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1. Add MS 47672-47683

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HOLKHAM HALL MANUSCRIPTS.MSS. 47672-47683 formed part of the Library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Later acquisitions from the same source are Add. MSS. 49363-49371. On the MSS. in general see L. Dorez, Les Manuscrits à Peintures de la Bibliothèque de Lord Leicester à Holkham Hall, Norfolk, 1908; S. de Ricci, A Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, 1932; F. Wormald in Times Literary Supplement, 2 May 1952, p. 304; Brit. Mus. Qu...
Scope & Content:
Holkham Hall, Norfolk: MSS. in the library of the Earls of Leicester at: until 1952.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[800-1599]
Extent:
12 items

2. Add MS 47673

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Title:
Gospels (the 'Schuttern Gospels')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was made at the Benedictine abbey of Schuttern, by the deacon Liutharius and commissioned by Abbot Bertrich. It was probably copied from a deluxe exemplar from the abbey of Reichenau (see Léon Dorez, Evangéliaire exécuté à l'abbaye de Schuttern (1905), p. 298). Contents: ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
816-825
Extent:
A parchment codex.

3. Add MS 47683

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Title:
Detached leaf from a giant Bible
Scope & Content:
This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

4. Add MS 47682

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Title:
Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
Scope & Content:
A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1327-1335
Extent:

A parchment codex, 42 folios

5. Add MS 47676

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Scope & Content:
HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. V (formerly MS. 210). EXPOSITIO LEGUM ROMANARUM, a compilation of Roman and Visigothic law; South Italy, 1st quarter of the 11th cent. The compilation, which possibly originated in Italy in the 9th cent., uses Roman sources both pre- and post-Justinian, and Visigothic law-books...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 47672

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Title:
Bible ('The Bible of Antipope Clement VII')
Scope & Content:
This Bible in Latin ('Bible of Antipope Clement VII') is large and lavishly illuminated and was likely produced in Naples c. 1330. The manuscript apparently later belonged to the Antipope Clement VII (Robert of Geneva), elected 1378, d. 1394; his coat of arms appears 28 times within the manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:

Parchment codex

7. Add MS 47677

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. VI (formerly MS. 246). CHARTULARY OF THE AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY OF KENILWORTH, Co. Warw. (founded circ. 1125); 16th cent. (after 27 July 1514). Latin and occasionally French and English. Contains copies, mostly abbreviated, of royal, papal, episcopal and private charters, 12th cent....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 47678

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Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilinam, Pro Ligario, Pro rege Deiotaro, In Verrem
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This manuscript contains In Catilinam (The Speech against Catiline), Pro Ligario (The Speech in Defense of Ligarius), Pro rege Deiotaro (The Speech in Defense of King Deiotarius) and the second In Verrem II (The Second Speech Against Verres) by the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

9. Add MS 47674

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Title:
Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), with parallel Latin text
Scope & Content:
Psalms and Canticles (Rahlfs 1062), followed by the Athanasian Creed, with parallel Latin text throughout. The manuscript includes several additions, corrections and annotations by the Paduan grammarian Pietro da Montagnana: f. 1v: An excerpt from Nicholas of Lyra, title: 'Nicolaus de Lyra de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
c 1220-c 1230
Extent:

142 folios

10. Add MS 47680

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Title:
Pseudo-Aristotle, Secretum Secretorum, translated by Philip of Tripoli (Philippus Tripolitanus)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes a pseudo-Aristotelian Arabic treatise, known as the Secretum Secretorum, in the Latin translation by Philip of Tripoli, imperfect. The manuscripts was intended by Walter of Milemete (fl. 1326-73) as a companion volume to his own work, De nobilitatibus sapientiis et prud...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1326-1327
Extent:

76 folios.