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1. Add MS 54229

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Title:
Glossed Psalter
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a Psalter, with the marginal Gloss on the Psalms (Magna glosatura) by Peter Lombard (b. c. 1096, d. 1160). It was probably made in England in the 3rd quarter of the 12th century, making it a particularly early copy of Peter Lombard’s Gloss on the Psalms, possibly made wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 54229-54246

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Title:
A. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1150-1570]
Extent:
18 items

3. Add MS 54229-54323*

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Add MS 54229-54323*
Title:
MILLAR BEQUEST
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum by Dr Eric George Millar (1887-1966), Keeper of Manuscripts 1944-1947. See also Add. 54179-54180 and Add. Chs. 75641-75722. See The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967. A Commemorative Volume. BMQ, xxxiii, 1-2 (1968). Acquire...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1150-1999]
Extent:
95 items

4. Add MS 54230

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. IV. Book of Judges, etc., glossed, written in England, perhaps at Reading Abbey; late 12th cent. Latin. Judges, Ruth, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs, with the Glossa Ordinaria, additional commentary and contemporary interlinear glosses. The text is imperfect, lacki...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 54231

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. V. Glossed Pentateuch, written in England; mid 13th cent. Latin. Minor loss of text after the final folio. Genesis - Leviticus (ff. 1-258v) bear numerous contemporary marginal notes and corrections in a single cursive hand, and later medieval notes in pencil. At the end of m...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 54232

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. VI. Bible, Vulgate version with the prefaces of St Jerome, written in England; mid 13th cent. Latin. Turner, op. cit., BMQ, xxxiii, pp. 21-22. Owned, circa 1300, by Brother Gervase of Bangor, presumably a member of the Dominican house there, and bequeathed by him to the Fran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1230-1399
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 54233

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. VII. St Raymundus de Peñaforte, 'Summa de Poenitentia et Matrimonio', written in England; late 13th cent. Latin. The text, in four books, is similar to that first printed, with gloss by Guillelmus Redonensis, under the title Summa Sti Raymundi de Peniafort . . . de Poenitent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1260-1460
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 54234

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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. VIII. The Sapiential Books, glossed, written and illuminated in northern France; circa 1225-1250. Latin. Turner, op. cit., BMQ, xxxiii, pp. 23-24, pl. IX. On the development of glossed books of the Bible, see C. F. R. de Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1225-1250
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 54235

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Title:
Vulgate
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains both the Old and New Testament books of the Vulgate. The manuscript probably originates from Northern France. The style of its decoration is associated by Robert Branner (Manuscript Painting, 1977) with the Johannes Grusch Atelier: a group of Parisian artists active from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

Parchment manuscript

10. Add MS 54236

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Add MS 54236
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Scope & Content:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Vol. X. Peter Lombard, 'Sentences', in four books, written in Spain; mid 13th cent. Latin. Beg. (Book 1) 'ueteris ac noue legis continentiam'. Lacks the Prologue 'cupientes'. For printed editions see: Migne, PL, cxcii, 522-962; Petri Lombardi Libri IV Sententiarum, Quaracchi edit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item