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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 11983
Title:: Seneca the Younger, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis or Ludus de Morte Claudii, Proverbia, De Beneficiis; Publilius Syrus, Proverbia Senecae Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti; Ausonius, Versus de Duodecim Caesarum, Tetrasticha; Epitaphium Senecae; anonymous verses in praise of England; Marbod of Rennes, De Ornamentis Verborum; Hermes Trismegistus, Asclepius
Scope & Content:: This manuscript from c. 1100 contains a collection of works by and related to Seneca the Younger (b. 4 BC, d. 65AD), together with those by Ausonius (b. c. 310, d. 395) and Marbod of Rennes (b. c. 1035, d. 1123). Contents: ff. 4r-21v: Seneca, De Clementia (On Mercy), beginning: ‘Scribere de cl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1075-c 1125
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12042
Title:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:: Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-32v: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 32v-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun (or 'Jehan Chopinel'), composed between 1269 and 1278, begins with the rubric, 'Encor des co[m]pla...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 166 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187
Title:: Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر and three other short medical texts
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The encyclopaedia is accompanied by three other short medical texts. The manuscript was copied in 183...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: Codex; ff. vi+330+viii

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 3v-324v
Title:: Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب Anṭākī, Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar أنطاكي، داوود بن عمر
Scope & Content:: A copy of the medical encyclopaedia Tadhkirat ūlī al-albāb wa-al-jāmi‘ lil-‘ajb al-‘ujāb (تذكرة أولي الألباب والجامع للعجب للعجاب) by Dāwūd al-Ḍarīr ibn ‘Umar al-Anṭākī (داوود الضرير بن عمر الأنطاكي; d. 1599). The title page to the text (f. 3r, line 5) calls the author al-Qaṣīr (القصير, 'the sho...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 3v-324v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 325r-326r
Title:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods
Scope & Content:: Anonymous notes on the medical properties of foods drawn from various medical books (من بعض كتب الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon to item four, f. 330, lines 9-13). Begins (f. 325r, lines 2-5): الحلو حار إلا أنه ليس يقوى الحرارة...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 325r-326r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 326r-327v
Title:: Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt كتاب البثور في علامات الموت Hippocrates بقراط
Scope & Content:: The Kitāb al-buthūr fī ‘alāmāt al-mawt (كتاب البثور في علامات الموت) is the Arabic version of a pseudo-Hippocratic text known as the Ἱπποκράτους νοήματά τε καὶ σημειώσεις περὶ ζωῆς καὶ θανάτου. A Latin version made from the Arabic exists, and is known variously as the Secreta Hippocratis due to ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 326r-327v

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12187, ff 327v-330r
Title:: Extracts from the Canon [of Medicine] نقل من القانون Avicenna ابن سينا
Scope & Content:: A collection of extracts from Avicenna's (ابن سينا, Ibn Sīnā; 980-1037) Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطب). The manuscript was copied in 1838, in Cairo, by the scribe Ayyūb of Nazareth (see colophon, f. 330, lines 9-13, transcribed below). Begins (f. 327v, lines 2-5): مرهم نافع للخنازير جيد ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: ff. 327v-330r

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12219
Title:: Incidental music to Macbeth, which has been attributed to John Eccles
Scope & Content:: Incidental music to Macbeth, with symphonies and accompaniments for serpent and other instruments, in score, in the same hand as the Ode by John Eccles in Add MS 31456, and apparently autograph. In Add MS 29378, consisting almost entirely of works by Eccles, the composition of this music (ff. 57-...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (42 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12279
Title:: Bhāratayuddha
Scope & Content:: Bhāratayuddha. The beginning of the volume is Old Javanese text, each line followed by a word-for-word explanation in Modern Javanese. On f. 146r, a second section begins, ing andap punika pratelanipun ing lapal kimawon tanpa makna, and is Old Javanese only. A romanised Malay note inside ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 1 volume; 178 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 12321
Title:: Undang Wangsul Kutara Manawa Sastra, extracts from the Ramayana in Old Javanese and Javanese, and and eye-copy of the Old Javanese Cane charter
Scope & Content:: A: ff. 1r.-36r. Undang Wangsul KutaraManazva Sastra. The note on the MS saying this is ‘from a copy on palm leaves given to me [Crawford] in 1814 by the Raja of Blilling [Boleleng]’ actually belongs on Add. 12336 and the note on that MS belongs here. According to Jonker, 1885, p. 33, this is a s...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Javanese and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 1814
Extent:: 1 item

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