Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; Angelus Politianus, Orfeo
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Contents: A Venetian compilation of Italian Renaissance drama and poetry written for the Ariani family (a noble family of Venice). ff. 1r-v: Niccolò da Correggio, Prologue to Cephalo; ff. 2r-21v: Niccolò da Correggio, Cephalo; ff. 21v-28v: Angelo Ambrogini, (nicknamed 'Politianus'), Orfeo; ...
Sacramentarium Gregorianum with supplements by Benedict of Aniane
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The Gregorian Sacramentary is a collection of prayers created in the time of Pope Gregory I (b. c. 540, d. 604) for the Pope's recitation of the Eucharistic liturgy in Rome's churches. Between 810 and 814 the Benedictine monk and monastic reformer Benedict of Aniane (b. c. 750, d. 821) selected ...
Friendship album or ‘Stammbuch’ of Sir Thomas Cuming of Scotland, during his time at the University of Heidelberg. Containing autographs and coloured arms, collected principally at Basle, Heidelberg, Leiden, London, Prague and Vienna, in the years 1612-1623. ff. 1r-2v Copy of letters from Fred...
THE PSALMS, with the Canticles, the Nicene Creed, and the Lord's Prayer; a sermon of Mar Ephraem on repentance, and of Chrysostom on the same subject; a Hymn for the dead; and the Creed of Severus. On vellum ; written in the year of the Hijra 260 (A.D. 873-4). Quarto. [17,109.] Bible Syriac: ...
Office for the burial of priests and monks; very imperfect. On vellum; of the ixth or xth century. Small Folio. [17,131.] Liturgies Syriac: Office for burial.
A codex of various works, both poetic and theological, in Syriac. The contents of the codex are as follows: ff. 2r-3v : Three hymns, including one on Julian Saba, all of which appear to be in the hand of the scribe of the main text ; f. 3v : A doxology; f. 4r : A sedrā for Lent ; f. 4v : ...
MAR JACOB, bishop of Batnæ, Sermons; very imperfect. On vellum of thevithorviitheentury. Quarto. [17,155.] Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermons, hymns and prayers: in Syriac.