Glosses. Annotations.
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Scope Note: Brief explanations, translations, comments, interpretations, or definitions of a word or passage, particularly those found in the margins of pages or between lines of text in a book or manuscript. Also used for any other explanation that serves the same function.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
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
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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
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(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
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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 ‘Quoniam attachiamenta’, statutes, ‘Regiam Maiestatem’, forest laws, ‘De judicibus’, and other smaller legal texts, written soon after the middle of the 15th century, and belonging to the Charterhouse at Perth.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.25.5.10
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘Quoniam attachiamaenta’ (folio 1). Folios 7 verso and 8 are blank. ‘Acts of the Scottish Parliament’, i, pages 281-295.(ii) `Modus seu processus breuium`, elsewhere the last chapters of the `Quoniam attachiamenta` (folio 10). Only the title of the last one is written on folio 12 recto.Folio 12 verso blank.(iii) `De exceptionibus` (folio 13).(iv) `Modus procedendi in itinere...
Dates:
14th century-3rd quarter of 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, written by Antonio Caballario, of the 'Eclogues' and 'Aeneid' of Virgil.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.14
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`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.
Microfilm of English manuscript of miscellaneous works of Coelius Sedulius.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.814
Dates:
Late 10th century.
Microfilm of glossed copy of ‘Tabula super bibliam’ by Johannes Vasco, 1393; and, copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15th century.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.453
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Tabula super bibliam’. A glossed copy, early 15th century, of a summary of the Bible in Latin verse by Johannes Vasco, Order of Friars Minor, with the explanatory verses which give the date of composition as 1393 (Adv.MS.18.4.2);
Copies, 1623, by John Wither of English rolls of arms, 13th-15 century, mostly from ‘An auntient booke of Armes which Mr Glover Somerset the Harald had of Mr Joseph Holland in Cullers’ (Adv.MS.31.7.10).
Dates:
13th century-15th century.
Microfilm of glossed manuscript of German provenance, written in or about 1508, of the first part (Epp. 1-88) of Seneca's 'Epistulae Morales'.
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Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1047
Dates:
[Circa 1508.]
Microfilm of manuscripts of Statius, Virgil, Ovid and Claudian.
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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 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: Mf.Sec.MSS.221
Dates:
Early 12th century.
Microfilm of 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: Mf.Sec.MSS.703
Dates:
Early 12th century.
`Satires` of Juvenal. Edition with the commentaries of Antonio Mancinelli and Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris: Ascensius, 1505), with manuscript annotations.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.11
Scope and Contents
The annotations are of various types:(i) The title page is supplied on the second flyleaf by a 16th-century hand.(ii) Underlining and summarising occur sporadically.(iii) Interlinear glosses and marginal explanations by a 16th-century hand (probably the same as in (i)) are frequent up to folio lxiv.(iv) Notes of variant readings in two manuscripts of Isaac Voss are added in the margins by Peter Lambeck, who inscribed the volume in Amsterdam in...
Dates:
16th century-1646.
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.