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11. Add MS 47679

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. VIII (formerly MS. 411). AGRIMENSORES ROMANI, etc.: extracts from Roman treatises on land surveying and geometry, together with similar medieval works; 12th cent. Writers include Frontinus, Agennius Urbicus, Epaphroditus, Vitruvius Rufus, Varro, Balbus, Siculus Flaccus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 47680

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Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum Secretorum, translated by Philip of Tripoli (Philippus Tripolitanus)
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The manuscript includes a pseudo-Aristotelian Arabic treatise, known as the Secretum Secretorum, in the Latin translation by Philip of Tripoli, imperfect. The manuscripts was intended by Walter of Milemete (fl. 1326-73) as a companion volume to his own work, De nobilitatibus sapientiis et prud...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1326-1327
Extent:

76 folios.

13. Add MS 47681

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. X (formerly MS. 480). POGGIO BRACCIOLINI, FACETIAE, written by Felice Feliciano in 1461. Latin. The text of this collection of humorous anecdotes (composed between 1438 and 1453) was copied, it is stated, 'ex libello quodam Pogij florentini' (f. 2), apparently an incomplete ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 47682

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Title:
Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
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A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1327-1335
Extent:

A parchment codex, 42 folios

15. Add MS 47683

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Detached leaf from a giant Bible
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This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf