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Project / Collection England and France 700-1200 Project Place Northern Italy

1. Add MS 24144

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Add MS 24144
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

2. Add MS 34209

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Add MS 34209
Title:
Antiphonal and Gradual of Ambrosian use
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century Gradual and Antiphonal is thought to contain one of the earliest surviving redactions of music for the winter part of the Ambrosian liturgy. Contents: ff. 1r-135v: A Gradual with Antiphonal according to the Ambrosian use, imperfect: extending from the middle of the 1st Sunda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 14–45

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Cotton MS Nero A II, ff 14–45
Title:
Sermons; Augustine, De Fide Catholica (Sermon 233); De Litteris; Chronicle from Creation to 728; Augustine, Sermo de Symbolo (excerpt); Origin, In Lucam Homiliae (excerpt Sermon 12); Ratio de Cursus; Fortunatianus, Commentary on the Gospels (excerpts); John Cassian, Collationes (excerpt); Jerome, Contra Vigilantium; Defensor of Ligugé, Liber scintillarum (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 14r-27r: An anonymous sermon on the Works of Mercy, beginning ‘Isaias propheta dicit ille vobis qui jungitis agrum ad agrum’; excerpt from a sermon ('Venus, A Man') against the observance of pagan customs (see Levison, England and the Continent (1946), pp. 303-04 (as ‘C’)); partly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 8th century-1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Nero A II