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282. Add MS 14250
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14250
- Title:
- Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum; Plympton annals for the years 1066-1177
- Scope & Content:
- This is the only extant manuscript from the Augustinian priory of Saints Peter and Paul in Plympton. The manuscript contains a copy of the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) that Bede (d. 673, d. 735), a Benedictine monk of the monastery of Monk...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
283. Add MS 14252
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14252
- Title:
- Ranulf de Glanvill, Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Anglie; ‘Prester John’, Epistola Manueli Comneno Imperatori Graecorum; Hildebert of Lavardin, De Tribus Mortuis a Christo Suscitatis; a prose description of England based on Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum; Laws related to the Commune of London; genealogies
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript is the second volume of a collection of legal treatises, of which Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS lat. 155 is the first volume. Add MS 14252 mainly contains law texts related to England and the ‘Commune of London’: a corporation of London citizens which had been r...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
284. Add MS 14332
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14332
- Title:
- Four treatises on conic sections
- Scope & Content:
- A collection of four mathematical treatises on conic sections. The mansucript was completed on 26 December 1834 (see colophon to Item 4, fol. 193v, line 13).The final eight folios (ff. 194v-201v) contain diagrams omitted in their proper places in the texts. Contents: (1) Clavius, Christophorus ...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1834
- Extent:
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Codex; ff. v+201+v
285. Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14332, ff 2v-22r
- Title:
- al-Shakl al-thāmin min al-maqālah al-ūlá min kitāb al-maqāyīs الشكل الثامن من المقالة الأولى من كتاب المقاييس And four excerpts from Euclidis elementorum libri VI Christophorus Clavius كلاويوس الفرنجي
- Scope & Content:
- Proposition 8 from Book 1 of Gnomonices libri octo (Rome: Apud F. Zanettum, 1581, pp. 26-37) by Christophorus Clavius (Christoph Klau, كلاويوس, d. 1537 or 38; see fol. 3r, line 9), translated into Arabic by Mu‘tamad Khān (معتمد خان) Rustam Beg al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī ibn Qubād Beg, titled Dīyāna...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1834
- Extent:
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Ff. 2v-22r
286. Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14332, ff 22v-32v
- Title:
- Qawl lil-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Haytham fī shakl Banī Mūsá قول للحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم في شكل بني موسى Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan) ابن الهيثم ,الحسن بن الحسن
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; d. ca 1040) on a proposition from the prolegomena of the Banū Mūsá (بنو موسى, fl. 9th century) to the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC)....
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1834
- Extent:
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Ff. 22v-32v
287. Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14332, ff 32v-37v
- Title:
- Maqālah fī rasm al-qutū‘ al-thalāthah مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلثة Ibn Sinān, Ibrāhīm ابن سنان ,إبراهيم
- Scope & Content:
- Treatise by Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah (إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرّة, d. 946) on the three types of conic section: the hyperbola, parabola and ellipse. The diagrams are missing in the text and may be found on ff. 194v-201v. Begins (fol. 32v, lines 5-8): قال إبراهيم بن سنان هذه...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1834
- Extent:
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Ff. 32v-37v
288. Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14332, ff 38r-193v
- Title:
- Kitāb al-makhrūṭāt كتاب المخروطات Apollonius of Perga أبلونيوس
- Scope & Content:
- Arabic version of the Conics (Κωνικά; كتاب المخروطات) by Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). Originally in eight books, only Books 1 to 4 survive in the original Greek; Books 1 to 7 are preserved in Arabic, and are presented here in the edition/translation by Muḥyī al-Dīn Y...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Date Range:
- 26 Dec 1834
- Extent:
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Ff. 38r-193v
289. Add MS 14399
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14399
- Title:
- A collection of mostly English songs, as well as some lute music, cantatas and duets
- Scope & Content:
- passim. Songs for a treble voice, with a bass figured for harpsichord; except in no. 13, which is unaccompanied. Nos. 1-7 are in the hand of Matthew Lock. 1. 'Cupid once, when weary grown.' By Pelham Humfrey. [In , 1679.] f. 4b. 2. 'Cloris, qui domptetout le nionde.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 3. 'Hark, ...
- Collection Area:
- Music Collections
- Languages:
- English and French
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 volume
290. Add MS 14784
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 14784
- Title:
- St Augustine, De nuptiis et concupiscentia; St Augustine, De perfectione iustitiae hominis; St Augustine, De cathechizandis rudibus
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1r: A table of contents. f. 2r: Excerpt from St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430), Retractationes (Retractions) (Book 2, chapter 53), beginning: 'Scripsi duos libros ad illustrem virum Valerium comitem'. ff. 2r-3r: St Augustine, Epistola ad Volusianum (Epistle to Volusianus), beginning...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
