ff. 1-26v: Rule of St Benedict ff. 1-2: Prologue. Inc. “Asculta o fili praecepta magistri tui” ff. 2-3: List of chapters. ff. 3-26v: Text. Inc. “Monachorum quattuor genera.” Expl. “…culmina deo protegente pervenies” (PL 66, 215-930) ff. 27-28v: “Bona lectio et sub compendio ad monachos” Inc. Co...
Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, imperfect; followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history
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Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 1r-68v), ending imperfectly in 7.9 (at domi fortisque); followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69r-73v), starting imperfectly (at lxx. et genuit Thara et vixit priusquam genuit Thara annos cc et xxiiii). Dec...
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Caelesti Hierarchia, De Mystica Theologia, and Epistolae, translated into Latin, preceded by a table of contents
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Works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the Latin translation by Ambroggio Traversari. ff. 1r-2v: Table of contents. ff. 3r-31r: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Caelesti Hierarchia. ff. 31v-67v: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia. ff. 67v-117r: Pseudo-Dionys...
Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae; Aelius Donatus, Ars grammatica; treatises on rhetoric and grammar.
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This manuscript contains a collection of texts about grammar, as well as several anonymous texts and verses on theological topics added towards the end. The main text is the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) by Priscian (fl. 500), followed by a part of the Ars grammatica (The Art...
Nicolas Floyd of Winchester College, Ραψῳδία βιβλικὰ. Passages from the Bible converted into Greek and Latin parallel verses (ff 3r-77r). Followed (f 78r) by a hymn to God in the style of Anacreon. Preceded (ff 1r-2v) by a letter of dedication to John Harris, D.D., warden of Winchester College, a...
Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (ff. 2r-237v); followed without break (ff. 237v-239v) by the preface. Decoration: Probably by ‘Benedictus’, a follower of Jacopo da Fabriano, who decorated London, V&A Museum, L.935-1951, and who signed the illumination of Vatican, Barb. Lat. 180, dated 1464, ...
Homilies of St John Chrysostom on selected Pauline Epistles
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St John Chrysostom: ff 1r-162r, Homiliae in epistulam I ad Corinthios (TLG 2062.156; PG 61.9; CPG 4428). ff 162v-250r, Homiliae in epistulam II ad Corinthios (TLG 2062.157; PG 61.381; CPG 4429). ff 250v-279r In epistulam ad Galatas commentarius (TLG 2062.158; PG 61.611; CPG 4430). ff 279v-31...
Pope Gregory I, Homiliae in Ezecheliem; Excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675)
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This manuscript consists of the Homiliae in Ezecheliem (Homilies on Ezekiel), in two books, written by Pope Gregory I (b. c 540, d. 604), followed by an excerpt from the Creed of the 11th Council of Toledo (675) (ff. 168v-169v). It has been copied in the last quarter of the 11th century. The par...
Claudian, Carmina Maiora; in the order: In Rufinum, with the preface to Book II and the end (ff. 3r-17v); De Bello Gildonico (ff. 17v-25v); De Bello Getico (ff. 25v-35v); Gigantomachia (ff. 36r-37v); De Consulatu Stilichonis (ff. 38r-57r); In Eutropium (ff. 57r-75r); Fescennina de Nuptiis Honori...