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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15248
Title:: Bible moralisée
Scope & Content:: Contents: Bible moralisée, a picture Bible containing excerpts from the Old and New Testaments, with a moralising commentary, ff. 1r-3v: Preface, incipit, 'Comment la sainte scripture se puet exposer en quatre manieres'; ff. 3v-15v: Preface, incipit 'Cy commence la declaration de plusieurs ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1455
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15254
Title:: The first volume of a five-part Latin Bible
Scope & Content:: The first volume of a five-part Latin Vulgate Bible (the other volumes are Add MS 15255-15258). This volume contains the Old Testament books of Genesis to Ruth. The Bible was produced at the Benedictine abbey of St James in Liège, where it was restored by Abbot Egidius Briamont in 1657 (see insc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1430
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15410
Title:: A fifteenth-century manuscript containing Old Testament books from a Dutch History Bible, featuring commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179).
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains Old Testament books, from the Book of Genesis until the Book of Esther, in a Dutch History Bible in which the biblical text alternates with commentary from the Historia Scholastica by the French theologian Peter Comestor (d. 1179). In the fifteenth century the History Bi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch
Date Range:: c 1440
Extent:: Parchment manuscript

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15422
Title:: Works of Naucratius and Germanos, Bishop of Amathous
Scope & Content:: Works of Naucratius and Germanos, Bishop of Amathous, including: Germanos, Bishop of Amathous in Cyprus, Letter to the Clergy of his Bishopric on the Seven Sacraments; inc. Γερμανός ἐλέῳ Θεοῦ ταπεινὸς ἐπίσκοπος Ἀμαθούντων; expl. ἐν ἑκάστῃ Ἐκκλησίᾳ καθ' ἑκάστην νηστείαν.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15442
Title:: Psalms with commentary by Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭayyib
Scope & Content:: This still largely unedited commentary of the Psalms was composed by the physician, philosopher and East Syriac theologian Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭayyib (d. 1043). Ibn Ṭayyib was read by famous Muslim philosophers such as Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd, as well as by the Jewish polymath Maimonides....
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1188
Extent:: Codex; 214 fols.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15649
Title:: Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King James I, 1 Jan 1605, at the Palace of Westminster
Scope & Content:: Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King James I, 2 Jac. I (i.e. 1 Jan 1605) at the Palace of Westminster. The roll is faded in places, and the recto, the list of New Year’s gifts of plate by the King, is incomplete. Evidently the very first membrane of recipients has been lost: Earls and ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1604-1605
Extent:: 1 roll

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