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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12369
Title:
Scope & Content:: A VOLUME in Bugis, apparently an European Calendar for the Years 1714 -1718, adapted to the Arabic months. Religious sentences in Arabic are intermixed. Folio. [12,369.] Calendars: An European calendar for 1714-1718, adapted to the Arabic months: Bugis. Bugis language and character: Mss. in the.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1714-1718
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12370
Title:: Bugis translation of Tanbih al-Ghafilin
Scope & Content:: Buginese translation of a part of the Arabic work Tanbīh al-Ghāfilīn by Abu'l-Laith as-Samarkandī. According to an Arabic note on f. 2r. the MS contains the middle part of the work, as-sijill al-wāsit min Tanbīh al-ghāfilīn, and, according to a Buginese note on f. 4r., the second part of the ‘ad...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 114 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12371
Title:: Akhbar al-akhira
Scope & Content:: A: ff. 86r.-25r. A Buginese translation of Akhbár al-ákhira by Nūr ad-Dīn ar-Rānīrī. Dated A.H. 1178 [A.D. 1764/5] (for this copy) and A.H. 1149 [A.D. 1736] (either for the original of which this is a copy or, less likely, for the date of the translation into Buginese). B: ff. 24r.-18v. A desc...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1764
Extent:: 86 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12373
Title:: Bugis diary from the court of Bone, 1793-1799
Scope & Content:: Diary running from Jan. 1793 to Dec. 1799 (a further year, presumably 1800, is filled in but without the year stated). The diarist must have been a person living in the immediate vicinity of the king of Bone. He reports upon meetings of the members of the high State College, and on events in the...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Buginese
Date Range:: 1793-1799
Extent:: 110 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12374
Title:: Verses from the Quran in Arabic, with Bugis translation
Scope & Content:: Verses from the Qur’an in Arabic, with Buginese translation (ff. 2r.-53r., 58v.-59v., 61v.-68r., 69v.-70r), without translation (ff. 53v.-58r), and with partial Buginese translation (ff. 1r.-2r). 72 written ff. (thereafter further unnumbered ff). Quran, in Arabic and Bugis script. (This descr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Buginese
Date Range:: Late 18th-early 19th century
Extent:: 73 folios; 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14042
Title:: Middle Dutch prayer-book
Scope & Content:: This Middle Dutch prayer-book contains a large section of rosaries and prayers dedicated to the Virgin Mary (ff. 5r-245v), followed by prayers dedicated to Christ and saints, and prayers for Communion. The manuscript contains a large number of pasted and sewn in coloured woodcuts and engravings....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle
Date Range:: 1517-1523
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14250
Title:: Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Plympton annals for the years 1066-1177
Scope & Content:: This is the only extant manuscript from the Augustinian priory of Saints Peter and Paul in Plympton. The manuscript contains a copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) that Bede (d. 673, d. 735), a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Monk...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14252
Title:: Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14399
Title:: A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
Scope & Content:: passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 14784
Title:: St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia; St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; St Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents. f. 2r: Excerpt from St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Retractationes (Retractions) (Book 2, chapter 53), beginning: 'Scripsi duos libros ad illustrem virum Valerium comitem'. ff. 2r-3r: St Augustine, Epistola ad Volusianum (Epistle to Volusianus), beginning...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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