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...

Scope and Contents Early 15th-century manuscript produced in England, containing a collection of English law statutes. The work is written by a number of contemporary hands in a bastarda script, normally with 23 lines to a page.The contents are as follows:Paper and vellum flyleaves with ownership and shelfmark inscriptions. Folios i-iv.Table of contents, in a 15th-century hand. Folio 1rv.Later insertions of various statutes, in a 15th-century hand. Folios...

Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland, primarily for the use of converting the prices of commodities between Scotland and the Low Countries. The commodities listed include wool, skins, hides, cloth, canvas, iron, wax and wine. The monetary units used are a mixture of Flemish and English money. The volume also contains a small portion of religious material. Hanham believes that the commercial part of the volume is likely to be a copy of a work which was possibly originally composed in...

Scope and Contents The manuscript begins with five books closely following the first five books of Fordun as given in Bower, followed by 15 chapters of Book VI, somewhat abridged from Bower, Book VI, chapters 9-23 nearly as compiled by Fordun. This is followed by the rest of Book VI and by five more books, being an abridgement of Scotichronicon, though at variance with it on some points, and introducing much original matter.The manuscript is a copy, made probably in the early 16th century, of MS...

Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland containing extracts from Scottish chronicles, primarily drawing upon the works of Fordun and Bower, but also including independent entries. The main text is the work of one scribe, and written in a cursive script with 22 lines to a page. Additions and insertions are in another hand of the 16th century.The manuscript has been dated to the end of the 15th century by the folio catalogue, which was probably compiled by Cosmo Innes. Borland...

Scope and Contents Manuscript written in Scotland containing the accounts of the Bishopric of Dunkeld for the years 1506-1517. The manuscript is the work of one hand and was probably written contemporaneously with the record.The work is not complete and there are leaves wanting at the end of the volume, as well as in places throughout. Many of the folios are damaged with loss of text, particularly at the beginning and end of the volume, and these have been repaired and mounted on paper. The...

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...

Scope and Contents Manuscript produced in Scotland containing 'The oryginale cronykil of Scotland', or 'Original Chronicle', of Andrew Wyntoun. The work is a vernacular history of Scotland and the world in the form of a metrical poem. In Amours' edition, this manuscript is referred to as E2, or the Second Edinburgh Manuscript. Borland, Amours, and Laing have dated the manuscript to the early 16th century.Amours notes that the manuscript is almost complete with only a few folios wanting...

Scope and Contents Chartulary produced in Scotland containing copies of royal, papal, episcopal, and other charters, as well as some grants of the abbey of Lindores.The work is written in a small cursive hand and was probably written in the early 16th century. According to Davis it certainly dates from after 1502. Dickson also suggests that the manuscript may have been written as late as the reign of James IV (d. 1513). The work contains 25 documents concerning the abbey of Lindores and...

Scope and Contents Manuscript written in Scotland in the early 17th century, before 1637, for Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington. The volume consists of copies and extracts of various historical and legal works.The full contents are listed below, primarily taken from Dolezalek's census and the 'Historical Catalogue' record. Any gaps in the foliation refer to blank sheets or sheets used for titles and headings.Extracts of the rental book of the Abbey of Dunfermline. This is printed...

Scope and Contents A prayer book from the Low Countries written in 1575. The work contains various prayers in Dutch, as well as the seven penitential psalms and the litany.The work is written in cursive hands in black ink with rubrics and some initials in red. There appear to be four different hands present in the volume.The main body of the work is written in the same cursive hand, while two decorative elements are accompanied by a different bookhand. Folios 154v-158v are written in a...

Scope and Contents A transcript of 56 charters of the Abbey of Holme Cultram, a Cistercian monastery founded by monks from Melrose in 1150, in what was at the time Scottish territory. The charters selected for transcription concern Scottish lands or were granted by Scottish persons. Further charters are calendared at the back of the volume. The original chartulary of the late 13th century is held in the Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle.The transcriber, who signs his name on the title page and on...

Scope and Contents Manuscript of transcripts of the chartularies and original charters of the Archbishopric of Glasgow which were deposited in the Scots College in Paris. The material in the manuscript covers the 12th to the 16th centuries.The work is written in one hand and contains frequent additions, erasures, and corrections. The additions to the work, both in the margins and interlineal, are partly in Latin and partly in Scots.As well as charters, the volume contains extracts of...

Scope and Contents This is a copy of the original, short version ending in 1327. It contains preface (folio iii), alphabetical table (folio v; the reference-system, explained at the beginning, is to the foliation of this manuscript), map of the world (folio xiii verso), and text in seven books (folios 1, 33, 57, 92, 122 verso, 159 verso, 183), not formally divided into chapters.The presence of a map is unusual in this version (‘Universal Chronicle of Ranulf Higden’, pages 63-68, 97-98). It is...

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The Roman series of psalter collects. See ‘The Psalter Collects’. Each collect is preceded by the incipit of its psalm. Folios containing the collects for psalms 1-8, 68-83, 91-97, 104-110 and 146-150 are missing. (Folio 1.)(ii) Psalter of Saint Jerome. (Folio 16.)(iii) Litany. (Folio 24.)(iv) The verses `In iiij poyntis my will or I hens departe`, in a 16th-century hand. They are published from...

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The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.

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The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.

Scope and Contents A manuscript written in Scotland, which belonged to the Mortimer family of Fowlis Easter in Angus.The contents are as follows: (i) Temporale. (Folio 1). It includes (folio 127) the Great rubric, lectiones, the office 'In dedicatione ecclesie' and prayers to St Christopher and the Virgin. (ii) Calendar in red and black. (Folio 158). Entries in red include Saint Vigean (20 January), Margaret of Scotland (19 June and 16 November), Moloc (25 June), Blaan (10 August) and Marnoc (25...

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A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.

Scope and Contents A manuscript of the City of God, executed in Paris in 1503 for the Cardinal d’Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen, and probably intended for presentation to his brother, Louis, Bishop of Albi. The manuscript was originally in two volumes, with the division at the end of Book X. As a result of this division, folios 149v-150v are left blank, but have been lined and ruled. There are two folios missing, so that the beginning of Book X is wanting. Laborde states that the work was probably written by a...

Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The `Imago mundi` of Honorius (folio 1), here entitled `Mappa mundi`, and attributed in both the title and the colophon to Isidore of Seville.(ii) `Speculum regum` by Godfrey of Viterbo (folio 23 verso). It contains the preface, list of chapters, and list of popes, but not the poem itself.(iii) ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’ (folio 38). An anonymous poem. Written in an Italian littera textualis...

Scope and Contents Aberdeen (contents-list, folios 13-24; index, folios 25-28); Moray (contents-list, folios 29-44; index, folios 45-48);‘my MS. Monasticon Scotiae’ (folios 49-72);Coldingham (folios 73-76);Kelso (folios 77-84);Melrose (folios 85-88); Soutra (folios 89-90); Newbattle (folios 91-96); Dryburgh (folios 97-100);Paisley (folios 101-108); Cambuskenneth (folios 109-112); ...

Scope and Contents The manuscript is not listed in ‘A Census of medieval Latin grammatical manuscripts’ by G L Bursill-Hall (Stuttgart, 1981). The text refers to Priscian and other authors, and sometimes gives examples of grammatical usage in Italian. Incipit ‘Cum de gramatica sit ad presens sermo.` It ends with a series of Italian phrases and their Latin equivalents, followed (folio 185 verso) by paragraphs on prosody and on Greek, Hebrew and Latin letters.Written in one humanistic hand...