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Name Alexander, called The Great, 356-323 BC

1. Add MS 7905

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İskendername - اسكندرنامه
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This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
940
Extent:

1 text, 211 ff

2. Add MS 7918

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İskendername - اسكندرنامه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a copy of Ahmedi's İskendername or Alexandreide. Ahmedi, whose full name was, according to one of the copies in the British Library's holdings, Tacuddin Ahmet İbn-i İbrahim el-Ahmedi, is mentioned in the Şakaik (f 18r) and in the Tac'ut-tevarih (f 111r) as one of the Ulema o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:

1 text, 251 ff

3. Add MS 14055

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Title:
Kitāb al-ḥiyal fī al-ḥurūb wa-fatḥ al-madāʾin wa-ḥifẓ al-durūb كتاب الحيل في الحروب وفتح المدائن وحفظ الدروب Ibn Mankalī, Muḥammad ابن منكلي، محمد
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A manual on the military arts supposed to have been discovered in the tomb of Alexander the Great at Alexandria and translated from Greek into Arabic (see ff. 2v, line 7-3r, line 2). In fact, the author is thought to be the mamluk general and tactician Muḥammad Ibn Mankalī or Ibn Manjlī (محمد ب...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. vi+224+v

4. Add MS 22635

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1. "CRONICA fratris Martini [Poloni] domini pape [Nicolai III.] penitentiarii et capellani," usque ad 1277; cum additamentis usque ad 1334. This copy contains (f. 25 b) the beginning of the passage relative to Pope Joan. In the middle of the pontificate of Boniface VIII. a leaf [after f. 40] is missing. f. 2. 2. "Cathalogus Abbatum Monaslerij Gemblacensis" [Gembloux, in the province of Namur], usque ad mortem Godefridi, 1323, f. 43. 3. "Libellus Bede presbyteri de locis sanctis, quem de ...
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includes: f. 2 Martinus Polonus, Dominican Papal Chaplain, Archbishop of Gnese: Chronica: 14th cent. f. 43 Gembloux Abbey; Belgium: List of abbats: 14th cent.: Lat. ff. 44, 52 Bede, Venerable: De locis sanctis, et de sex hujus sæculi ætatibus: 14th cent. f. 46 b Lucius Annæus Seneca: De remedii...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 22819

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QUINTI Curtii de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni Regis Macedonum libri III.-X.; with marginal gloss. The books are numbered i.-viii. Vellum. In an Italian hand; with illuminated initials; XVth cent. Quarto. Quintus Curtius Rufus: De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni: 15th cent. Art. Illuminations and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 23891

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GUALTERI de Castellione Alexandreidos Libri X.; with the author's preface in prose, and an interlinear and marginal commentary. At the beginning and end of the poem, in addition to a few commonplaces, are 1. "Descripcio vite ipsius Alexandri," beginning, "Quoniam materiam aliter pre manibus habemus," f. 2. 2. The preface repeated with a commentary. Lat. f. 99. 3. Part of a letter from Albert [son of Albert le Gros, Duke of Brunswick], Bishop of Halberstadt, remitting certain payments in ...
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Philippus Gualterus de Castellione: Alexandreis: 13th cent. Alexander, the Great: G. de Castellione Alexandreis: 13th cent. includes: f. 101 Halberstadt, Saxony: Letter of the Bishop relating to the fabric of the Cathedral: 1328.: Lat. f. 101 Albert of Brunswick-Göttingen, Bishop of Halbersta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 25712

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1. CAII Crispi Sallustii de conjuratione Catilinæ. Imperfect. f. 2. 2. Ejusdem de bello Jugurthino, f. 17. 3. Sixti Pythagorici enchiridion, f. 43. 4. "Vita, Mores et Res geseæ M[arci] Tu[l]lii Ci[ceronis], p[er] d[omi]num L[eonardum de Brunis] Aretinum," f. 50. 5. "Inveenva adversvs ipocritas Leonardi Arretini," f. 71 b. 6. Joannes Franciscus "Pogius [Bracciolinus] de varietate fortune et situ et moribus Indie," f. 76. 7. Leonardi de Brunis Aretini "De re militari," f. 88. 8. ...
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includes: ff. 2, 17 Caius Sallustius Crispus: De conjuratione Catilince et de bello Jugurthino: 15th cent.: Imperf. f. 43 Sextus Pythagoricus: Enchiridion: 15th cent. ff. 50-71 Marcus Tullius Cicero: Vita, per L. de Brunis: 15th cent. ff. 50-71 Leonardo Bruno, of Arezzo: Vitæ ex Plutarcho Latin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 26784

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MISCELLANEOUS treatises, letters, poemis, etc. Lat. and Ital. 1. I Trionfi del Petrarcha. Imperfect, and some parts misplaced. f. 2. 2. "Epistola Beati Bernardi de cura et modo rei familiaris gubernande," f. 26. 3. "Oratio ad indcendum stomacum de mulieribus;" attributed to Leonardo Justiniani, f. 28 b. 4. Eugenii papæ iv epistolæ,-ad Humfredum, ducem Gloucestriæ, de concilio Ferrariensi; [Feb. 1438], f. 30 b;-ad Universitatem Parisiensem de concilio Basiliensi; Florentiæ, 1 Oct. s.a...
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includes: ff. 2-25 Francesco Petrarca, poet: I Trionfi: 15th cent.: Imperf. ff. 26-28 Saint Bernard,; Abbot of Clairvaux: De cura rei familiaris: 15th cent. ff. 28, b-30 Leonardo Giustiniani: Oratio ad inducendum stomachum de mulieribus: 15th cent. f. 30 b Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 30026

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"ACTUS et epistole Alexandri macedonis Imperatoris magni quomodo vniuersum orbem suo imperio subiugauit " : the abridged version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes, known as the Historia de Proeliis. See the Catalogue of Romances, p. 120. With the exception of the rubrics of the chapters, the text agrees generally with the edition printed at Strassburg in 1486. At f. 66, in another hand, is " Somnium Regis Pharaonis expositum de regia disciplina, et sunt xxti littere." Only the first letter and a fe...
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Romances: Actus et epistolæ Alexandri Magni: 14th cent. Alexander, the Great: Actus et Epistolae: 14th cent. includes: f. 66 Pharaoh; King of Egypt: Somnium Pharaonis expositum, by Jean de Limoges: 14th cent. f. 66 Jean de Limoges: Somnium Pharaonis expositum: 14th cent. f. 67 b Tales: Vision...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 33371

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FRAGMENTS of the following works:- 1. Bædæ Historia Ecclesiastica: extending, with frequent lacunæ, from lib. iii. 17 to the end of the summary. With the Colophon " Explicit liber historiarum gentis Anglorum Bede presbiteri ad Ceoluulfum regem." f. 1. 2. Julii Valerii Res Gestæ Alexandri Macedonis: lib. i. 7-12, as in Zacher, J. Valerii Epitome, 1867, and lib. iii. 22-54 as in Mai, Class. Auct. Tom. vii., 1835, but epitomised. f. 25. 3. Epistola Alexandri regis ad Aristotilem de Mirabi...
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includes: f. 1 Beda: Historia Ecclesiastica: fragments: late 12th cent. ff. 1-24 England General Chronicles and History: Bede's Historia ecclesiastica: fragments: circ. 1200. f. 25 Julius Valerius: Res gestæ Alexandri : fragments: late 12th cent. f. 25 Alexander, the Great: J. Valerii res gestæ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 12th century-c 1200
Extent:
1 item

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