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421. Add MS 21102

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Title:
Ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān طبائع الحيوان Marwazī, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir مروزي، شرف الزمان طاهر
Scope & Content:
Treatise on zoology in five chapters (مقالات) by Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī (شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056-1125). Collation with the two other known copies of this text (British Library, Delhi Arabic 1949 and UCLA, MS Ar. 52) shows that this copy contains a portion of chapter one (ends...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxviii+209+iv

422. Add MS 21164

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Title:
Lexicon Tironianum
Scope & Content:
This 10th-century French manuscript contains a lexicon of Tironian notes: a shorthand attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The lexicon is preceded by a description on the shorthand by Isidore of Seville (b....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

1 volume

423. Add MS 21177

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Title:
Revenues and expenses of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
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This manuscript contains a list of rents owed to, and pensions paid by, St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, a religious order established for former sex-workers. The manuscript is composed of two parts (ff. 1-10 and ff. 11-18) that w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
German and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

424. Add MS 21914

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Title:
Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel, Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia; A glossary of Hebrew names (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the first third of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 100) was written at the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. The manuscript contains the Collectiones in Epistolas et Evangelia (Collections of Readings on the Epistles and Gospels), also known as the Expositio Libri ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

425. Add MS 21917

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Title:
Collection of saints' lives
Scope & Content:
This late 10th-century collection of saints’ lives originates from the Benedictine abbey of Luxeuil. It opens with the lives of the abbey’s first abbots: the life of St Columbanus (b. 543, d. 615) by Jonas of Bobbio (b. c. 600, d. 659); the life of St Eustace (b. c. 560, d. c. 629); and the life...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 10th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

426. Add MS 21952

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Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb uṣūl al-handasah wa-al-ḥisāb تحرير كتاب أصول الهندسة والحساب Euclid أقليدس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of the fundamental introduction to geometry, the Elements (Στοιχεῖα; الأصول) by the mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (Εὐκλείδης, أقليدس; fl. 300 BC), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). The te...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1048
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+153+iii+1+i+1+iii

427. Add MS 21984

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Title:
Cicero, De senectute, written by Ippolita Maria Sforza
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains De senectute, a Latin treatise on the subject of aging and death, by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC). The manuscript's colophon indicates that it was written by Ippolita Maria Sforza (b. 1445, d. 1488), daughter of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1458
Extent:
1 volume

428. Add MS 21986

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Title:
Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the Epistolae (Letters) of St Cyprian (b. c. 200, d. 258), bishop of Carthage. Contents: ff. 2r-97r: Cyprian of Carthage, Epistolae, beginning: ‘Incipiunt epistolae sancti Cipriani cartaginensis episcopi et martyrii’. [f. 97v is blank]. Decoration: One large initi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

429. Add MS 21995

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Title:
Gariopontus of Salerno, Passionarius Galeni
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript from France contains a copy of the medieval work Passionarius Galeni (Passionary of Galen), attributed to Claudius Galenus (b. 129, d. c. 200/c. 216), Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher; but actually written by Gariopontus (d. 1050), teacher at the School of Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

430. Add MS 22278

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Title:
St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah (books 11-18)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was produced in the 12th century, most likely at the Benedictine abbey of Liessies in Northern France, which owned the manuscript in the 12th century, possibly until around the mid-19th century. Contents: ff. 1r-122r: St Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah, Books 11-18. Decoration: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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