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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 36617

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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

3. 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

4. Kings MS 16

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Kings MS 16
Title:
Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001), preceded by brief vitae and hypotheses
Scope & Content:
Homer, Iliad (TLG 0012.001). Each book except Book I preceded by one or two monostich summaries. Prose ὑπόθεσις at the start of Book II (f 13r) and scholia relating to Book I 331-341 (ff 7v-8r). Preceded by two brief lives of Homer (f 1r), inc. 1. ῞Ομηρος ὁ ποιητὴς υἱὸς ἦν. κατὰ μέν τινας Μαίω...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1431
Extent:

1 volume

5. Kings MS 21

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Kings MS 21
Title:
Cicero, Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Philippicae (Philippics), a series of speeches delivered by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC), condemning Mark Anthony (b. 83 BC, d. 30 BC) in the aftermath of the assassination of Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC). C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

6. Sloane MS 1712

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Sloane MS 1712
Title:
Ars Notoria texts
Scope & Content:
Contents: Two texts of the Ars Notoria, a set of prayers, holy and angelic names, diagrams and rituals used to gain knowledge and understanding by supernatural revelation, apparently as granted by God to Solomon: ff. 1r-22r: The Ars Notoria, with the rubric, 'Ars Notoria Salomonis, Machinei e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Sloane MS 1774

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Sloane MS 1774
Title:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin
Scope & Content:
Euripides, Hippolytus (TLG 0006.038) with marginal scholia in Greek and Latin, ff 1r-45r, followed by a note on παιανισμός, f 45v. The Greek text of the Hippolytus is a copy of the Aldine edition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume