Walter of Chatillon, Alexandreis with commentaries.
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This manuscript isone of the many copies of the 12th-century Latin epic by Walter ofChatillon (d. 1180) retelling the history of Alexander the Great. It was a verypopular school text for education. This copypreserves a school commentary explaining both the form and the content of the poem includ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century
Select Epistles of St Jerome with his translation of Origen's homilies on Canticles.
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ff. 1-2v: Epistles of St Jerome (Epistles 35; 36). ff. 2v-2: Origen: Two Homilies on Canticles in the Latin translation of Jerome with his prologue to Pope Damasus (PG 13, 37-58; CPG 1432). ff. 7-77 Epistles of St Jerome (Epistles 62; 20; 15; 16; 18b; 18a; 21; 101; 102; 103;111; 110; 56; 105; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
last quarter of the 14th century - first quarter of the 15th century
Ascetical works by and attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux
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ff. 1-28: Pseudo Bernard (= John of Fruttuaria): De ordine morum vitae et morum institutione. Tit. Insipit tractatus sancti Bernardi de ordine vitae et morum insititutione. Inc. Hortatur quidem timidam mentis meae imperitiam. Expl. supplexque tu ora hoc modo. (PL 184, 561-584. Cf. also Wilmart (...
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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ff. 1-130: Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. (Inc. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolulpho Beda famulus Christi et presbyter.... Expl. ....sive etiam ad formam sensus et interpretations eorum superadicere curavi) breaks off without the register of Bede's works. ff. 130-131: Cuthber...
Bible with prologues, and Interpretations of Hebrew names
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Bible with prologues (ff. 2r-523r), and Interpretations of Hebrew names (ff. 524r-570v). Decoration: 79 large historiated initials (one more missing), in colours and gold, at the beginnings of biblical books. Large foliate initials, in colours and gold, at the beginnings of prologues, etc. Sma...
Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium
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Contents: ff. 1r-51r: Cornelius Nepos (b. c. 110 BC, d. c. 25 BC), Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum Gentium (Lives of Eminent Commanders), including the lives from Miltiades to Hannibal, beginning: 'Non dubito fore plerosque'. f. 51r: Æmilius Probus (fl. c. 379-395), verse dedication o...
L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder), Controversiae
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Contents: ff. 2r-126v: L. Annaeus Seneca Maior (Seneca the Elder) (b. 54 BC, d. c. 39 AD), Controversiae (Disputes), with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, beginning: 'Exigitis rem magis iocumdam'. [ff. 127r-129v are blank]. Decoration: 37 large and medium calligraphic initials in...