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HUTH BEQUEST. Vols. I, II. Bible, in Latin; Vulgate version. Preceded by Jerome's Epistle to Paulinus ("Frater Ambrosius") and preface to the Pentateueh ("Desiderii mei"). The arrangement of books is regular, except that Ezra (1 Esdras) and Nehemiah are followed by the apocryphal 1 Esdras (here entitled 2 Esdras), and that Acts comes between the Pauline and Catholic ("canoniales") Epistles. In two volumes, vol. i ending with the Psalms. All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces, excep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
2 items

2. Add MS 38116

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Title:
Psalter ('The Huth Psalter')
Scope & Content:
This Psalter is notable for the prefatory image cycle of 11 full-page illuminations, some of which exhibit unusual subject matter. Entries in the calendar and litany of northern English saints, including St Hugh of Lincoln (in blue), suggest a Lincolnshire or Yorkshire origin, and it was likely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1280-1300
Extent:

A parchment codex.

3. Add MS 38117

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Title:
Robert de Boron, Joseph d'Arimathie, Le Livre de Merlin, Suite de Merlin ('the Huth Manuscript')
Scope & Content:
Contents: Three prose texts associated with Robert de Boron's Arthurian romances: ff. 1r-18r: Joseph d'Arimathie, a prose version of Robert de Boron's poem, imperfect at the beginning and begins at l. 65 of the text (O'Gorman 1995, p. 49); ff. 18v-74r: Le Livre de Merlin, the story of Merlin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 226 folios

4. Add MS 38118

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Title:
Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée
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Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Pol lapostre dit que tous iceux qui vuelent debonairement vivre en Ihesu Christ'. Ending: 'et dist ainsi '. ff. 2r-43v: Apocalypse : 'Ie Iehan vostre frère et parconniers en tribulations'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seigneur soit ave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 44 folios.

5. Add MS 38120

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Title:
Guillaume de Diguleville, Les Trois Pèlerinages
Scope & Content:
Les Trois Pèlerinages, three poems composed in 1330-1358 by Guillaume de Diguleville (or Degulleville, Deguileville), a monk of Chaalis in Valois. ff. 1r-110r: Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, prologue and four books containing the first recension of the text, an allegory of the pilgrimage of the so...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Add MS 38121

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Title:
'Picture-Book' of the life of St John the Evangelist; St Jerome's Preface; Apocalypse
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: 'Picture-book' of the life of St John the Evangelist. f. 3r: Preface of Jerome followed by a table of contents. Rubric: 'Incipit prefatio Sancti Iheronimi presbitri (sic), in Apocalipsi Sancti Johannis'. Beginning: 'Johannes, apostolus et evangelista, a Domino Christo elec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

1 volume

7. Add MS 38122

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Title:
Old Testament books from a Dutch History Bible, with commentary from Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Tobit, in a Dutch History Bible: a bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scolastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the fifteenth century the His...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
c 1440
Extent:

Parchment codex

8. Add MS 38123

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Scope & Content:
HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. X. HOURS, etc., in Dutch. Contents: (1) Calendar. In red, Pontian (Jan. 14), Servatius (May 13), Bonifaco (June 5), Lebuin (June 25 and Nov. 12), Lambert (Sept. 17), Remy (Oct. 1), Victor and Gereon (Oct. 10), Willibrord (Nov. 7) ; pointing clearly to the diocese of Utrecht. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 38124

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Title:
Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns
Scope & Content:
Contents: Book of Hours, use of the Humiliate Nuns, with prayers in Latin and Italian (ff. 214r-287v) and some rubrics in Italian, including prayers to or associated with Pope Gregory the Great (ff. 234v-235v), St Augustine (ff. 247r-249v, 282v), St Jerome (f. 272v-273r), St John the Baptist (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 288 folios

10. Add MS 38125

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Title:
Petrarch, Poems
Scope & Content:
HUTH BEQUEST. Vol. XII. Poems, in Italian, by Petrarch, viz: 1. Sonetti 1-42 and Canzoni 1-12, agreeeing with pp. 1-85 of Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca, ed. G. Mestica, 1896, except that Sonetti 2 and 3 are transposed, as in the Laurentian MS. pl. xli, n. 17. The first four lines of Son. 1 are o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex