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1. Add MS 10366

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Title:
Piero della Francesca, De prospectiva pingendi,in a Latin translation by Matteo di Ser Paolo d'Anghiari
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of the four extant Latin copies of De prospectiva pingendi: a treatise on perspective written originally in Italian by Piero della Francesca (b. 1412, d. 1492) and translated by his friend Maestro Matteo di Ser Paolo d’Anghiari. The treatise, divided into three books...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1470 - 1492
Extent:

1 volume

2. Add MS 10767

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Title:
Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 22754

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Title:
Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1451-c 1457
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 36617

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Add MS 36617
Title:
Al-Zahrawi, Chirurgia d'Albucasis, in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona; Arabic-Latin glossary of medical terms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated Latin translation of the Chirurgia d'Albucasis, a treatise on surgery by the Arabic physician and surgeon Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (b. 936, d. 1013), commonly known as 'al-Zahrawi'. The treatise represents the 30th and final...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Add MS 47683

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Title:
Detached leaf from a giant Bible
Scope & Content:
This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Davis849

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Davis849
Title:
Dogale, Instructions to Benetto Moro Giuro, on becoming a member of the Council
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-58v: Dogale, Instructions to Benetto Moro Giuro, on becoming a member of the Council; two untranscribed monograms with the scribe’s name at the end. ff. 61r-67r: A table of contents, entitled: ‘Rubrica’. Decoration: A frontispiece with full borders featuring animals and p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton Ch 134

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Egerton Ch 134
Title:
Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Casalittus; given at Pontem Ducis, 4 November 1109, written by the scribe Ribaldo, chaplain of Matilda of Tuscany, with the signatures of Baldus the Judge, Conon, and Michael the Archpresbyter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1109
Extent:
1 leaf

8. Egerton Ch 135

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Egerton Ch 135
Title:
Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa
Scope & Content:
Notarial copy of a grant by Matilda of Tuscany to the monastery of St Benedict near Padua, of land in Magarino, and to the monastery's cell at Ficarole, of rights and privileges in Massa. Originally given at Massa Castle, 13 April 1112. Bearing the notarial mark and certificate of Pietro de Ca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1198 and 1212
Extent:
1 leaf

9. Harley MS 117

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Harley MS 117
Title:
Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria; Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-43r: Relatione dell’origine delle Casa d’Austria: delli Acquisti fatti da loro, e le Cause per le quasi sono nate le presenti Revolutioni di Germania. ff. 44r-74v: Relatione dello Stato e Forze di tutti li Prencipi d'Italia.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 296

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Harley MS 296
Title:
A collection of original letters and transcripts, concerning Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Russia and Morocco
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: A discourse in French, concerning the enterprise that could be arranged for Don Antonio (b. 1531, d. 1595), a claimant for the Portuguese throne, for the recovery of his kingdom, and the effect and usefulness of this for the Netherlands and England. ff. 3r-4v: An origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume