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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50483K
Title:: Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:: This leaf once belonged to one of the earliest known copies of the prose version of De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of Sherborne. This fra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:: 1 leaf

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52359
Title:: Breviary, Use of Sarum (the 'Penwortham Breviary')
Scope & Content:: A Sarum Breviary with musical notation. Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Temporale (includes liturgies in honour of Thomas Becket, e.g., ff. 52r-v); ff. 233r-238v: Calendar; ff. 239r-283r: Psalter; ff. 283r-284v: Litany, not of Sarum Use, followed by short prayers and benedictions; ff. 285r-35...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1300-1319
Extent:: A parchment codex, 501 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 52619
Title:
Scope & Content:: SUPPLEMENTARY MODERN LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. III. Poetical Notebook of Philip Arthur Larkin; 5 Oct. 1944-10 Mar. 1950. Autograph (ff. iii, 45, 46, 48b typewritten) drafts and fair copies of some eighty-five poems and fragments, of which five, on ff. 1, 2b-13, were first collected in The North...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Oct 1944-10 Mar 1950
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 53777
Title:
Scope & Content:: SULLIVAN MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. I. 'Patience'; 1881. Autograph full score, in ink. First performed at the Opera Comique, 23 April 1881. ff. i+201. Original pencil pagination on rectos, odd numbers only. 340 x 250mm.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54324
Title:: Three bifolia of polyphonic music
Scope & Content:: POLYPHONIC MUSIC: three bifolia of polyphonic music, being fragments from a lost manuscript; mid-late 15th cent. Latin text. The fragments contain unique material, including works by Dunstable and Plummer. Five line staves. Numbers of stave to page as follows: 12 (ff. 1, 5); 11 (ff. 1v-2, 3v-4, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: Middle of the 15th century-Late 15th century
Extent:: 3 bifolia