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15th-century manuscript containing the 'Oratio in die cinerum apud Pium Papam Secundum' of Giovanni Antonio Campano, and the 'De ira Dei', 'De opificio Dei', and 'De fenice ave' of Lactantius.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.14
Scope and Contents
15th-century manuscript produced in France. The work can be dated to after 1458 due to the mention of Pope Pius II in the rubric of 'Oratio in die Cinerum'.The manuscript is the work of one scribe and is written in littera textualis with 28 lines to a page. The contents are as follows:Vellum flyleaf with possible ownership inscription. Folio 1.Vellum flyleaf with title inscription. This folio has probably been repurposed as it was once facing a...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
'Auchinleck manuscript', one of the earliest and largest compilations of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.1
Scope and Contents
The following description was based primarily upon the conclusions of Pearsall and Cunningham (1977) and Burnley and Wiggins (2003). The numbering system of the items follows that of Pearsall and Cunningham.The Auchinleck manuscript was probably written in London at some point between 1331 and 1340. These dates can be assigned on the basis of palaeographical evidence and internal references. One of these references is the ending of the 'The Anonymous Short English Metrical...
Dates:
1331 - 1340.
Bible, written in France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.1.2
Scope and Contents
The order of contents (from folio 3) is that usually found in French bibles of the period, with the common set of 64 prologues (see ‘Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries’, pages 210-212). The biblical books are followed (folio 412) by the interpretations of Hebrew names beginning ‘Aaz apprehendens` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 7709). Leaves containing II Maccabees 8, verses 22-10, verse 30 and 14, verse 5 - Matthew 1, verse 11 are missing.There are...
Dates:
2nd half of 13th century.
Composite volume of English origin containing two manuscripts of the 12th and 13th century; the 'Thebaid' of Statius, and the 'Aeneid' of Virgil
File
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 16th-century manuscript of the allegorical poem 'Le Chevalier délibéré' by Olivier de la Marche, composed in 1483.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is listed with eleven others in 'Etude biographique, littéraire et bibliographique sur Olivier de la Marche' by Henri Stein. It is also included in La Marche, Olivier de. 'Le Chevalier Deliberé (The Resolute Knight) ed. by Carleton W. Carroll, 1999. There are ten miniatures, each in a pillared frame. The subjects are the author writing his work (folio 1), the knight setting out on his quest (folio 3), the knight approaching the hermit (folio 5 verso), the hermit...
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Late 14th- or early 15th-century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.7
Scope and Contents
During the 14th century, a great number of manuscripts of the ‘Roman de la Rose’ were produced. Many of them were very richly illustrated, as this one would have been, had the illustration scheme been completed. The fact that so many manuscripts of the work were commissioned is accounted for by the great popularity of the text, which was at the time one of the major standards of the elite culture. At the beginning of the 15th century however, perhaps because of its outstanding success, it...
Dates:
Late 14th to early 15th century.
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.
Microfilm chiefly of photographs and prints of works of Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.915
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Photographs of and printed articles concerning murals of Phoebe Anna Traquair, [1890-1948] (MS.8123);
Illuminated manuscript, 1895-1897, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MS.8127);
Collotype prints of an illuminated manuscript, 1890-1892, by Phoebe Anna Traquair of ‘In Memoriam’ by Alfred Tennyson (MS.8128).
Dates:
[1890-1948.]
Microfilm of manuscript of the complete works of Catullus, written in the Italic bookhand of Lodovico Regio of Imola.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.364
Dates:
1495
Microfilm of manuscripts of Statius, Virgil, Ovid and Claudian.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.534
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Two originally separate manuscripts, 12th century-13th century, of Statius and Virgil, bound together from at least the late 14th century, when the volume was in the Library of Dover Priory (Adv.MS.18.5.12);
Two originally separate manuscripts, late 12th century-13th century, of the ‘Fasti’ by Ovid and of major poems of Claudian, the former of which belonged to Leicester Abbey, bound together from at least the 16th century (Adv.MS.18.5.13).
Dates:
12th century-13th century.
Microfilm of ‘Roman de la Rose’, [circa 1230, circa 1270]; and, ‘The Talbot Hours’, 15th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.520
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Manuscript, late 14th or early 15th century, of ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270 (Adv.MS.19.1.7);
‘The Talbot Hours’, Psalter and Hours, 15th century (Dep.221/1).
Dates:
[Circa 1230]-15th century.
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.846
Dates:
Early 16th century.
Microfilm of the Auchinleck manuscript, a compilation of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.842
Scope and Contents
A new master negative microfilm.
Dates:
1331-1340.
Microfilm of two calligraphic manuscripts of Esther Inglis.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1388
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Vne estreine pour tres illustre et vertueuse dame la Contesse de Bedford’, calligraphic manuscript, 1606, by Esther Inglis (Acc.11624);"Cinquant [sic] Octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, dediez a tresillustre seigneur le conte de Shrewsbury, pour ses estrennes l'an 1607", being a calligraphic copy of the verses by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu, first published anonymously in ‘Les Cantigues du Seigneur de Maisonfleur’, [1586, or...
Dates:
[1586, or before]-19th century.
Mid-14th century manuscript of the ‘Roman de la Rose’, written in two stages by Guillaume de Lorris, circa 1230, and Jean de Meun, circa 1270
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.1.6
Scope and Contents
The first author, Guillaume de Lorris, wrote, circa 1230, a courtly allegorical poem of about 4000 verses, which sought to be an ‘art of love’, and which was continued, circa 1270, by Jean de Meun, who added about 17000 verses in a very different style and ideological frame. The whole opus is one of the most important literary works of the late Western Middle Ages, its influence upon the world of literature running until late in the Renaissance. This encyclopaedia of love (which also, in the...
Dates:
Mid-14th century.
Records of Saint Ninian`s Cathedral, Perth; of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane; and of the Episcopal Church in Scotland.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.251
Scope and Contents
Also included are papers of clergymen connected with Saint Ninian`s, including sermons, historical and liturgical works by Bishop Charles Wordsworth, Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Dean George Taylor Shillito Farquar, and Dean James Wilson Harper.
Dates:
1648-20th century.