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281. Add MS 23623

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Title:
Collection of 17th-century compositions by Dr. John Bull, and possibly others
Scope & Content:
ff. 181. Compositions, apparently for Organ (see no. 26), by Jan Bull, sc. Dr. John Bull, with the possible exceptions of nos. 2, 9-12, 47, and 50-52. Transcribed on two staves of 6 lines shortly before and after his death, 18 January-16 November, 1628, etc., and probably composed while he was o...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Dutch, English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1628
Extent:
1 volume (181 folios)

282. Add MS 23779

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Title:
Collection of compositions for strings and organ, by Giovanni Coperario [John Cooper, Music Master to the children of James I.].
Scope & Content:
ff. 2b-62. String trios with a bass for organ, by Giovanni Coperario. See Quartets for Organ and Strings, below (p. 269). ff. 2b-62. Compositions for 2 treble viols and a bass with organ, by Giovanni Coperario. Score and organ part. They are divided into sets of three pieces (Fancy, Allemande,...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century - 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (104 folios)

283. Add MS 23938

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Title:
Receipts and expenses of the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou to England
Scope & Content:
This account records the expedition to bring Queen Margaret of Anjou (b. 1430, d. 1482) to England for her marriage to King Henry VI (r. 1422-1461, 1470-1471). The account was compiled by two royal clerks, John Breknoke and John Everdon, covering the period between 17 July 1444 and 16 October 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
17 July 1444-16 October 1445
Extent:
1 volume

284. Add MS 23944

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Title:
St Augustine, De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium; Contra Julianum
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century manuscript contains De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia ad Valerium (On Marriage and Lust to Valerius) and Contra Julianum (Against Julianus) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript originates from France, but was in England by the late 11th century, when it served as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

285. Add MS 24065

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Title:
Pierre Desceliers, World map
Scope & Content:
Map of the known world comissioned by Henry II of France (r. 1547–59) or the Duc de Montmorency. One of the earliest maps to show Canada and Australia (‘Terre Australle’). Includes twenty-six long descriptive texts, for which no other source is known. Decoration: Hand-painted illustrations of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1550
Extent:

Parchment roll

286. Add MS 24066

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Title:
Ranulf of Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae; Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Statutes of England; various legal texts
Scope & Content:
This English manuscript contains a number of legal texts from the 12th and the 14th centuries. It includes, among other texts, the Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regum Angliae (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England Commonly called Glanvill) and the earliest copy o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1190-14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

287. Add MS 24142

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Title:
Bible ('Bible of St Hubert', ‘Codex Hubertianus')
Scope & Content:
This is one of the six extant copies of the thorough critical revision of St Jerome’s text of the Vulgate carried out around the year 800 by Theodulf (d. 821), bishop of Orléans and abbot of Fleury (c. 798-818). Arranged in three columns and written in a small hand more often used for glossing. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

288. Add MS 24143

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Title:
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 2-5)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on the Book of Job) (imperfect), beginning at the end of chapter 52 (Book 2): '[...] concremare [est flamma eas] divini amoris incendere, ut totum cor in Dei amore ardeat'. Book 2 ends imperfectly in the middle of chapter 56 (f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

289. Add MS 24144

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Title:
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum libri adversus paganos (fragments)
Scope & Content:
This is a collection of fragments of a copy of the Historiae Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans) by Paulus Orosius (fl. 5th century) that was written in the 1st quarter of the 8th century. The palaeographical features of the fragments suggest that the text may have been written in Nort...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 8th century
Extent:

Parchment fragments

290. Add MS 24145

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Title:
Sigebert of Gembloux, Chronica sive Chronographia Universalis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot contains one of the more than forty extant copies of the world chronicle that Sigebert of Gembloux (b. c. 1028, d. 1112), a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Gembloux and St Vincent in Metz, wrote between c. 1086 and 1106. The world chronicle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century-4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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