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Manuscript of the complete works of Catullus, written in the Italic bookhand of Lodovico Regio of Imola.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.2
Scope and Contents
The text embodies a considerable number of readings apparently otherwise unknown; some of these are clearly errors, others if emendations display great metrical ignorance, but some are of superior quality and of these a few are normally ascribed to scholars of the 16th century and later. See ‘Scriptorium’, volume 37, pages 122-125.The title page is surrounded by a border of cherubs, vases, etc., in red, purple, green, and gold, on a red ground; a coat of arms at the foot,...
Dates:
1495.
Manuscript of the 'Epistolae ex Ponto' by Ovid, written in Italy.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.5
Scope and Contents
i.4-5 and iv.14-15 are not separated. At the end occur the verses '(E)xpers naso modi' etc., printed from Breslau MS. R.109 folio 349, in 'Catalogus codicum latinorum classicorum qui in Bibliotheca Vrbica Wratislaviensi adservantur', page 76.Subscription, folio 74 verso: 'Explicit liber ouidij de po(n)to. Mcccclxxº [x]iiiº decimo KL.April.'Space has been left for initials, which have not been added. Written in a competent humanistic bookhand. There are a few later...
Dates:
1470.
Manuscript of the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ by Bede, probably from Exeter Cathedral.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.1
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue (folio 1) and five books (folios 2, 23, 39 verso , 60, 79), each with a list of chapters at the beginning. The text is of the c-type and of the D branch of that (see ‘Opera Historica’, volume 1, pages xciii-xcv, civ-cix, and ‘Ecclesiastical History of the English People’, page 1).A few headings are in red. Initials for the preface and books are in red and blue with red tracery, those for chapters are alternately blue and red with tracery of...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
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Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.
Manuscript of the 'Liber phisionomie' of Michael Scot.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.17
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The manuscript, which is of unknown provenance, has the usual title (with the false form `philosomie`) (page 1), preface to Frederick II (page 1), and three books (pages 2, 22, 34). The text is followed (page 49; on three of 8 originally blank pages) by a list of chapters in an 18th-century hand, which was also responsible for the pagination.At the end of the text (page 48) is the note `est Beltreamini de riuola`. On page 57 is a note, early 15th century, on the geography of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, burgh laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, mostly in Scots, written in the 3rd quarter of the 15th century. Sections (xxv)-(xxvii) are a slightly later addition.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.4.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in 4 books of 191 continuously numbered chapters (34, 74, 26, and 57 in each book respectively) with table at the beginning (folio 1). The end of chapter 6 to the beginning of chapter 14 is lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277.(ii) `Quoniam attachiamenta` in 61 chapters with table at the beginning (folio 60 verso). Chapters 11-24 are lost. ‘Acts of the Parliament of...
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, a few in Scots, mostly written by John Bannatyne in 1520, with some later additions.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.9
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Regiam Maiestatem` in four books of 209 continuously numbered chapters (34, 72, 34, and 69 in each book), with table at the beginning (folio 2). This is preceded (folio 1 verso) by a couplet beginning `Me legat antiquas qui vult proferre loquelas` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xxvi) and 11 verses beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen` (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of...
Dates:
14th century-16th century.
Manuscript of the ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, statutes, burgh and guild laws, ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, some in Scots, mostly written by James Monynet in 1488, with some later additions.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.6
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of sections (iii) and (v)-(vii) (folio vi).(ii) ‘Brevis ordo judiciarius,` maxims and procedures in 12 chapters, in a later hand (folio x verso).(iii) `Regiam Maiestatem,` in four books of respectively 35, 74, 35, and 68 chapters (folio 1). In addition to this numbering (in red) there is a continuous numbering of the chapters to ccxi. Prefixed are 11 lines beginning `Hoc trahit ad lumen antiqua...
Dates:
1248-15th 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
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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 of the 'Viaticum' of Constantinus Africanus, from the south of France, later in England.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the prologue and seven books, incipit `Quo]niam quidem ut in rethori[cis` (‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column 1898), with a full marginal gloss (incipit `Istud opus distinguitur in vii volumina`) and occasional interlinear glosses. At the end (folio 99) are notes, 14th century, on the treatment of hair-loss and on rapacious fish (this was originally the second leaf of a bifolium; of the first, probably blank, only a stub remains),...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Manuscript, of uncertain origin written in the 12th or 13th century, containing medical treatises.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.13
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Gariopontus, `Passionarius Galeni`, in seven books. The author`s name is not given; the title in the incipit is `liber Galieni ad Glaucum nepotem` (cf. British Library, Royal MS.12 E.XX, folio 33), in the explicit `liber Galieni Passionarius`. (Folio 1.)(ii) `Antidotarius particularis`, incipit `Aurea alexandrina antidotum facias ad reuma` (cf. ‘Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin’, column...
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Manuscript on botany, entitled `Manuel de botanique ou Principes pour connoitre les Plantes que la nature produit leurs Noms, Caracteres, Et Vertus. MDCCXXXVI’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.5.12
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Under each plant, there is a brief note about its habitat, but most of the entry concerns its medicinal uses. The text is followed (folio 215) by an appendix, indices of names in Latin and French, and an index of diseases. Folios 272-279 contain miscellaneous medical recipes, some of which have been written on loose sheets of paper and inserted.The inscription `J.B.M. Guidi scripsit anno 1757 et 1758` occurs on folio 271 verso, and the title-page (folio 1) bears his initials and...
Dates:
1757-1758.
Manuscript, possibly 11th century, of the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.16
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This manuscript was produced in Ireland and is an example of a pocket Gospel book. It was possibly written in the 11th century, based on the script. Schenkl has dated the work to the 9th century, and Borland has attributed it to the 13th century. The manuscript is written in an Insular minuscule script with 23 or 24 lines to a page. There are brief scribal marginal glosses related to the text throughout, although some of these have been lost due to cropping. There are...
Dates:
?11th century.
Manuscript, probably from Normandy, of the complete works of Horace.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.12
Scope and Contents
The manuscript consists of two originally separate parts: (i) containing 'Carmina' (folio 1), 'Epodi' (folio 41), and 'Carmen saeculare' (folio 50); and(ii) containing 'De arte poetica' (folio 51), 'Epistolae' (folio 58), and 'Sermones' (folio 81). It presents basically a Ψ text, most closely related to δ (Brit.Mus.Harl.MS.2725, 9th century) and π (Paris.lat.10310, 9th century), with some contamination from Ξ bringing it into occasional agreement with [?]...
Dates:
11th century-early 12th century.
Manuscript, probably of the 15th century, written in England, containing various works on canon law, including: the 'Casus decretalium' of Johannes Burgundus de Maioricis; a summary of the 'Decretales - Liber Sextus' of Pope Boniface VIII; the 'Apparatus ad Constitutiones Clementinas' possibly by Gulielmus de Monte Lauduno; and short extracts by other authors.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.17
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Manuscript written in England containing various works on canon law, including the 'Casus decretalium' of Johannes Burgundus de Maioricis; a summary of the 'Decretales - Liber Sextus' of Pope Boniface VIII; the 'Apparatus ad Constitutiones Clementinas' possibly by Gulielmus de Monte Lauduno, as well as short extracts by various other authors.The date of production of the manuscript is unclear. A 19th-century pencil inscription on the recto of folio i suggests that it is a work of...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscript, probably Scottish, of the 'Vitae Caesarum’ of Suetonius.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.11
Scope and Contents
The final lines, ‘pro certo habuisse’ etc., are lost.
Before the text is placed without heading Ausonius, `Caesares` (XXI Monosticha 6-41 in Karl Schenkl`s edition), which is found in other 15th-century manuscripts of Suetonius, and a list of chapters.
Ornamental initials in blue and red.
Marginalia throughout in the hand of Archibald Whitelaw, secretary to James III.
Dates:
Late 15th century
Manuscript, probably written by Giovan Marco Cinico, of the Latin translation by Francesco Griffolini (formerly attributed to Francesco Accolti) of the spurious letters of Diogenes and Phalaris.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.10
Scope and Contents
The volume is now confused and imperfect, but it is clear that originally there were two compilations: Diogenes with prefatory material (sections (i), (ii), (v), (vi)), and Phalaris with prefatory material (beginning lost, sections (iv), (iii)). The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Elegy dedicating the translation of Diogenes to Pius II, beginning `Ad uaticani praeclara palatia petri` (folio 1).(ii) Title of the translation of Diogenes (folio 3...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Manuscript thesis of Robert Louis Stevenson titled, 'The Pandects', presented in accordance to custom on his admission to the Faculty of Advocates.
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Identifier: F.R.107
Dates:
1875.
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.
Manuscript, written by Antonio di Mario, of Jerome’s translation of ‘Chronici Canones’ by Eusebius, with the continuation by Prosper.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.5
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Subscription on folio 75 verso; ‘Ego Antonius Marii filius et Florentinus civis absolvi V. Idus Mai MCCCCXXVI quo tenpore ducalis illustrisque dominatio Venetorum simul cu(m) nostra repu(bli)ca Florentina colligatione facta pro earu(m) libertate tuenda adversus tyran(n)idem
Duce(m) Mediolanense(m) qui an(n)is iam elapsis iniquissime et iniuste contra dictam nostra(m) re(m) p(ublic)am Flo(renti)na(m) bellu(m) fecerat viriliter atq(ue)fortiter dimicabant Valeas qui legas’.
Dates:
1426.
Manuscript, written by Johannes Fanconus (?), of the ‘Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri ix’ by Valerius Maximus, with the commentary of Dionigi di San Sepolcro, preceded by a list of chapters.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.7
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Subscription on folio 154: ‘Explicit excellens liber Egregii autoris Valerii maximi Romani sc(ri)ptus ad postulationem fr(atr)is martini de caranazio sacre pagi(n)e p(ro)fessoris Immeriti Oord(in)is [sic] heremitar(um) Scanti [sic] augustini doctoris lucidissini ticini sepulti. Eiusdem ord(in)is fuit h(uius) libri expositor vocat(us) frater dyonisi(us) de burgo s(an)c(t)i sepulcri sacre pagi(n)e celeb(er)rim(us) p(ro)fessor et episcopus bene merit(us) Nichopole(n)sis civitat(is). Scriptus...
Dates:
1393.
Manuscript, written in England in the late 11th century, containing the satires of Persius, the fables of Avianus, and miscellaneous poetry and other works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.12
Scope and Contents
Most of the leaves are palimpsest, but the underwriting is illegible; it may be from the same manuscripts as that in Adv.MS.18.7.8 (pricking from the original manuscript survives on folios 3+6, 9, 16+23, 17+22, 26+29, 34+35, in one or both edges of the text-frame; the width of the ruled area was 172 millimetres in folios 3+6, 17+22, 26+29, 192 millimetres in folio 9.). See 'Notice et extraits d'un manuscrit d' Edinbourg', 33 and what follows.The contents of the manuscript are as...
Dates:
Late 11th century.
Manuscript, written in Italy, containing the six plays of Terence.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:`Andria` (folio 1);`Eunuchus` (folio 22);`Heauton Timoroumenos` (folio 44 verso);`Adelphoe` (folio 65 verso);`Hecyra` (folio 86);`Phormio` (folio 105);with didascalia for `Eunuchus`, `Adelphoe`, and `Hecyra`; before the prologue to the `Andria` stands the short poem on Terence, ‘Anthologia Latina’ 487 c. The text belongs to the Calliopian...
Dates:
1438.
Manuscript, written in Italy in the 15th century, of works by or attributed to Lactantius.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.4
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `De ira Dei` (folio 1). The text is similar to that printed in, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume vii, 79-148, but contains 24 chapters (cf. ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume vii, 146, note). There are several lacunae which suggest that the scribe may have copied a damaged exemplar: part of chapters 16 and 17 is missing (folio 16 recto) and blank spaces have been left for two passages in chapter 18...
Dates:
15th century.