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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17155
Title:
Scope & Content:: MAR JACOB, bishop of Batnæ, Sermons; very imperfect. On vellum of thevithorviitheentury. Quarto. [17,155.] Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermons, hymns and prayers: in Syriac.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 6th century-7th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17157
Title:
Scope & Content:: MAR JACOB, ten Sermons (the first, second, and part of the third wanting). On vellum ; written at Edessa, in the year of the Greeks 876 (A.D. 565). Small Quarto. [17,157.] Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermons, hymns and prayers: in Syriac.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 565
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17169
Title:
Scope & Content:: LETTERS of John the monk; imperfect. On vellum; written in the year of the Greeks 892 (A.D. 581). Quarto. [17,169.] John, Monk: Letters, Sermons, etc. in Syriac.: Syriac.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 581
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17170
Title:
Scope & Content:: SERMONS, Exhortations and Letters of John the monk; imperfect. On vellum; written in the year of Hijra 158 (A.D. 774-5). Quarto. [17,170.] John, Monk: Letters, Sermons, etc. in Syriac.: Syriac.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 774-775
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17182
Title:: Egarātā marmiyātā d-ḥakímā parsāyā - ܐܕܪܬܐ ܡܪܡܝܬܐ ܕܚܟܝܡܐ ܦܪܣܝܐ
Scope & Content:: A codex of two Syriac texts copied at different times, both of which are imperfect. These are the first and second parts of the works of Aphrates, the contents of which are as follows: Text 1 ff. 2r-11v : An introduction to the works, followed by ܬܣܝܬܐ ܕܣܝܡܢܘܬܐ; ff. 11v-23r : ܬܚܘܝܬܐ ܕܚܘܒܐ; ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 474-512
Extent:: 2 texts, 175 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17193
Title:: Penqíṭā d-taḥwiyātā wa-d-kúnaše wa-d-egarātā - ܦܢܩܝܛܐ ܕܬܚܘܝܬܐ ܘܕܟܘܢܫܐ ܘܕܐܓܪܬܐ
Scope & Content:: A codex containing Syriac-language materials of various forms, the majority of which relate to theological and ecclesiastical matters. These include extracts from the Old and New Testaments, commentaries on Biblical passages, Church history, and correspondence between Church Fathers. Many of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Syriac, Classical
Date Range:: 8th century-9th century
Extent:: Codex, 99 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17259
Title:
Scope & Content:: HYMNS; very imperfect. On paper; of the xiiith or xivth century. Duodecimo. [17,259.] Liturgies Syriac: Various prayers and hymns.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13th century-14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17275
Title:: Vie des Saints, a French prose Legendary consisting of the lives of 154 saints
Scope & Content:: Contents: The Vie des Saints (Lives of the Saints), a Legendary partially taken from Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend). The translation is attributed to Jehan Beleth (or Jean Belet) (d. c. 1185), liturgist and theologian of Amiens and Paris: the preface to the table of rubric...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1325-1340
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17492
Title:: Anthology of Tudor courtly verse, mostly attributed to Sir Thomas Wyatt, with other poems by Henry Howard, Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Hoccleve (‘The Devonshire Manuscript’)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an anthology of early-modern Tudor courtly verse from the 1530s, which was compiled by three women who attended the royal court: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy and Lady Margaret Douglas. The majority of the verses recorded in the volume are attributed to the English politi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 17725
Title:: THE LITURGIES of S. Basil, S. Gregory, and S. Cyril, adapted to the use of the Coptic Church in Abyssinia. In Coptic and Arabic. Paper; XVIth cent. Quarto. [Add. 17,725.]
Scope & Content:: Liturgies and Martyrologies: Liturgies of SS. Basil, Gregory, and Cyril, adapted to the use of the Abyssinian Church: 16th cent. Liturgies Coptic: Liturgies for the Coptic Church in Abyssinia.: Copt. and Arab.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Coptic, and English
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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