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13th-century manuscript containing the 'Decretum' of Gratian, with the gloss of Bartholomeus Brixiensis.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.2
Scope and Contents 13th-century canon law manuscript containing an incomplete text of the 'Decretum' of Gratian with the gloss of Bartholomeus Brixiensis, a correction of the gloss of Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke. The work has been dated to the 13th century by Borland, and to the 14th century by Dolezalek. The manuscript was probably written in Italy and illuminated in France or England. The main body of text is written in double columns of 50 lines, with glosses in two columns. Both the...
Dates: 13th century

Composite volume of 15th-century manuscripts of miscellaneous works by four hands bound together, with an incunable, in the 16th-century or earlier.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.8
Scope and Contents The collection has been in one volume since the 16th century at least. The contents are as follows:[(i) A printed book: Johannes de Hildesheim, ‘Liber de gestis ac translatione trium regum’, etc., ([Cologne], 1478) = National Library of Scotland Inc.43 (B.M.Cat. IB 4236) (folio 1)]. Folio 56 blank.(ii) Baebius Italicus (?), `Ilias latina` (‘Poetae latini minores’ ii.3; this manuscript is not included in the list given by P Vollmer in ‘Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen...
Dates: 15th century.

Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.12
Scope and Contents (i) Statius, 'Thebaid' (folio 1). There is a prose argument on folio v verso, and verse arguments to books ii-v, vii-ix, and xii. The text of this manuscript belongs to Boussard's group σ⁴ (Paris.lat.8280, Vatican Barb.lat.106, Vatican Pal.lat.1692, Florence Laur.pl.58.7 - all 13th century; and Milan Ambros.H.21 inf., 14th-15th century), as omitting x.104-105 and 112-117, having the interpolation before x.131, and having varying readings in the other test passages (x.62 'pudorem', s.1....
Dates: 12th century-13th century.

Early 14th-century manuscript containing the 'Decretals' of Pope Gregory IX; with a gloss by Bernard of Botone. Also included are short excerpts of works by Gratian and Raynald, Archbishop of Rheims.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.10.1.1
Scope and Contents The manuscript was produced in France and contains a complete copy of the 'Decretals', or 'Liber extra', of Pope Gregory IX. The volume also contains two short excerpts; the 'Repetitio X.3.26.18' of Raynald Archbishop of Rheims and a passage from the 'Decretals' of Gratian entitled 'Scribitur ii. regum xxi. capitulo'.The contents are as follows:‘Decretals’ of Pope Gregory IX. Folios 1-247r.Folio 247v was prepared with a ruled grid of guidelines for text...
Dates: Early 14th century.

Late 10th-century manuscript, produced in England, which contains a selection of the poetry of Coelius Sedulius, with glosses in Latin and Old English.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.7
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains prefatory matter (‘Hoc opus Sedulii` etc., J Huemer in ‘Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum’, x, page vii note; ‘Sedulius epistola ... utilitati`, Huemer, page xi; `istud sequens` etc., Huemer, page xxii; poem of Turcius Rufus Asterius, Huemer, page 307, and ‘Anthologia Latina’ 491; `Sedulius versificus` etc., Huemer, page viii note; `mos est poetarum` etc., Huemer, page xxii); the letter to Macedonicus; the preface of the `Carmen paschale`, called...
Dates: Late 10th century.

Manuscript of the translation by Jacobus Venetus of the 'Analytica Posteriora' by Aristotle, with contemporary and later gloss.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.6
Scope and Contents Subscription, folio 36 verso: 'Explicit liber posteriorum simul cum tota nova logica'.Calligraphic initials in red and blue with elaborate scrollwork. Sentence and paragraph marks in red or blue. Marginal ink drawings of geometrical shapes (folios 19 verso, 20 recto), a dog (folio 28 verso) and a besieged castle (folio 29 recto).On the inside top cover is written '14/[ ] a/-'; on folio i verso in an 18th-century hand 'Ce petit traité sur aristote Manuscrit et [sic] de...
Dates: 14th century.

Manuscript, written by Antonio Caballario, of the 'Eclogues' and 'Aeneid' of Virgil.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.14
Scope and Contents `Aeneid` i.1-45 are lost. There are verse arguments to `Aeneid` ii-xii (Pseudo-Ovid in ‘Anthologia Latina’, 1).Subscription to the `Eclogues`, folio 17 verso: `Explicit liber Bucolicorum Antonii filii S. Leonardi de bagnara Scriptus p(er) me Antoniu(m) Caballa(r)iu(m) 1467 die 28 Augusti`.Initials in red and purple or blue and purple to each `Eclogue`, to the arguments of `Aeneid` ii, iv-xii, and to `Aeneid` ii, v-xii. Initials infilled with a flower or with leaves,...
Dates: 1467.

Schoolbook, transcribed in the early 12th century, containing notes and glosses (in Latin and German) on authors studied in schools and other texts which could be used in teaching.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.10
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Juvenal, 'Satires': citations with commentary in alphabetical order of keyword, incipit 'Maior auaritie patuit'. (i.88). (Folio 1.)(ii) Lucan, 'Civil War': introduction and citations with and without commentary from books 1-6 and 9, incipit 'Lucanii sum(m)a utilitas e(st) i(n) topog(ra)phia'. (Folio 5 verso.)(iii) Philosophical notes, possibly connected to Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's 'Analytica...
Dates: Early 12th century.

'Tabula super bibliam': an early 15th-century glossed copy of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.2
Scope and Contents The text begins 'Ante fir. lux producitur' and the interlinear gloss '[fir]mamentum. quia deus appellat diem'. There are also interlinear capitals indicating to which parts of the chapter the verse refers. Rubrics at the beginning of each book give the number of chapters. The text is followed (folio 123) by mnemonic verses on the books of the Bible with the numbers of their chapters, beginning 'Pentateu genesis exitque levi'; explanatory verses (folio 123 verso) beginning 'Finit tractatus...
Dates: Early 15th century.