A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. It was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716) for historic...
A collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin
Scope & Content:
The volume is a collection of fragments from manuscripts of different date and origin. The volume was part of a collection of fragments from manuscripts and printed books, including maps and drawings, assembled in 64 volumes by the bookseller and antiquary John Bagford (b. 1650/51, d. 1716). Dur...
Humanist letters; Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia (imperfect); Latin dictionary
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Contents: ff. 2r-9v: A collection of letters by Heliseus Barbii, Petrus Berardesci, Petrus Collensis, Camillus Lutii, and others. ff. 10r-13v: Letters by Johannes Gabrielles and others [Latin and Italian]. ff. 14r-23v: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia, imperfect. f. 24v: Leonardo...
Contents: ff. 1r-101r: Year Book of King Henry IV; the Michaelmas and Hilary terms of the year 1409/10. The manuscript contains later additions: f. [iii]recto: A prayer ‘Jhesus help me Amen’; written in the 15th century. f. 101v: A price: 'xvs vd [? et] vjs xjd'; added in the 15th or 16th ...
Collection of grammatical, rhetorical and moral texts
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Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Collection of grammatical rules for young students of the Latin language, beginning: 'How mani maner of ways schall thou begynne to make laten and counstru v maner off wayes // The first att the Vocayve case'; written by 'F. Framton' (f. 35r). ff. 12r-38v: Treatise on La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 16th century-3rd quarter of the 16th century
A composite manuscript including: A list of contents (f. 1v); John Chrysostom, Homilies 1-30 (ff. 2r-62r); Augustine of Hippo, Sermones (Sermo 173) (ff. 63r- 64v); Isidore of Seville, De Differentis (ff. 65v-89r); Bede, De Natura Rerum (ff. 90r-99r); Anselm, De libero arbitrio (ff. 100r-10...
Contents: ff. 1r-73r: Petrarch, Selection of his Sonnets and Triumphs; written in Italian. The manuscript contains various additions: Marginal annotations throughout in Italian and Latin by a different 16th-century hand, including variant readings from two autograph manuscripts by Petrarch, ...