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1. Add MS 38816

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MISCELLANEOUS volume containing : 1. Hexham Saints and their miracles, by Ethelred (Ailredus), Abbot of Rievaulx, headed "Incipiunt miracula sanctorum patrum qui in sancta Hagustaldensi ecclesia requiescunt, dictata a uenerabili Hethelredo abbate." Beg. "Presentis diei festiuitas." Printed in Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 38816-38824

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Dunn Manuscripts
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Purchased at the sale of the library of the late Mr. George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
9 items

3. Add MS 38818, ff 1-135

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Palladius, De Agricultura; Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, De Architectura; Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari;Justinian, Institutiones (extracts)
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This part was copied by a hand described as 'Continental-looking' (unpublished notes by Michael Gullick). The copy of De Architectura (On Architecture) derives from an English version of the text (see Texts and Transmission (1983), p. 443). Contents: ff. 1r-48v: Palladius (fl. 4th century), D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
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Part of Add MS 38818

4. Add MS 38818, ff 136-190

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Add MS 38818, ff 136-190
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Indices of words and concepts related to works of St Augustine and Prosper of Aquitaine, Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini; a table of chapters of Isidore of Seville, Sententie libri tres
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Contents: ff. 136r-185v: Indices of words and concepts related to different works of St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430). It includes also an index for Prosper of Aquitaine (b. c. 390, d. c. 463), Epigrammata ex sententiis Sancti Augustini (Epigrams on St Augustine's Sentences). Indices on St Augusti...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A part of Add MS 38818

5. Add MS 38818, ff 191-262

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Add MS 38818, ff 191-262
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A collection of sermons; Robert of Basevorn, Forma predicandi; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis (excerpt)
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Formerly bound in a different order. This part was originally prefaced by Robert of Basevorn (fl. 14th century), Forma predicandi (Form of Preaching). Contents: ff. 191r-255v: A collection of sermons in several hands. The original order of this collection is given at the end in a list of cont...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
Part of Add MS 38818

6. Add MS 38820

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THEOLOGICAL and ethical compilations, viz.: 1. "Auctoritates pro virtutibus contra vitia" (so the modern title on the back) : a collection of biblical texts suitable for texts of sermons (a section de tempore and de sanctis, including St. Francis, is at the end of pt. ii, ff. 46-59) divided into...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of 13th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 38821

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REGISTRUM BREVIUM, statutes and other legal collections, temp. Edw. I, doubtless compiled for use in Lincolnshire. Contents: 1. "Registrum": a register of writs in the name of Edward I, and evidently compiled in the first years (1272-1275) of his reign, since the formulae of the writs of De nati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1285
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 38822

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PSALTER, with calendar of Sarum use. The contents are: "Oracio de sancta Trinitate" (beg. "Domine deus omnipotens qui es trinus et unus qui es semper in omnibus") and other prayers. f. 1 ; Calendar, witli numerous English saints and the Sarum feast of relics (Sund. after Transl. of St. Thomas in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 38824

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PRECEDENT-BOOK of Ralph Howland of Maidenhead as J.P. for Berkshire, relating chiefly to events in the neighbourhood of Maidenhead, 1711-1732, with a note of his appointment (f. 2), a list of constables, overseers, surveyors, etc., for Cookham and Bray, 1710-1733 (f. 60), and an index (f. 64). M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item