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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 69v-74v
Title:: Poem on the assembly of King Anushirvan
Scope & Content:: Part of a work in Persian verse on the assembly held by Anushirvan, his questions to Yunan, and Yunan’s replies. Commissioned by John Malcolm who is described as above and additionally as "in whose time the wolf and the lamb drink water and dwell together." Completed in Bombay on 12 Zi ‘l-Qaʻd...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1809
Extent:: Ff. 69v-74v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24413, ff 77v-84r
Title:: On the names of the Zoroastrian days, months and festivals
Scope & Content:: A work on the Zoroastrian day and month names and on the festivals of Noruz, Mihragan and Tirgan, compiled for Major Malcolm from Pahlavi and Pazand sources by Dastur Edalji Darabji Sanjana. Annotations by Malcolm.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: Ff. 77v-84r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 24914
Title:: Bede, Super Parabolas Salomonis Allegorica Expositio; De Dei Judicie; St Jerome, In Ecclesiasten; Commentarius in Cantica Canticorum (12 homilies); Hildebert of Lavardin, Vita Beate Marie Egyptiace; Marbodius of Rennes, Vita Sancti Laurentii; De Adnuntiatione Beatae Mariae; Vita Metrica Sancti Friderici Episcopi Leodiensis; Frederick I of Schwarzenburg, Epistola ad Clerum Leodiensem; Rudolf of Saint-Trond, Carmen de Theoderico Trudonensi Abate; Haimo of Auxerre, Expositio super Cantica Canti...
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century theological miscellany was owned and may also have been produced by the Benedictine abbey of Sint-Truiden (St Trond), also known as St Trudo’s Abbey. The larger part of the manuscript is composed of biblical commentaries by Bede the Venerable (d. 673, d. 735), St Jerome (b. 347...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25014
Title:: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Epistola de obitu Bedae; Continuatio Bedae; Memoriae Sancte Andrae in Scotia; an excerpt from the prologue of the Propheciae Merlini
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-117r: Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People), preceded by the preface (ff. 3r-v), beginning: 'Incipit prefatio Bede presbiteri in libro ecclesiastice hystorie gentis anglorum. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolfuulfo Beda famulus Christ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25087
Title:: al-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ al-anfus wa-al-ajsād الإرشاد لمصالح الأنفس والأجساد Ibn Jumayʿ, Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn ابن جميع، هبة الله بن زين
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive guide to medicine by al-Muwaffiq Shams al-Riyāsah abū al-‘Ashā’ir Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn (الموفق شمس الرياسة أبو العشائر هبة الله بن زين; d. 1198) known as Ibn Jumay‘ (ابن جميع), personal physician to the sultan of Egypt and Syria Saladin (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193). The work is d...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 8 Rajab 951
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+179+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25312
Title:: Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apocalypse; Odo of Cambrai, De canonibus evangelorium; Table of consanguinity.
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-2v: Haimo of Halberstad, Preface to the Commentary on the Apocalypse, rubric: 'Incipit Epythoma succincte expositionis super librum apocalypsin', prologue: 'Legimus in ecclesiastica historia beatum Iohannem a Domiciano'. ff. 2v-133r: Haimo of Halberstad, Commentary on the Apo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 135 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 25434
Title:: Richard of Ireland (pseudonym), Les Prophecies de Merlin.
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains only Les Prophecies de Merlin (imperfect): a collection of historical and ecclesiastical prophecies (written c. 1274-1279) purportedly dictated by Merlin to 'Maistre Antoine', bishop of Wales, and other scribes. The work, however, also features narrative materials about M...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26667
Title:: Chronique Universelle
Scope & Content:: Contents: Chronique Universelle, a chronicle of universal history from the Creation to 1340, divided into 6 ages. Decoration: 7 full-page miniatures in colours with gold. Initials and line fillers in gold on red grounds. The subjects of the miniatures are: f. 1r: The Expulsion from Paradi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1480-1490
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 26760
Title:: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books 23 to 35)
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-187r: Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (Commentary on Job), books 23 to 35. Decoration: One large decorated initial 'P'(refacionem) with interlace, floriated motifs and zoomorphic elements, in a multi-coloured frame, with green, red, yellow and blue (f. 1r). Nine large decor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

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