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Found in 229 Collections and/or Records:
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.
File
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, written by Antonio Caballario, of the 'Eclogues' and 'Aeneid' of Virgil.
File
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
Scope and Contents
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
Scope and Contents
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 1488, of the 'Wallace' of Blind Hary.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.2(ii)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland, containing the narrative poem 'The Wallace' of Blind Hary, or Henry the minstrel, probably originally composed between 1474 and 1479. This manuscript is written in Scots and is the only extant contemporary manuscript of the Wallace. The colophon on folio 124v states that the work was transcribed in 1488 by John Ramsay, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth. The work is in a single column and is divided into 11 books, with spaces left at the...
Dates:
1488.
Manuscript, written in 1489, of 'The Brus' of John Barbour.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.2(i)
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Scotland containing the narrative poem The Bruce, or The Brus, of John Barbour. The colophon on folio 70r states that the work was transcribed in 1489 by John Ramsay, a prior of the Charterhouse of Perth, at the request of Symon Lochmalony, vicar of Auchtermoonzie in Fife.The work is written in Older Scots and is in double columns, with around 47 lines per column. The poem is divided into paragraphs and sections of varying lengths. A new paragraph is...
Dates:
1489.
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.
File
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.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of 'De Lingua Latina' by Varro, containing books v to x.54 (‘contra in eo’).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.15
Scope and Contents
Headings in red. Initials of books v, vi, viii, and x have been cut out. Written in a small, round humanistic hand. Greek words are omitted or added by a later hand. What was probably an ownership inscription at the foot of folio 1 has been cut out. On the lower pastedown is written ‘1452 vezudo p(er) mi Zohane de ipescadun [?]’. The same note, dated 1451 or 1452, is found in other manuscripts: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud.Lat.48, Add.A2, D’Orville 36 and Canon.Misc.486 (see ‘Catalogue of...
Dates:
Mid-fifteenth century; before 1452.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of the epitome by Junianus Justinus of 'Historiae Philippicae' by Trogus Pompeius, and of the prologues to that work.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.11
Scope and Contents
The epitome begins on folio 1, and the prologues on folio 163.The text is apparently contaminated from the [?] and [?] classes.Headings in red. A large initial on folio 1 in blue, red, and gold and a border of flowers and leaves in red, brown, green and blue; in the centre of this at the root is a coat of arms, azure three thistles on a chevron or. Initials of each book and prologue alternately red and blue (except that those of books xx and xxi are both blue and...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript, written in Italy, of the 'Satires' of Juvenal.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is written by two 15th-century hands (changing after folio 30, vi. 487). Folio 70 (an inserted leaf) repeats xiv. 93-142, already written on folio 69. The first part is of the Ξ group (cf. `Handschriftliche Grundlagen des Juvenaltextes`); the second part, although it has the Ξ feature of xv being placed after xvi, appears to have a Ψ text.The first part is written in a neo-Caroline hand, closely imitating the script of the 11th and 12th centuries (indeed it has...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript, written in South France or Spain in the first half of the 12th-century, containing medical treatises.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.11
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) 'Liber febrium' by Isaac (Isḥāq ibn Sulaiman al-Isrā'ili), translated by Constantinus Africanus, in prologue and five books. The author and translator are given in the contents list only (folio 1).(ii) 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, the medical section translated by Joannes Hispalensis, without title (folio 82). See 'Speculum', volume xxxiv, page 24.(iii) 'Micro-tegni' by Galen, translated by...
Dates:
1st half of 12th century.
Manuscript, written in the 14th century, containing extracts from 'De Clementia' and an incomplete text of 'Epistolae morales' by Seneca; with many contemporary annotations.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Extracts from the ‘De clementia’, in two series, concerning respectively ‘clementia’ and ‘crudelitas’: i.1.5 ‘rarissimum’ – ‘est’, ‘nemo’ – ‘Romano’, i.1.6 ‘difficile’ – ‘procedunt’, i.1.7 ‘iam’ – ‘sunt’, ‘fecit’ – ‘assecuti’, i.2.2 ‘nec’ – ‘praeponderet’, 1.3.3 ‘nullum’ – ‘struendum est’, i.4.1 ‘ille’ – ‘fidem’, i.4.3 ‘olim’ – ‘capite’, i.5.1 ‘uides’ – ‘parcere’, i.5.3 ‘decet’ – ‘conspicitur’, i.5.5 ‘magnam’ – ‘despicere’, i.7.4 ‘humili’ – ‘liberius est’, i.8.1 ‘eorum’ - i.8.2 ‘timore’,...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript,1589, of a poem by Jacob Jacobsen Wolf in honour of the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark; with a printed work, 'Cenotaphium illustrissimo principi ac Domino Friderico II' (Rostochij, S. Myliander, 1588).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.29
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, probably written in Denmark, containing a complete copy of Jacob Jacobsen Wolf's wedding poem to King James VI and Princess Anne of Denmark. Harsting suggests that this manuscript is Wolf's original version of the Latin text and is written in his hand, in a humanistic script.The verses are written across the spread of two pages, from the verso of one leaf to the recto of the next. The manuscript was written in 1589, and Harsting suggests late November to...
Dates:
1589.
'Meroure of Wyssdome' by John Ireland.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.2.8
Scope and Contents
The work was written in 1490 for the instruction of James IV, but this may not be the copy intended for presentation to the king. Written in one hand throughout. The text (folio 8) is preceded by a list of contents (folio 1). The colophon (folio 358 verso) is dated 1490 but this may be the date of composition rather than of writing. R J Lyall dated the manuscript on the basis of the watermarks as circa 1492x in `Fifteenth-century Scottish manuscripts: a revised checklist`....
Dates:
?1490.
Mid 13th-century Bible, probably written in England.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.10
Scope and Contents
(i) The contents are in the order Genesis-Nehemiah, Esther, Tobit, Judith, Job-Matthew, Luke, Mark, John, Acts, Catholic Epistles, Pauline Epistles (with Colossians following 2 Thessalonians), Apocalypse (folio 1). Two leaves containing the end of the general prologue and the prologue to the Pentateuch, and Genesis chapters 24-25 are missing. There are no prologues to 2 Chronicles, Ecclesiastes, Hosea, or the Pauline Epistles from Ephesians to Hebrews. The prologues are the usual set (see...
Dates:
Mid 13th 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.
Miscellaneous manuscript fragments recovered from the bindings of various manuscripts and printed books.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.84.1.1-84.2.12
Dates:
12th century-20th century.
'Newe Testament', a Middle English manuscript of the New Testament, in the earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible, written in England in the late 14th century.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.7
Scope and Contents
The text is mostly the earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible; see the edition by Josiah Forshall and Sir Frederic Madden, where this is manuscript Q of the earlier version and manuscript Z of the later version. It is described in volume 1, page lix, number 145; see also ‘The manuscripts and versions of the Wycliffite Bible’, pages 333-347, and ‘The earlier version of the Wycliffite Bible’, volume 7.The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Table of Gospels...
Dates:
Late 14th century.
'Opiscula theologica', a manuscript of uncertain origin, written in Greek in the 16th-century, containing various works.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.14
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) St Ephraem Syrus, on Joseph (‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’ 2200; ‘Opera omnia Graece et Latine’, ii.21) (folio 1).(ii) St John Chrysostom, on pity (‘Codices Chrysostomici Graeci’, Appendix 7) (folio 21).(iii) Extract from ‘Chronicon’, iv.229, by Georgios Hamartolos, (‘Patrologia Graeca’, cx.836) (folio 28 verso).(iv) On an unworthy priest (‘Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca’ 1449e, with...
Dates:
16th century.
Palimpsest, made up of at least five English manuscripts of the 8th to 11th centuries, overwritten in England in the late 11th century and belonging to Thorney Abbey.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.8
Scope and Contents
Underwriting: Such identification as has been achieved is due to N R Ker, in ‘Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions’, iii, 169 and what follows; and E A Lowe, ‘Codices Latini Antiquiares’, supplement. Ultra-violet photographs of folios 1 + 8, 4 + 5, 9 + 16, 28 + 31, 19 + 22, 3, 30 recto, and 26 + 33 are in MS.8494, folios 1-15.Folios of the manuscripts (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) have generally been turned sideways and folded to form sheets of the new volume;...
Dates:
8th century-11th century.
Papers from the library of St Benedict`s Abbey, Fort Augustus.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11218
Scope and Contents
Includes:
patristic texts, 1080, of Marianus at Regensburg
"Rule of St Benedict", 15th century
Book of Hours, late 15th century, with the signature of Mary of Guise
fragments of music, 15th century to 16th century, from the Inverness song-school
Dates:
11th century to early 18th century.
Pauline epistles with gloss, written in France in the 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.7
Scope and Contents
Leaves are missing which contain Romans 1, verso 21 - 3, verse 5, Corinthians I 16, verse 17 - II 1, verse 6, Titus 3, verse 5 - Philemon, verse 4, and Hebrews 10, verse 26 onwards. Some of the prologues are included with the main text, and others with the marginal gloss; a few have been added by another 12th-century hand. There are a number of 12th- and 13th-century annotations. Each Epistle is preceded by a large initial containing foliage and sometimes birds, dragons and human...
Dates:
12th century.