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661. Stowe Ms 1-1085

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ms 1-1085
Title:
Stowe Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Old, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
c 1000-c 1800
Extent:
1085 items

662. Stowe MS 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 2
Title:
Psalter with gloss in Old English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a decorated Gallican Psalter and Canticles (ff. 168v-180v), made in England in the mid-11th century. The Psalter was glossed in Old English in the second half of the 11th century. This Psalter might be related to fragments/binding strips of a glossed Psalter in Cambrid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
Extent:

1 volume

663. Stowe MS 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 3
Title:
The Four Gospels; a Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Four Gospels with prologues and tables of contents, followed by a lectionary in which readings from the Gospels are divided over the liturgical year. The manuscript has, on stylistic grounds, been identified as a product of the Benedictine abbey of St Remaclus in Sta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

664. Stowe MS 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 4
Title:
Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica (Scholastic History) by the theologian Petrus Comestor (d. 1187). The Historia offers a retelling of the Old and New Testaments and was a popular work in the later Middle Ages. It also includes excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circums...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

665. Stowe MS 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 5
Title:
Scope & Content:
PETRI COMESTORIS Historia Scholastica. Begins with the epistle dedicatory to William [de Champagne], Archbishop of Sens [1168-1176, afterwards of Reims, and Cardinal], and is complete to the end of the Gospel history, with a continuation covering the Acts of the Apostles and ending with the mart...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13th century-Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

666. Stowe MS 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 6
Title:
Scope & Content:
STJÓRN (i.e. "a steering"): a Biblical Paraphrase of the historical books of the Old Testament, in Icelandic. Begun by order of Hakon V., King of Norway, circ. 1300, but completed, from Exodus, ch. xx. onwards, by adopting the earlier Gyðinga Sögur ("Sagas of the Jews") of Brand Jónsson, Bishop ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Icelandic
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

667. Stowe MS 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 7
Title:
Scope & Content:
BIBLIA PAUPERUM, consisting of rudely executed and Coloured drawings representing the typical events of Old Testament History and their corresponding fulfilments in the Life of our Lord, with appropriate texts from the Vulgate. There are in addition numerous drawings of heads of prophets, kings,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

668. Stowe MS 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 8
Title:
Scope & Content:
ZACHARIAS CHRYSOPOLITANUS in unum ex quattuor sive de concordia Evangelistarum: the Concordance to the Gospels, with commentary, of Zacharias of Chrysopolis [variously supposed to be Goldborough in Yorkshire and Besançon in France]. He has recently been identified with Zacharias, " ductor schola...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

669. Stowe MS 9

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 9
Title:
Scope & Content:
CONCORDANCE, or Harmony of the Gospels, in Latin, the four narratives being combined into one by selection of passages from each. Begins with John i. 1, "In principio erat Verbum," and ends with the last words of the same Gospel, " qui scribendi sunt libros,"followed by the colophon,"Explicit sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

670. Stowe MS 10

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 10
Title:
Scope & Content:
"MISSALE secundum usum Romane ecclesie." Written apparently for a Franciscan house in Northern France. Preceded by a calendar (ff. 1-6). Vellum; ff. 263. xvth cent. (after 1450, St. Bernardinus, the Franciscan, canonized in that year, being included in the calendar). In double columns; with a fu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1450
Extent:
1 item

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