Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, Orationes in Catilinam, De senectute, De amicitia and Paradoxa stoicorum
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Contents: ff. 1r-67v: Cicero, Disputationes tusculanae, written by Jean Blanchard, probably in 1463 (see Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts (1979)). ff. 67v-85v: Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam, written by Jean Blanchard in 1469. ff. 86r-105v: Cicero, De senectute. ff. 106r-12...
Copies of Visitation books of Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire and Lincolnshire, with additions
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Heraldical book written and tricked by different hands. Contents: ff. 1*-10: Copy of the arms and pedigrees entered at the Visitation of Oxfordshire 1566 by William Hervey, Clarenceux. Includes drawings of the seal of Oxford, the arms of the borough of Woodstock and the seal of Banbury (f. 1v)...
Theological texts from the 16th century and 17th century, Volume 2
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Folio manuscript containing theological texts written or collected by 'F.S.', a Catholic living in Ireland at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. It has been suggested that these are the collected works of John White, a teacher at the Roman Catholic College at Douay. Some of ...
Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, and other theological texts
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A collection of theological texts, written by multiple hands. Contents: ff. 1r-180r: Raymond of Penyafort, Summa de casibus poenitentiae, glossed. ff. 181r-186r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, De vanitate mundi, book iv, glossed. ff. 186r-194v: Geoffrey of Trani, Summa super titulus Decretalium. ff....
Pedigrees and arms of Devon, Wiltshire, Dorset, Worcestershire and Somerset, 1565-1579
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This heraldic manuscript mainly includes pedigrees and arms for the period 1565-1579, but includes additions, in the same hand as the rest of the manuscript, that are dated up to 1616 (f. 94v). Contents: ff. 3r-42v: The pedigrees of families in Devon from the Visitation of William Harvey, Cl...
Alanus de Insulis (attributed), Commentary on Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium
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Contents: ff. 1r-68v: Alanus de Insulis (attributed), Commentary on Pseudo-Cicero's Rhetorica ad Herennium. f. 1r: Notarial inscription. f. 68v: Added inscription regarding the purchase of the manuscript written by Sozomeno (b. 1387 at Pistoia, d. 1458), who studied at the University of Pad...
? Elyās Yūsof Neẓāmī Ganjavī Eskandar, Eskandar-nāmeh (Book of Alexander the Great)
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This manuscript was recorded missing since before 1825. The contents according to the printed Harley catalogue (1808) were as follows: 'Codex in chartris bombycinis elegantissime scriptus, atq; more Persarum illuminatus, circa A.D. 1580. sc. Eskanderia, sive Libri v Poematum celeberrimi Poetæ...