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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19553
Title:: Isocrates Ad Nicolem de regno; Lucian, De calumnia
Scope & Content:: Contents: Works by Isocrates and Lucian translated by Johannes Boerius or Giovanni Battista Boerio (b., c. 1450, d. before 1530), astrologist and physician to Henry VII, for Prince Henry, the future Henry VIII: his dedication on f. 1r, 'Illustrissimo Principi Henrico Serenissimi Regis Anglorun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1505
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19660
Title:: THE PSALMS, with the Canticles, etc., as in the last manuscript. Ethiopic. Vellum; XVIth cent. Duodecimo. [Add. 19,660.]
Scope & Content:: Liturgies Æthiopic: Psalms, etc.: Æthiopic.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Geez
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19725
Title:: A collection of anonymous sermons; Martyrology and Kalendar; Pseudo-Bede, computistical extracts; Regulæ et Instructiones Sacerdotum; Gennadius of Marseille, De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus; Capitula Parisiensia; Liber de Gestis Sanctorum Patrum Miracula
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of pastoral texts compiled in the late 9th century. Contents: ff. 2r-4v: Unidentified sermons, beginning 'Cum igitur fere in omnibus paginis'. ff. 5r-30r: Martyrology (imperfect) and Kalendar, extracted from Usuard (d. 877), beginning 'celebraret in media...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19758
Title:: A TREATISE of music, "By Thomas Rauenscroft, Bacheler of Musick, and one of ye children of Poules." Paper; xviith cent. Small Quarto.
Scope & Content:: Thomas Ravenscroft, composer and editor: Treatise on music: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19896
Title:: Apocalypse Picture Book; Apocalypse (Revelation) with a preface by St Jerome and commentary
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-24v: Apocalypse Picture Book. Apocalypse (Revelation) with a preface of St Jerome and commentary: f. 25r: Prologus: Rubric: 'Incipit argumentum Apocalipsis Iohannis'. Beginning: 'Apocalipsis Iohannis tot habet sacramentum quot verba'. f. 25r-: Preface of St Jerome: Rubric:'...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 32 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19961
Title:: Cassiodorus-Epiphanius, Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita
Scope & Content:: This manuscript originates from the second half of the 9th century (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 99; Zangemeister, ‘Bericht’ (1876), p. 44). It may have been produced in the Southern Netherlands (Bischoff, Katalog (2004), p. 99; Ganz, ‘Review’) or France (Jacob, Die handschriftliche Überlieferun...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736
Title:: Two treatises on horsemanship
Scope & Content:: Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: ca 16th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+97+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 20736, ff 2v-96r
Title:: Treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills
Scope & Content:: A general treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills in the tradition of the so-called 'Treatise B' of the ʿAbbasid furūsīyah master Ibn Akhī Ḥizām (ابن أخي حزام, d. ca 864, see citation and note about the incipit of the latter, with identical wording to the present text, in Al-Sarraf, S...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: Ff. 2v-96r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21072
Title:: Census of St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a census of lands granted and leased to St Mary Magdalene’s Abbey, Cologne, a house of sisters of the Penitential Order of Mary Magdalene, an order established for former sex-workers. The entries are arranged by parish, each listing the property’s grantor, its extent, an...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 14th century-1st half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 21102
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

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