This leaves no doubt that the manuscript was written during his abbacy from 956 to 992, and makes it one of the e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

208. Add MS 23390, ff 3r-50r

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Title:
Fī raf‘ al-ashyā’ al-thaqīlah في رفع الأشياء الثقيلة Hero of Alexandria إيرن الإسكندراني
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the Mechanica (Μηχανικά) by the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria (Ἥρων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; إيرن; fl. 1st century). Only fragments of the original Greek text survive. The beginnings of Chapters Two and Three (ff. 18r, line 2 and 39v, line 2) give the title of the Arabic ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

ff. 3r-50r

209. Add MS 23390, ff 50v-87v

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Title:
‘Uyūn al-ḥaqā’iq wa-īḍāḥ al-ṭarā’iq عيون الحقائق وإيضاح الطرائق ‘Irāqī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad عراقي، محمد ابن أحمد
Scope & Content:
An exhaustive treatise on the magical arts based upon writings attributed to Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Galen as well as more recent authorities. The author's name is given in full as Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, known as al-‘Irāqī in Khusrawshāh (أبو القاسم أحمد ابن محمد المعروف بال...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:

ff. 50v-87v

210. Add MS 23391, ff 2r-21r

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Title:
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī al-binkāmāt كتاب أرشميدس في البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with thirteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title is given wrongly as كتاب أرشميدش في عمل السكامات (Kitāb Arshimīdash fī ‘amal al-sakāmāt; f. 2v, line 1); the final word should re...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Ff. 2r-21r

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