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311. Add MS 26762

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Title:
Theological tracts
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of theological tracts. It was produced at the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny, one of the eldest daughter houses of the Cistercian abbey of Cîteaux. The manuscript was preserved in the abbey's library from the 12th century until the monastery was dissolved by F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

312. Add MS 26866

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Title:
Psalter with gloss in Latin, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-229v: A Psalter with interlinear and marginal glosses from the Parva Glosatura (Minor Glosses) on the Psalms commonly attributed to Anselm of Laon (d. 1117) and his school, imperfect. It also includes the Canticles (ff. 214v-229v). Decoration: Large framed 'B' for 'Beatus' in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century-1st quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

313. Add MS 27278

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Title:
MEMORANDUM-BOOK of Sir Francis Bacon, afterwards Urd Verulam. The general title is, "Comentarius solutus sive Pandecta, sive Ancilla Memoriæ. Habet libros duos: 1. Comentarium transportatorum ex comentario vetere. 2. Commentarium novum et currentem." The first division alone is contained in the present volume, of which the special title is, "Lib. i. sive Comentarius transportatorum consistit ex diario et schedulis." It comprises memoranda for his conduct in public and private business, liter...
Scope & Content:
Diaries and Memoranda: Sir Francis Bacon: 1608, 1609. Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Note-book: 1608-1609.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

314. Add MS 27695

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Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: This item comprises 15 parchment leaves from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

15 parchment leaves and fragments, bound in an album.

315. Add MS 27920

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Title:
A noted Breviary (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-159v: A monastic Breviary with musical notation, beginning with the Temporale (ff. 1r-103v): 'Demoniacus iste apud Mattheum'; the Sanctorale (ff. 103v-159r); ending with the response 'Inclinans faciem meam', followed by an added antiphon for the Matins (ff. 159r-v). At least on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

316. Add MS 27926

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Title:
Gospels of St Luke and St John
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the second half of a Gospel-book, comprising the Gospels of St Luke and St John, made in Germany at the end of the 12th century and later housed in the library of the Augustinian nunnery of St Peter and St Paul, Heiningen, in the diocese of Hildesheim, lower Saxony. Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
1 volume

317. Add MS 28188

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Title:
Pontifical with litanies and benedictional (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a partial Pontifical and a partial Benedictional. The manuscript's distinctive 'Exeter-style' script and the presence of saints especially venerated at Exeter in the litanies, like Pancras and Sativola/Sidwell, suggest it was made at Exeter Cathedral between about 1050 a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of 11th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

318. Add MS 28260

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Title:
Moral and didactic texts in French
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: inserted leaves containing fragments of grammatical treatises in Latin in a 13th-century hand; ff. 3r-33v: Philip of Novara (Philippe de Novare) (b. 1195, d. c. 1270), Les Quatre Ages de l'Homme, a treatise on the four ages of Man, composed between 1265 and 1270 in the Cr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 101 folios

319. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

320. Add MS 29246

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Title:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, madrigals, masses, motets, and pieces originally written for string ensembles
Scope & Content:
Lute accompaniments to, or arrangements of, the following madrigals, masses, motets, etc., in Italian tablature. They appear to be arranged, roughly speaking, according to the number of voices, for which they were originally written, namely; 1-4, for two voices; 5-78, for 3 voices; 79 to end, fo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
after 1611
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

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