Juvencus, Evangelia; Aldhelm, Enigmata (imperfect); Bede, De arte metrica (extract, chapter 25); Martin the Irishman, Scholica graecarum glossarum (imperfect)
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Contents: ff. 2r-57r: Juvencus (fl. c. 330), Evangelia (Gospels). ff. 59v-73v: Aldhelm (d. 709), bishop of Sherborne, Enigmata (Riddles), imperfect. f. 73v: An extract from Bede the Venerable (b. c. 673, d. 735), De arte metrica (On the Metrical Art), chapter 25. ff. 74v-83v: Martin the Iri...
Juvenal, Saturae, with interlinear and marginal glosses
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This manuscript consists of Juvenal's Saturae (Satires) with interlinear and marginal glosses (ff. 3r-59v), written in the 1st half of the 10th century in Central France. This volume also includes two flyleaves (ff. 1-2) from another manuscript probably written in Fleury in the last quarter of...
Sedulius, Carmen Paschale and other poems; Two acrostics poems in praise of Sedulius; Bede, De Temporum Ratione; A collection of Latin verses and short prose texts; Persius, Saturae; Sibylline verses; Life of Persius; Pseudo-Cornutus, Commentary on Persius; Lupus of Ferrières, Quid sit Ceroma?; Symposius, Enigmata; Boniface IV, Enigmata de Virtutibus et Vitiis. Musical settings among the collection of extracts from Persius, Bede, etc.
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A composite manuscript of three separate sections not bound together before the 17th century: Contents: ff. 1r-35v: Poems of Sedulius and in praise of Sedulius. ff. 36r-199v: A miscellany of 60 short tracts, in a wide variety of disciplines. Musical settings of the following passages, express...
Contents: ff. 2v–3r: Greek numbers and alphabets. ff. 5r–70v: Ælfric, Grammar, ‘Incipit praefatio huius liber. Ego Ælfricus ut minus sapiens has excerptiones … leoðcræfte’ (ends imperfectly). Old English glosses are written interlinear above Latin phrases. f. 71r: Remainder of the text copied...
Dossier of Texts Pertaining to the Cult of St Swithun, including Lantfred's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni and Wulfstan Cantor's Narratio Metrica de Sancto Swithuno
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This manuscript contains a dossier of liturgical material pertaining to St Swithun, with Latin and Old English glosses. This includes the earliest copies of Lantfred of Fleury's Translatio et Miraculi Sancti Swithuni, an acrostic hymn in honour of St Swithun, Wulfstan Cantor's letters to Bishop ...
This manuscript contains a brief biographical notice of Statius and Statius' Thebais. Decoration: gold initials (oxidized to green) of varying sizes and rubrics throughout. Syntactic marks or glosses using a system of dots and dashes have been used.
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Almanac, including a calendar and astronomical information
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An almanac, including an astronomical calendar in pictorial form, for 1420, with miscellaneous additions. A similar almanac, dated 1412, is now Harley MS 2332. Contents: f. 1v: Added 15th-century meteorological notes from Christmas to Twelfth Night, in a year in which Christmas fell on Sunda...
Book of expenses of Princess Mary, with an inventory of her jewels; catalogue of printed books in the Royal Library
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This manuscript contains a record of the household expenses of Princess Mary, later Mary I (r. 1553-1558), Queen of England, for the period 1536-1544. The accounts feature marginal notes and corrections written in Mary's hand, and her signature inscribed at the end of each month for the first ...
An atlas of England and Wales, made by Christopher Saxton (1542x4–1610/11), map maker, under the patronage of Thomas Seckford (1515/16–1587), lawyer and administrator. Owned by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/21-1598), royal minister, whose notes and annotations are found throughout. It ...
