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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10459
Title:: Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains two works that were written separately in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century and incorrectly bound together at some point before the 15th century. The first text (ff. 1r-105r, 131r-165v) is De Institutione Laicali (On the Instruction of the Laity) by Jonas of Orlé...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10461
Title:: Kitāb al-filāḥah كتاب الفلاحة Ibn al-ʻAwwām, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ابن العوام، يحيى بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Comprehensive treatise on agriculture by the Andalusian agronomist Abū Zakariyā Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ishbīlī (أبو زكريا يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد الإشبيلي, fl. late 12th century?), known as Ibn al-ʻAwwām (ابن العوام). The copy was made by an anonymous Spanish Arabist, reputedly from Madri...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+205+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10546
Title:: Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:: This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, 'Carol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 830-c 840
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 10767
Title:: Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:: This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11034
Title:: Arator, Historia apostolica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus; Modoin of Autun, Ecloga; Bede, Versus de die iudicii
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r: Practice verse composition (?). f. 2r: Bede, Versus de die iudicii (Clavis Patrum Latinorum 1370), lines 128–55, ‘Nox ubi nulla rapit splendorem lucis amoenę’. f. 2v: Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151), ‘Ad boreae partes arctoi vertuntur et anguis’. Notation over t...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 10th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11283
Title:: Bestiary
Scope & Content:: This manuscript is the earliest extant manuscript of a type of bestiaries known as 'Clark's Second-Family' that brings in new materials by following a system of classification into beasts, birds and reptiles. This taxonomy is supported by illustrations. Contents: ff. 1r-41r: A Bestiary, begin...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11292
Title:: PSALTERIUM; Æthiopice. Codex membranaccus, sec. fortassis xiv. Duodecimo. [11,292.]
Scope & Content:: Bible: Psalterium, cum Canticis.: Æthiopice. Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Geez
Date Range:: c 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11293
Title:: CODEX Armenicus. Membranaceus, sec. fortassis xiv. In Quarto minori. [11,293.]
Scope & Content:: Æthiopic MSS:.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11390
Title:: Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme
Scope & Content:: The manuscript features one of the eleven extant copies of the Middle Dutch Der naturen bloeme (The Flower of Nature): a natural encyclopedia and bestiary in verse, divided into thirteen books. Der naturen bloeme was written around 1270 by the Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant (b. c. 1200, d. c. 1...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, Middle
Date Range:: c 1300 - c 1325
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11414
Title:: Missal, use of Sarum
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 2r-3v: Added texts including verses from St John's Gospel, chapter 19, on the Passion, followed by the prayer, 'Deus qui manus tuas et pedes tuos..' and readings with musical notation; ff. 4r-309v: Missal of the use of Sarum or Sarum-Lincoln, with a calendar (ff. 4r-9v), and add...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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