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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15418
Title:: Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Liber divinorum operum (Book of Divine Works) by Hildegard von Bingen (b. c. 1098, d. 1179), a German Benedictine abbess, polymath and medieval mystic. Hildegard originally composed the work between 1163 and 1173. It is arranged in three parts and provides details of...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15456
Title:: Obituary calendar of the Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss
Scope & Content:: An obituary calendar of the Abbey of St Quirinus, Neuss, recording the obits (or death anniversaries) of the abbey's former members, patrons and other local figures which would be announced in the nuns' daily chapter meeting after the office of prime. For a facsimile, edition, and translation o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Low and Latin
Date Range:: 1421-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15535
Title:: PLANS of military operations, in North America, etc. ; namely, of Fort Edward, 1755;-of Fort William Henry, and Camp at Lake George; -of the battle fought on the plains of Abraham, 13 Sept. 1759 ;-of Fort Niagara, and the attack made thereupon, July, 1759 ;-of Boston and its environs ;-of the attack of the French upon York, in Virginia, June, 1782 ;-of Pondicherry, drawn by Lieut. John Hoyman, 1770;-Bowles's engraved map of the United States, 1783, with a continuation of the boundary line, i...
Scope & Content:: Niagara: Plan of the fort and the attack made thereupon: 1759. York, Virginia: Plan of the attack of the French upon: 1782. Fort William Henry, North America: Plan of. Pondicherry, India: Plan of, by J. Hoyman: 1770. Lieutenant John Hoyman: Plan of Pondicherry: 1770. George, Lake, New York ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1716-1783
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15582
Title:: Collection of medical tracts and excerpts in Irish
Scope & Content:: Medical tracts and excerpts taken from various sources. A detailed description of the Irish material is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 262-80. ff. 8r-14v: Tract derived from John of Gaddesden's Rosa Anglicana, book I, chapter 19 ('De passionibus stomachi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:: 1563
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15600
Title:: Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires with scholia
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Satires (Satires) by the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenal (b. c. 50, d. after 127), together with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents: ff. 1v-125r: Juvenal, Satires, with interlinear and marginal scholia, preceded by a biographical prologue beginning ‘Iuniu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd or 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15601
Title:: Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae; Lupus of Ferrières, De Metris Boetii Libellus; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae; Commentary on Persius’ Satires; Calcidius, Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus; Prudentius, Psychomachia, Cathemerinon; a short tract on prosody and meter; Baebius Italicus, Ilias Latina
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Consolatio Philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy) of Boethius (b. 480, d. 524) with interlinear and marginal glosses, De Metris Boetii Libellus (A Treatise on Boethius’ Meter) by Lupus of Ferrières (b. 805, d. 862) and the Ilias Latina (Latin Illiad) by Baebius...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15602
Title:: Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Institutio Canonicorum Aquisgranensis (The Institutions of the Canons of Aachen), the resolutions of the Council of Aachen of 816 pertaining to the life of ecclesiastical canons. The text has been at times associated with Amalarius, bishop of Trier (b. 775, d. 850), ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15603
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: A fragment of a Missal, written in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. ff. 2r-184r: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), bishop of Seville, Etymologiae (Etymologies), followed by a versified colophon of four lines, beginning: 'Laudetur christus nostros qui perficit actus / Et sum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15606
Title:: Anthology of religious and didactic texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: Religious and didactic poems and prose texts in Burgundian French: First section: ff . 2r-5r: Calendar; ff. 6r-17v: De David li prophecie, an allegorical battle between the vices and virtues ff. 18r-35r: Eructavit, a rhyming paraphrase of Psalm 45, composed in 1180 for 'Madame d...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15686
Title:: The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-33r: The Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare, a German translation of the Regula sororum sancta Clarae, promulgated by Pope Urban IV, 18 October 1263, written for the nuns of St Clare of Villingen, Swabia; ending with a Latin colophon, 'Explicit regula Sancte Cla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: c 1480
Extent:: 1 volume

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