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131. Add MS 10037

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Title:
Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

132. Add MS 10084

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Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’. ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’. ff. 94r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

133. Add MS 10445

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Title:
A collection of compositions for strings, as well as melodies, and instrumental arrangements of songs and ballets
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 13b, 26. Twenty-five pieces, of which all except the first are taken from the 'Royall Consort' by 'William Lawes' (conf. Add MS 31433, etc.); 2nd half of the 17th century. They consist of Courantes, Sarabands, Airs, etc., written for 3 instruments. 1st and 2nd trebles and 'Breaking Base' ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

134. Add MS 10459

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Title:
Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works that were written separately in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century and incorrectly bound together at some point before the 15th century. The first text (ff. 1r-105r, 131r-165v) is De Institutione Laicali (On the Instruction of the Laity) by Jonas of Orlé...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

135. Add MS 10546

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Title:
Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:
This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, 'Carol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 830-c 840
Extent:

Parchment codex

136. 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

137. Add MS 11034

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Title:
Arator, Historia apostolica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus; Modoin of Autun, Ecloga; Bede, Versus de die iudicii
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Practice verse composition (?). f. 2r: Bede, Versus de die iudicii (Clavis Patrum Latinorum 1370), lines 128–55, ‘Nox ubi nulla rapit splendorem lucis amoenę’. f. 2v: Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151), ‘Ad boreae partes arctoi vertuntur et anguis’. Notation over t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

138. Add MS 11283

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Title:
Bestiary
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the earliest extant manuscript of a type of bestiaries known as 'Clark's Second-Family' that brings in new materials by following a system of classification into beasts, birds and reptiles. This taxonomy is supported by illustrations. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: A Bestiary, begin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

139. Add MS 11390

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Title:
Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme
Scope & Content:
The manuscript features one of the eleven extant copies of the Middle Dutch Der naturen bloeme (The Flower of Nature): a natural encyclopedia and bestiary in verse, divided into thirteen books. Der naturen bloeme was written around 1270 by the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant (b. c. 1200, d. c. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, Middle
Date Range:
c 1300 - c 1325
Extent:

Parchment codex

140. Add MS 11430

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Title:
Margareta Ebner, Offenbarungen, and related texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts relating to the German nun and mystic Margareta Ebner (b. 1291, d. 1351). From 1311, Ebner was renowned for having experienced a series of spiritual visions, which she later recorded in her Offenbarungen (Revelations), composed between 1344 and 1348. The volume contains a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
1744-1747
Extent:
1 volume

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