This manuscript from the Carthusian monastery St Michaelsberg in Mainz contains a short text with dietary guidelines and a popular herbal, describing the medicinal purposes of plants, that was composed by Odo von Meung (fl. c. 1070), a physician and poet, but sometimes was spuriously attributed ...
A collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts from various sources including Avicenna, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Hali-Abbas, Egidius and Raymundus Lullus (Ramon Llull). The manuscript was written in 1519 by the scribe Donnchadh Ó Eichthighern (Donough O'Ahiarn), whose hand also appears in A...
Osbern, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury, composed this version of the Vita Sancti Dunstani (Life of St Dunstan) between c.1089 and c.1093. This is thought to be the earliest of some twenty manuscripts of the text, and it may have been the original Christ Church copy (Alexander, Romanesque...
Contents: f. 1r: Notated antiphon ‘Audite o lucis filie’ from the Epithalamium in the Speculum Virginum; musical notation: neumes on 4-line staves. ff. 1v-129v: Conrad of Hirsau (?), Speculum virginum; this work is in the form of a dialogue between the teacher, a Benedictine named Peregrinus, ...
Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis)
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Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis). All of the works now attributed to Severianus are explicitly ascribed to John Chrysostom in the manuscript, with the exception of In pretiosam et vivificam crucem (ff 47r-55v), which is imperfect at the beginning.
St John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum homiliae (TLG 2062.152; PG 57.15; CPG 4424). Imperfect with several lacunae and inc. [ἐπιμε]λοῦμαι. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐστιν (59.3042).
This manuscript comprises a single detached leaf from the opening of a large illuminated Gradual, made in Ghent between 1480 and 1483. The Gradual was probably commissioned by Margaret of York (b. 1446, d. 1503), duchess of Burgundy, whose arms (formulated after her marriage in 1468 to Charles t...
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae (imperfect)
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This manuscript contains two fragmentary Latin copies of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. Contents: ff. 1r-10v: First fragment of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia regum Britanniae, contai...