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1. Add MS 18332

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Add MS 18332
Title:
A collection of theological works and excerpts of works by Augustine, Pseudo-Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, and Pseudo-Ambrose
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Added inscriptions and pentrials on an originally blank folio, from late 9th to the 13th century, the main inscription being the opening words of the midnight mass at Christmas: ‘Grates nunc omnis reddamus’. ff. 1v-10v: Pseudo-Augustine, De Consolatione mortuorum (On the cons...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 9th century-3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. 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

3. 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

4. Add MS 40076

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Add MS 40076
Title:
Rule and Privileges of the Poor Clares
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6r: The Rule of the Poor Clares, a copy of the Bull of Clement VI, confirming that of Clement IV (made 31 December 1266), which in turn confirms and recites the Rule of the Poor Clares, as drawn up by Rinaldo, Bishop of Ostia and Velletri (afterwards Pope Alexander IV), and ap...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1446-1448
Extent:
1 volume

5. Burney MS 239

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Burney MS 239
Title:
Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-51r: Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110 BC, d. c. 25 BC), Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium (Lives of Eminent Commanders), including the lives from Miltiades to Hannibal, beginning: 'Non dubito fore plerosque'. f. 51r: Æmilius Probus (fl. c. 379-395), verse dedication o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1435-c 1450
Extent:
A parchment codex

6. 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

7. Harley MS 2451

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Harley MS 2451
Title:
Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-270v: Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina (A doctrinal compendium). Decoration: Large white vine initial in colours (f. 1r). Numerous smaller initials in blue with red penwork decoration (ff. 31v, 41v, 47r, 49r, 61r, 65v, 68v, etc.), occasionally with reserved lines. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 2464

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Harley MS 2464
Title:
Petrus Isolellae, Summa grammaticae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-36v: Petrus Isolellae [de Isolella Cremonensis], Summa grammaticae. Decoration: Large historiated initial with the author Petrus Isolellae in profile and acanthus leaves extending into the margins to form a full border; with a female figure in the lower margin and a kneeling ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 2514

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Harley MS 2514
Title:
Papias, Ars grammatica
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-66v: Papias, Ars grammatica. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including flowers and foliate motifs (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the other colour including flowers and foliate motifs (ff. 6r,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Harley MS 2516

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2516
Title:
Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-39r: Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae. The manuscript contains an addition: f. 1r: A Venetian statute (see Foligno, 'Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi' (1907), p. 367). f. 39v: Added inscriptions in mostly medieval hands, including an excerpt from Juv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

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