Digitised Content Platform: BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22377
Title:: Visperad
Scope & Content:: An incomplete copy of the Visperad with a verse by verse translation into Pahlavi. Note by former owner (f. 46v): "Hunc Librum Visperad (a Vendidad Sade desumptum) a sacerdote pauperi Feriduno emi - Surati Jan. 3 1822. Teste Tahemurathe Mobedo". Text begins on folio 2r.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Avestan and Pahlavi
Date Range:: Late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. iv+46+iv

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22398
Title:: Aileranus Sapiens, Canon evangeliorum; Ansegisus, Collection of capitularies; Edictum Pistense; Lex Salica; Capitulare legibus additum; Capitulare missorum generale; Alcuin, Disputatio Pippini cum Albino; Lex Ribuaria
Scope & Content:: This volume contains the collection of capitularies made in 827 by Ansegisus (d. c. 833), abbot of Fontenelles. The manuscript includes various other Carolingian legal texts and two short tracts on urine and prognostics. Contents: f. 2r: A fragment of a breviary to the Gospel of Matthew in a ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22493
Title:: Apocalypse, fragment with commentary by Berengaudus (ff. 1-4).
Scope & Content:: Contents: Apocalypse with commentary by Berengaudus (Fragment): f. 1r-4v: 'Et cum appervisset agnus sigillum secundum'. Ending: 'terre ac populi qui eis subicientur'. The manuscript includes the same gloss as in Additional 22493: f. 1v: 'Apertio primi signaculi ad ea que ante diluvium facta ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 4 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22562
Title:: Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum, written by Ava Trici and Gheeza Ysenoud
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a copy of the Vitae Patrum et Verbis Seniorum (Lives and Sayings of the Fathers), an encyclopaedic work comprised of hagiographical writings on the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers of early Christianity. According to the manuscript's colophon (f. 158v), this copy of the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1449
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22597
Title:: Tenor and treble parts and incidental music for a collection of compositions, by various composers.
Scope & Content:: (String Quintets, Motets and a Carol, in the same hand, Song in 'Don Quixote,' by R. Courteville, in a later hand.) ff. 3-15, 18-21b, 53 Tenor part of the following Anthems: — [late 16th cent.]. 1. 'The Lorde blesse vs.' 'R. White.' Attributed by Tudway, in Harley MS 7339, f. 34b, to Matthew Wh...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century-17th century
Extent:: 1 volume (53 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22719
Title:: Constantinus Africanus, Pantegni; Qusta Ibn Luqa, De Physicis Ligaturis
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the medical treatise Pantegni (The Book of Medical Arts) by Constantine the African (b. c. 1015, d. 1087), physician and monk at the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino. It also includes De Physicis Ligaturis (On Physical Ligatures), the Latin translation of a work by the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22754
Title:: Angela da Foligno, Lume amoroso divino
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the Lume amoroso divinio, a collection of texts written in Italian, recounting the visions and discourses of Angela da Foligno (b. c. 1248, d. 1309), an Umbrian lay penitent, mystic and visionary. Accounts of Angela's experiences were compiled by her confessor, who subse...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: c 1451-c 1457
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22820
Title:: Hrabanus Maurus, Commentary on Jeremiah
Scope & Content:: A colophon at the end of this manuscript states that this book was written by Herimann, a monk from the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, for its then abbot St Majolus (b. c. 906, d. 994). This leaves no doubt that the manuscript was written during his abbacy from 956 to 992, and makes it one of the e...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 23211
Title:: Fragment of Latin verses on the date of Easter, regnal lists, and fragment of the Old English Martyrology
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains one of the earliest fragments of the Old English martyrology and the earliest known West Saxon and East Saxon royal geneaologies. These fragments survive in two folios, apparently written by the same scribe, which were cut down and formerly used as pastedowns in an early...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of 9th century
Extent:: 1 parchment codex

Search