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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16626
Title:: Vishnusahasranama
Scope & Content:: The Vishnusahasranama, the Thousand Names of Vishnu in Sanskrit, an extract from the Mahabharata. Copied in large Devanagari writing by a Kashmirian scribe, Pandit Motirama. The text, enclosed in frames painted in colour and gold, is accompanied by several elaborate miniatures depicting Hindu...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1812
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16918
Title:: Usuard, Martyrology; lections for Sundays and liturgical feasts
Scope & Content:: This manuscript was originally bound together with Add MS 16979, containing a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Gilles and the Rule of St Benedict. The original manuscript was copied by scribe who identifies himself as 'Petrus Guillelmus', a Benedictine monk from Saint-Gilles, and wh...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1129
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16950
Title:: Gradual, Cistercian Use ('The Seligenthal Gradual')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-4r: Hymns (beginning imperfectly). ff. 4v-166v: The Temporal, from the first Sunday in Advent (beginning 'Ad te levavi') to the 23rd Sunday following Pentecost (beginning 'Dicit dominus ego'), including the Litany (ff. 100r-102v). ff. 167r-237r: The Sanctoral, from St Step...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1260
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16961
Title:: Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Commentary on the Rule of St Benedict
Scope & Content:: This 10th-century manuscript contains a commentary on the Rule of St Benedict. The commentary was written by Smaragdus (b. c. 760, d. c. 840), a monk from the Benedictine abbey of of Saint-Mihiel near Verdun, after the Rule of St Benedict (b. 480, d. 547) had been made the norm for all monastic ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16963
Title:: John the Deacon, Vita Gregorii Magni
Scope & Content:: This is a 10th- or 11th-century manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia). It contains the life of St Gregory the Great (d. 604) by John the Deacon of Rome, also known as Johannes Hymonides (d. late 9th century), a popular work among monastic audiences. The manuscript remained...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century-11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16964
Title:: John Cassian, De Institutiones Coenobiorum; Collationes Sanctum Patrum
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is made out of two parts (part 1: ff. 1-167; part 2: ff. 168-248) that were produced separately at the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot (Wallonia) in the last quarter of the 12th century and were joined there as well. The resulting manuscript contains complete copies of De Instituti...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16974
Title:: St Jerome, Commentary on Matthew (books I-IV); Eusebius of Caesara, Chronicon (with additions); Stephen of Saint Trond, Miracula Sancti Trudonis; Passio Sancti Gorgonii; Passio Sancti Cornelii Pape
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew by St Jerome (b. 347, d. 420), the Chronicon (Chronicle), a universal history written by Eusebius of Caesarea (b. c. 260, d. 339), the Miracula Sancti Trudonis (Miracles of St Trond) by Stephen of Saint-Trond (fl. c. 1050), and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century-4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16979
Title:: Necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes); Regula Sancti Benedicti
Scope & Content:: This manuscript consists of a necrology from the Benedictine abbey of St Gilles (diocese of Nîmes) followed by the rule of St Benedict. The manuscript is ending with several added notes related to the abbey and its confraternity. In addition to the monks of St Gilles, the necrology mentions Ray...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 16984
Title:: Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Scope & Content:: Contents: This 12th-century manuscript consists of two treatises dedicated to the art of rhetoric. Although they were composed by different authors, the two rhetorical works are closely related. The De Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17012
Title:: Books of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Book of Joan Vaux')
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is a Book of Hours that was made in Antwerp around the turn of the 16th century. It subsequently came to England, where it came into the posession of a lady of the Tudor court, possibly Joan Vaux (b. c. 1463, d. 1538), Lady Governess to the Princesses Margaret (b. 1489, d. 1541) ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 volume

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