Search

Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

151. Add MS 11853

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11853
Title:
The Pauline Epistles with Gloss
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Pauline Epistles with the Gloss by Gilbert of Poitiers (b. c. 1076, d. 1154), biblical commentator and theologian, bishop of Poitiers (f. 193r: ‘Expliciunt Glosæ Magistri Gisleberti pictavensis episcopi super Epistolas pauli’). The text has been written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

152. Add MS 11870

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11870
Title:
Symeon Metaphrastes, Saints' Lives for the month of September
Scope & Content:
Symeon Metaphrastes, Saints' Lives for the month of September
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
273 folios

153. Add MS 11873

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11873
Title:
Augustine of Hippo, In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem, De Doctrina Christiana, Liber de vera religione
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three theological works by Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 530). It was copied at the Benedictine monastery of Cluny, where it may have remained in its library until the monastery was destroyed by French Revolutionary forces in 1790. Contents: ff. 1r-58v: Augustine of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

154. Add MS 11878

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11878
Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23-24:11)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced in Luxeuil and contains book 23 and the first part of book 24 of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. It is a fragment from a larger volume. Other fragments from the original volume are now Add MS 41567 (f. 118); Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. ms. 2243 (ff. 1-2); Paris, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

155. Add MS 11943

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11943
Title:
Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

156. Add MS 11983

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11983
Title:
Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1075-c 1125
Extent:
A parchment codex

157. Add MS 12042

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12042
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-32v: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 32v-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun (or 'Jehan Chopinel'), composed between 1269 and 1278, begins with the rubric, 'Encor des co[m]pla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 166 folios

158. Add MS 12219

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12219
Title:
Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:
Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 volume (42 folios)

159. Add MS 12279

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12279
Title:
Bhāratayuddha
Scope & Content:
Bhāratayuddha. The beginning of the volume is Old Javanese text, each line followed by a word-for-word explanation in Modern Javanese. On f. 146r, a second section begins, ing andap punika pratelanipun ing lapal kimawon tanpa makna, and is Old Javanese only. A romanised Malay note inside ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:
1814
Extent:
1 volume; 178 folios

160. Add MS 12321

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 12321
Title:
Undang Wangsul Kutara Manawa Sastra, extracts from the Ramayana in Old Javanese and Javanese, and and eye-copy of the Old Javanese Cane charter
Scope & Content:
A: ff. 1r.-36r. Undang Wangsul KutaraManazva Sastra. The note on the MS saying this is ‘from a copy on palm leaves given to me [Crawford] in 1814 by the Raja of Blilling [Boleleng]’ actually belongs on Add. 12336 and the note on that MS belongs here. According to Jonker, 1885, p. 33, this is a s...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:
1814
Extent:
1 item

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »

  • BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) 3,420