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Name Beatty, Alfred Chester, Knight, mining engineer and art collector, 1875-1968

1. Add MS 43460

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Add MS 43460
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THEOLOGICAL WORKS OF ST AUGUSTINE AND ST JEROME, WITH COMMODIANUS, 'CARMEN APOLOGETICUM', in Latin. As follows:- (1) St Augustine, 'de vera Religione' (Migne, Patr. Lat., xxxiv, 121- 172), with prologue (ff. 1-5) taken from the 'Retractationes', beg. 'Tunc etiam de uera religione librum' (Migne, Patr. Lat., xxxii, 602-605). ff. 1-63. (2) St Augustine, 'de utilitate credendi' (Patr. Lat., xlii, 65-92); edited, from this, the leading, MS. by J. Zycha, Corpus Script. Eccl. Lat., xxv, §6, pa...
Scope & Content:
Saint Augustine: Various works: 8th cent. Palaeography: Works of SS. Augustine and Jerome and Commodianus, North Italian pre-Carolingian minuscule: 8th cent. includes: f. i Reverend Martin Joseph Routh, President of Magdalen College, Oxford: Annotation by: 1850.ff. ii, iv-v Sir Thomas Phi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
660-899
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 45681

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Vol. I (ff. 204). Abd al Masih-Budge. includes: ff.1-8 Yassa Abd al Masih, of Cairo: Letters to W. E. Crum: 1935-1936.: Mainly typewritten. ff.9-11 Hakim Abu-Seif, of Luxor: Letters to W. E. Crum: 1917. ff. 12-61b Charles Robert Cecil Austin Allberry, Coptic scholar: Letters to W. E. Crum: 193...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1884-1940
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 48985

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Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Salvin Hours')
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This manuscript was created in England in approximately 1270 (perhaps in the diocese of Lincoln) and is notable for its elaborate decoration and size, which is unusually large for the era. Contents: ff. 1v-45v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 46v-92r: Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 93r-128v: Hours...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1270
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A parchment codex

4. Add MS 50068

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KENYON PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 105). Letters to Kenyon from: 1. ff. 1-50. Caspar René Gregory and others relating to the numeration of Biblical manuscripts of the Greek New Testament; 1908. 2. ff. 51-105. Campbell Bonner and others relating to the Chester Beatty papyri; 1931-1940. Partly German ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1908-1940
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 52704

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COCKERELL PAPERS. Vol. LXXXII (ff. 246). Bai-Bel. includes: f. 1 Isobel Baillie, singer: Letter to S. C. Cockerell: 1947. ff. 2-92b Francis William Bain, orientalist: Letters etc., to S. C. Cockerell: 1905-1936. ff. 93-95b Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; Prime Minister: Letter to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1875-1968]
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 68923

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Add MS 68923
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CODEX SINAITICUS PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 534 + 508*, 509*). Papers; 7 Aug. 1933-5 Jul 1934. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang; Archbishop of Canterbury: Correspondence with Sir G. F. Hill: 1933-1934: Partly signed. James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister: Correspondence rel. to Codex Sinaiticus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
7 Aug 1933-5 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 item

7. Egerton MS 3055

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Egerton MS 3055
Title:
Suetonius, De vita Caesarum; Ausonius, Caesares
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This manuscript contains De vita Caesarum (The Twelve Caesars) by the Roman historian Suetonius (b.c. 69 , d. c. 122) and the poem Caesares (Emperors) by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. c. 395). Contents: f. 1v: Epitaphs in couplets dedicated to Julius Caesar, to the Roman emperor Nero, to a ‘certain ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
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A parchment codex

8. Egerton MS 3088

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Egerton MS 3088
Title:
TREATISES ON THE COMPOTUS by Bede and others; chronicles of Robert Losinga, Bishop of Hereford, and of Hugh of St Victor; and annals of Dore Abbey, co. Heref.; etc. Latin. The MS. (formerly Chester Beatty Western MS. 59) is described fully by E. G. Millar, The Library of A. Chester Beatty, ii, 193o, Text, pp. 65-70, and Plate CXXII. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., -iii, 1933-1934, p. 18. Arts. 1-6 and 12 are apparently copied from Cotton MS. Tiberius E. iv; see C. W. Jones, 'Manuscripts of Bede...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings: Chronological treatises: diagrams, etc., in colour: 13th cent. Samuel Charles Smith, bookbinder: Bound: 19th cent. Bindings: Dark blue morocco, gilt-tooled, by C. Smith: 19th cent. includes: f. iii Thomas Rodd, bookseller: Note of contents by: circ. 1838. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item