De septem septenis attributed to Robertus de Cursone or John of Salisbury (imperfect: text missing at the end).
Scope & Content:
Decoration: Large foliate initial 'D'(ifficillimis) in colours and gold, at the beginning of the text (f. 206v). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs
Joachim of Fiore, Commentary on Revelation (imperfect, text missing at the beginning)
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Incipit: '...signat. Ut enim proferamus breviter que non brevi coartanda sunt...' Decoration: Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), De presagiis temporum (excerpt from the Historia naturalis, book 18, 78-90) (imperfect: text missing at the end)
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Decoration: Space left for the initial 'D' at the beginning of the text (f. 224r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing including foliate motifs.
Register of grants and leases from the time of Prior William Holleway (1525–39). f. 1v: Bond of Richard, rector of Walcot, to pay an annual pension of 135s. 4d. to the Convent. f. 2r: Power of attorney to receive rents for the Convent. f. 2v: Bond of Prior and Convent for £100 to secure £61 1...
Karl der Grosse und die schottischen Heiligen (Poem on Charlemagne and the Scottish saints)
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Contents: ff. 1r-66r: Karl der Grosse und die schottischen Heiligen (Poem on Charlemagne and the Scottish saints). This poem, a production of the Irish monastic community (called 'scoti') on the Continent, is 'a close verse rendering of the principal sections (IV and V) of a Latin prose chronic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German, Middle High
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
The acts and decrees of the Council of Basel (1431-1449)
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Contents: ff. 1r-92v: Acta Concilii Basiliensis: the acts and decrees of the Council of Basel (1431-1449); ending with a document that is dated to 1448, followed by a note by Michael Galteri, canon from Bayeux, who served in the Council from 1435 to 1443 and authenticated its decree collections...
History of the foundation of the priory of Weihsanktpeter in Regensburg
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Contents: ff. 1r-87r: History of the foundation of the priory of Weihsanktpeter in Regensburg. Decoration: Inhabited initial in colours with hybrid creatures and pen-flourishing forming a three-sided border including foliate motifs, a green parakeet, and medallions with grotesques (f. 1r). P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century-3rd quarter of the 14th century
This 12th-century manuscript contains the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks) by Aimoin of Fleury (b. c. 960, d. c. 1010), a French chronicler and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. It is thought to have been produced for Henri I (b. 1127, d. 1181), Count of Champagne, since it was ...
This manuscript contains a copy of the Cosmographia, written by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (b. 1405, d. 1464), who became Pope Pius II in 1458. Contents: ff. 1r-183v: Pius II, Cosmographia. Decoration: 1 large white vine initial in colours and gold enclosing a portrait of Pope Pius II in ...