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131. Add MS 8873

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Title:
Collectio Britannica
Scope & Content:
The only witness of a canonical collection commonly called the Collectio Britannica (The British Collection). This collection originated in France (perhaps in Chartres), and was a reworking of a previous collection. Historical excerpts contained in this manuscript suggest that the manuscript i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

132. Add MS 8877

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Title:
Household roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke
Scope & Content:
The household roll of Eleanor de Montfort (b. 1215, d. 1275), Countess of Leicester and Pembroke, containing a set of financial accounts produced in her household for the year 1265. Eleanor de Montfort was the wife of Simon de Montfort (b. c. 1208, d. 1265), Earl of Leicester, and the sister of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1265
Extent:
1 roll

133. Add MS 9046

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Title:
Psalter in Tironian notes
Scope & Content:
This 9th-century manuscript is one of a few early medieval manuscripts that contain a Psalter written entirely in Tironian notes. This is a shorthand that was attributed to Tiro (b. 94, d. 4 BC), a slave of Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC), that consisted of 4000 signs in its medieval variant. The manu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

134. Add MS 10037

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Title:
Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

135. Add MS 10084

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Title:
Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexandrinum; Bellum Africanum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-60r: Gaius Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC, d. 44 BC), Bellum Gallicum (The War in Gaul), beginning: ‘[G]allia est omnia divisa in partes tres’. ff. 60r-94r: Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (The Civil War), beginning: ‘Litteris C[aii] Cesaris a Fabio consulibus redditis’. ff. 94r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

136. Add MS 10445

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Title:
A collection of compositions for strings, as well as melodies, and instrumental arrangements of songs and ballets
Scope & Content:
ff. 1, 13b, 26. Twenty-five pieces, of which all except the first are taken from the 'Royall Consort' by 'William Lawes' (conf. Add MS 31433, etc.); 2nd half of the 17th century. They consist of Courantes, Sarabands, Airs, etc., written for 3 instruments. 1st and 2nd trebles and 'Breaking Base' ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

137. Add MS 10459

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Title:
Jonas of Orléans, De Institutione Laicali; Epistola Concilii Aquisgranensis ad Pippinum Regem Directa
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two works that were written separately in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century and incorrectly bound together at some point before the 15th century. The first text (ff. 1r-105r, 131r-165v) is De Institutione Laicali (On the Instruction of the Laity) by Jonas of Orlé...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

138. Add MS 10546

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Title:
Bible (The 'Moutier-Grandval Bible')
Scope & Content:
This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, 'Carol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 830-c 840
Extent:

Parchment codex

139. Add MS 10767

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Title:
Caterina Vigri, Le sette armi spirituali, and other devotional works
Scope & Content:
This is a composite manuscript, made up of three parts: Part 1, ff. 1-57 (with historic foliation in ink in the lower margin of the rectos, ff. 354-410); Part 2, ff. 59-100; Part 3, ff. 101-136. Part 1 contains Le sette armi spirituali (The Seven Spiritual Weapons), a visionary work written by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

140. Add MS 11034

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Title:
Arator, Historia apostolica; Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus; Modoin of Autun, Ecloga; Bede, Versus de die iudicii
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r: Practice verse composition (?). f. 2r: Bede, Versus de die iudicii (Clavis Patrum Latinorum 1370), lines 128–55, ‘Nox ubi nulla rapit splendorem lucis amoenę’. f. 2v: Pseudo-Priscian, Carmen de sideribus (SK 151), ‘Ad boreae partes arctoi vertuntur et anguis’. Notation over t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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