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Genesis

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1142/1
Title:: Collection of Manuscripts (Recent Additions), Incunabula and Rare Books at the Monastery of St. Saviour in Jerusalem (Biblioteca generale di Terra Sancta)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains the following two series: EAP1142/1/1: Manuscripts [14th century-20th century]EAP1142/1/2: Incunabula [1471-1500].
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, Armenian, Catalan, Coptic, English, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Samaritan Aramaic, Slovenian, Spanish, and Syriac
Date Range:: 14th century-20th century
Extent:: 106018 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho B X
Title:: Collection of fragmentary works in Old English, including Ælfric of Eynsham's Hexameron, saints' Lives and homilies, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gregory the Great's Regula pastoralis
Scope & Content:: Cotton MS Otho B X was badly damaged in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731, and only fragments of around 53 of its leaves now remain. Following extensive restoration work undertaken at the British Museum by Sir Frederic Madden (b. 1801, d. 1873) and his assistant N. E. S. A. Hamilton, the fragmen...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old
Date Range:: Middle of the 10th century-Middle of the 11th century
Extent:: 1 volume