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Papers of the Scottish Council for Civil Liberties including administrative and financial papers of the executive committee and various sub committees, local groups, annual reports and publications.

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The manuscript is of the later recension, which includes the passage on Pope Joan (folio 22 verso), and ends with the death of Pope John XXI. The entries for the Popes are on the versos and for the Emperors on the rectos of the leaves. There are some glosses and marginal notes in other hands.

Initials in red and blue with decorative penwork, and rubrics in red.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) A copy written in a fourteenth-century English hand of the 'Institutions', as far as Book III, Title 11 (folio 1). The text is accompanied by a full gloss and further annotations in different hands. It contains Lombardic initials in red in both text and gloss, and underlinings in red in the gloss. The leaf following folio 1 (containing Title 2, Section 3 to Title 5, Section 3) and the bifolium following folio 16 (containing Title 11, Section 1 to...

Scope and Contents Together the fragments form the first two and the last two leaves of a gathering (assuming one of eight leaves), and contain Mark XII, 41 to XIII, and XIV, 49 to XV, 4 almost complete. The work was written in double columns, the inner column containing the text, the outer (and narrower) containing the glosses, and further glosses have been added in a different hand in the margins. The leaves are almost complete, lacking the top margins and two or three lines of text and, in leaves 7 and 8,...

Scope and Contents The text does not seem to belong to any of the better-known groups of manuscripts and contains numerous differences from modern editions. Ep. 53 is placed after 37, 58 after 82, and 59 after 56. Ep. 48 is divided in two at paragraph 6. (This serves to correct the numeration, which is faulty following Ep. 4.) Throughout the text is considerably shortened, and there are numerous variants of vocabulary and word-order. Each letter is preceded by a summary. Ep. 88 is followed by a summary of Ep....

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The text of the work, which is not recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’, is written in two columns.

The fragment was recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.34.e) of ‘ἐκλογων ἀποφθεγματων ὑποθηκων, περι φρονησεων λογος πρωτος’ (Venetiis, 1534), by Iohannes Stobaeus, where it was used as a binding strip inside the back cover.

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The fragment had been used as the binding strip inside the back cover of a copy (pressmark M.13.g.16) of ‘In libros Galeni de arte curandi explanationes’ (Lugduni, 1556), by Joannes Baptista Montanus.

The text is written in a hand which may be of French provenance. Remains of a large rubricated initial are visible also.