Language: Hebrew Genesis, with punctuation and interlinear French translation by Jacques d'Auzoles Lapeyre (author). Bereshit. בראשית Colophon: achevee par Jacques D'Auzolles LapeyreLan de grace 1622. Le XVIII. Decembre. (Fol 152r) Genesis, with punctuation and interlinear French translatio...
A Latin formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire
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Contents: ff. 1r-66v, 68r-100v: A formulary with indentures on various legal subjects for persons in Oxfordshire. The formulary is mostly written in Latin, but various indentures in English were added at the end. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 1*verso-3*recto: Practice inden...
Contents: ff. 1r-42v: ‘Incipit material de beneficijs’. ff. 43r-74r: ‘De causis ob quas clerici religiossi circa bona ecclesiastica .l. peccant .l. tur restutere’. ff. 75r-111v: ‘Materia de Donatione’. ff. 112r-163r: ‘Sequitur materia de Vectigalibus’. The manuscript contains a later addi...
Chansons, for 3 voices (with one exception), in parts, with illuminated initials and occasionally an illuminated border in which occur the letters F F {[Françoise de Foix.]} (Françoise, to whom several of the verses are addressed), and a monogram, probably intended for M A M I E. The only compose...
Contents: ff. 1r-411r: Haly Abenragel [Abū l-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Abī l-Rijāl al-Shaybani], De Judiciis Astrorum. Decoration: 2 large blue and gold puzzle initial with red penwork decoration (ff. 1r, 97v). 3 small gold initial in a red frame (ff. 130r, 288r, 346r). 1 large blue and red puzzle initi...
Contents: ff. 3r-86v: Sextus Propertius [here referred to as ‘Aurelius Propertius Nauta’], Monobiblos; ending with the colophon: 'Hoc tibi sume pater transcriptum Paule volumen / Quod tibi perpetuum nostri fore pignus amoris / Obsecro materia quando sunt vatis erotes / [...] Amor amonia vincit...
An English miscellany including a treatise on oaths; theological questions; a catechism
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Contents: ff. 1r-3v: Miscellaneous notes and sayings in English or Latin. ff. 4r-33v: ‘A Briefe Treatise of Oathes exacted by Ordinances and Ecclesiastical Judges to answer generally to all such articles or Interrogatories as pleaseth them to propound and of their forced and constrayned oathe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Contents: ff. 1r-121v: Augustine, De musica (On Music). ff. 122r-127v: Horace, poems. ff. 127v-133v: Unidentified text on classical poetry. Possibly the hand of Leonardo Giustiniani of Venice, according to Albinia de la Mare (see Watson 1979). ff. 3v and 133v are blank. Decoration: White v...
Contents: ff. 1r-70v: A processional with musical notation. Decoration: A small initial in gold with red and blue frame and half-border, partially gilded (f. 53v). Numerous initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
This manuscript consists of the Chronicon (Chronicle),attributed to 'Fredegarius Scholasticus' in the 16th century; however, it is a compilation of several chronicles written by different 7th-century writers. The chronicleis composed of 4 books, which include the Liber generationis (Book of gene...