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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11283
Title:: Bestiary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the earliest extant manuscript of a type of bestiaries known as 'Clark's Second-Family' that brings in new materials by following a system of classification into beasts, birds and reptiles. This taxonomy is supported by illustrations. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: A Bestiary, begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11943
Title:: Macrobius, Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-49r: Macrobius (b. c 370, d. c 435), Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis (Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio), preceded by a prologue (ff. 1r-3r), beginning: 'Cum in Africam venissem A Manlio consule ad quartam legionem tribunus ut scitis militum'. Book 1 (ff. 3v-29v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 15603
Title:: Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-v: A fragment of a Missal, written in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century. ff. 2r-184r: Isidore of Seville (d. 636), bishop of Seville, Etymologiae (Etymologies), followed by a versified colophon of four lines, beginning: 'Laudetur christus nostros qui perficit actus / Et sum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17808
Title:: Scientific treatises on Music, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of scientific works. It opens with treatises on music by the Italian Benedictine monk Guido of Arezzo (b. c. 995, d. 1050) that were highly influential in the development of polyphonic music and staff notation. The section on music is followed by works on ar...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter or 2nd half of the 11th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 18298
Title:: Psalter with gloss in Latin
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from the second half of the twelfth century contains a Psalter and Canticles with an interlinear and marginal gloss that has been attributed to the circle of Anselm of Laon (d. 1117). Decoration: ff. 1r-2r: A Prologue to the Psalter, beginning (after a 'Nota'): 'Prophetia est a...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21995
Title:: Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript from France contains a copy of the medieval work Passionarius Galeni (Passionary of Galen), attributed to Claudius Galenus (b. 129, d. c. 200/c. 216), Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher; but actually written by Gariopontus (d. 1050), teacher at the School of Sa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22398
Title:: Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collection of capitularies made in 827 by Ansegisus (d. c. 833), abbot of Fontenelles. The manuscript includes various other Carolingian legal texts and two short tracts on urine and prognostics. Contents: f. 2r: A fragment of a breviary to the Gospel of Matthew in a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22719
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1015, d. 1087), physician and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino. It also includes De Physicis Ligaturis (On Physical Ligatures), the Latin translation of a work by the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31980(6)
Title:: Mausoleum [Halicarnassus]. Western staircase. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View of excavated flight of steps, with one of the diggers resting on a wooden framework in the foreground. Reproduced as a tinted lithograph in Charles Thomas Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae' (2 vols., London, 1861), v...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31980(7)
Title:: Mausoleum [Halicarnassus]. Northern Peribolus wall. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the excavated wall, with a sapper corporal standing on the left. Reproduced as a tinted lithograph in Charles Thomas Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae' (2 vols., London, 1861), vol. 1, plate 6 (bottom). Another co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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