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12th-century manuscript of plays by Terence, and part of a grammatical treatise on ‘exigentia’.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript includes additions of the 14th century.(i) Terence, `Andria` (folio 1), `Eunuchus` (folio 11), `Heautontimorumenos’ (folio 24 verso), `Adelphoe` (folio 39 verso), `Hecyra` (folio 51 verso), `Phormio` (folio 60). The lines are written as prose. The following lines are missing through loss of leaves; ‘Andria’ 1-74 ‘vitam’, 238 ‘sese’-381 ‘tum’, 973 ‘de’-‘Eunuchus’ 61 ‘belIum’, ‘Hecyra’ 823 ‘planum’ – ‘Phormio’ 3 ‘detenere’. ‘Hecyra’ 201-281 ‘umquam’ (folio 25) are...
Dates:
12th century.
13th-century manuscript containing extracts from the writings of Gilbert of Hoyland, St Bernard, St Gregory, St Augustine, and other theological works.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.3
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Manuscript produced in England containing the theological works of various authors. The manuscript has been dated to the 12th century by Mikkers; to the end of the 12th century by Schenkl; to the 12th-13th century Leclercq (quoted in Mikkers); and by Dutton and Borland to the 13th century.The manuscript is written by various contemporary hands in a protogothic bookhand. It is written in a single column with 26-30 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as...
Dates:
1st half of 13th century.
13th-century manuscript containing theological works by Boethius and St Augustine, and short excerpts of works by Anselm, Eadmer, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.18
Scope and Contents
13th-century manuscript produced in England containing a selection of theological works from the 'Opuscula sacra' of Boethius, Sermons of St Augustine, and excerpts from Eadmer, Anselm, St Gregory of Tours, St Caesarius of Arles, and Bernard of Clairvaux; as well as two annonymous excerpts, the 'Gesta Salvatoris' and a commentary on Psalm 84.The manuscript has been dated to the 13th century by Ker, and to the early 14th century by Borland, Römer, and Schenkl. The work...
Dates:
13th century.
14th-century manuscript, possibly produced in Italy, containing a complete copy of the 'Eruditio regum et principum' of Guibert de Tournai, originally written in 1259 for King Louis IX of France.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.6
Scope and Contents
14th-century manuscript, possibly produced in Italy, containing a complete copy of the 'Eruditio regum et principum' of Guibert de Tournai, originally written in 1259 for King Louis IX of France. There is an inscription at the head of folio 1r which reads: 'Ludovico IX', refering to King Louis. The work belongs to the 'Mirrors for Princes' literary genre which aims to instruct kings and rulers on their behaviour.The manuscript is the work of one scribe and is written in a rotunda...
Dates:
14th century.
15th century Italian manuscript of works by Cicero
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.15
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:'Laelius de amicitia' (folio 1); 'Cato Maior de senectute' (folio 25); and,'Paradoxa Stoicorum' (folio 47) (49 'infinite'-end is lost). The text shows a great many variants, especially changes of order and small omissions, from that of the older manuscripts. On folio 1 is a gold initial with white vine-stem decoration, filled with green and lilac and surrounded with blue. Other initials...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript containing 'De vero et falso bono' of Bartolomeo Platina in the hand of Bartolomeo Sanvito.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.16
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Italy, either in late 1471 or early 1472, after the election of Sixtus IV to the Papacy. The work is a dedication copy to Pope Sixtus IV of a moral treatise, consisting of three dialogues written by Bartolomeo Sacchi, more commonly known as Bartolomeo Platina. This is the second version of the dialogue, with an earlier version called 'De falso ac vero bono' dedicated to Pope Paul II. The work starts with a dedication to Sixtus IV by Bartolomeo Platina on...
Dates:
[?1471-?1472]
15th-century manuscript of uncertain origin which contains miscellaneous works, mostly theological
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) A version of the first two parts of the `Secretum Secretorum`. It corresponds to the text published in ‘Opera ... Rogeri Baconi’, fascicle V, pages 38-75, but is a very much shorter version, omitting the whole of caps. ii (the prologue of John), iv and viii, and many passages elsewhere. There are a few insertions and corrections in another hand. Begins `Quando allexander subiugavit sibi perses`. Ends `una vice post aliam et sic...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries containing devotional texts.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.20.8.3
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) `Speculum peccatoris` by an unknown author. It has been variously attributed to Saints Bernard and Augustine, Richard Rolle of Hampole, and others. See ‘Writings ascribed to Richard Rolle’, pages 353-354, and ‘Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus’, II/2, page 116. Printed in ‘Patrologia latina’ xi, columns 983-992. (Folio 2.)(ii) Devotions to the Virgin, beginning 'O virgo concipiens et...
Dates:
15th century.
15th-century manuscript written in the Low Countries, containing various works attributed to, or written by, St Bernard.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.9
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The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Extracts from the `Vita beatissimi Malachie`, caps. 1-25. See ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 1073-1104 (folio 1 verso).(ii) Notes on vipers with reference to Aristotle (folio 8 verso).(iii) `De conversione ad clericos`, cap. 3. ‘Patrologia Latina’ 182, 856-857 (folio 9).(iv) `Bernardus de servitute vitiorum et incertitudine mortis` (folio 10).(v) Anonymous commentaries on the Song of...
Dates:
15th century.
Composite volume, of uncertain origin, containing two manuscripts of works by St Bonaventure, the 'Breviloquium' and the 'Formula noviciorum'.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.7
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A manuscript containing two works of St Bonaventure. The 'Breviloquium' is of the 13th century, and the 'Formula noviciorum', here attributed to St Bonaventure, is of the 14th century.Both works are written in double columns. The 'Breviloquium' is the work of one scribe, written in littera textualis with 39 lines to a page. The 'Formula noviciorum' is the work of a different scribe, written in a rotunda script with between 32 to 36 lines to a page.The contents are as...
Dates:
13th century, 14th century.
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.1
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
13th century.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.7.11A-H; (former binding)
Scope and Contents
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Dates:
14th century-15th century.
Gilbert Burnet, "Exercitationum seu Quaestionum Philosophicarum Tomus Prior"
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Identifier: Acc.4179
Dates:
17th century.
Illuminated manuscript of `De civitate Dei` [The City of God] by St Augustine.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.2
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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...
Dates:
1503.
Institutiones Grammaticae.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.3
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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...
Dates:
15th century.
Italian manuscript of Books 1-5 of 'De consolatione philosophiae' by Boethius.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.14
Scope and Contents
The text ends on folio 105 verso; on folios 106-107 recto in the same hand is a note 'Ad sciendum de vita et morte Boetii Notandum ...'; folios 107 verso and 108 are blank.The text is written in a round Italian gothic hand. There are initials in red and blue, infilled and framed with red and green, at the beginning of each book (folios 1, 15 verso, 35, 63 verso, 87 verso). There are plain initials (some shaded) at the beginning of each section, alternately red and blue; within...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 13th-century manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', attributed to Robert Grosseteste but probably by Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.1
Scope and Contents
Late 13th-century manuscript containing the seven books of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis' of Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg. The manuscript is written in littera textualis with 26 to 29 lines to a page.The 'Compendium' is believed to have been compiled by Hugh towards the end of his life, from circa 1260 onwards. The work is divided in to seven books: I The Nature of God; II The Creation; III On Sin; IV The Incarnation; V On Grace, the Virtues, the Beatitudes and the Ten...
Dates:
Late 13th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript containing 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches, bound with 3 incunabula.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.5
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15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Moralium dogma philosophorum' attributed to Guillaume de Conches. The script and watermark evidence suggest that the manuscript is a work of the late 15th century, probably 1470 and after. The manuscript is the work of one scribe using an Italian humanistic script with 26 lines to a page.The contents of the volume are as follows:Pasted to the inner of the front board is a letter from J. B. Oldham, Librarian,...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Late 15th-century manuscript, probably written in Italy, containing the 'Quaestiones' of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena) and a medical work described as the sixth in a series of 'sermons', possibly related to the works of Nicolaus de Florentia.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.12
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) The ‘Quaestiones’ of Ugo Benzi (Hugo de Siena). This text contains those `de complexionibus (folio 1), `de equali ad pondus’ (folio 5 verso), ‘de etate consistendi` (folio 10), `de modo augmentationis` (folio 16 verso), ‘de malitia complexionis diverse` (folio 20), `utrum virtutes anime distinguantur ab invicem et ab anima` and `per obiecta` (folio 30; the two are not here separated), `de secundo modo equalitatis` (folio 31) and...
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Manuscript, 15th century, of a copy of the `Expositio symboli apostolorum` by Joannes de Marienwerder.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.15
Scope and Contents
The main text (folio 10) is preceded (folio 1) by the anonymous `Tabula expositionis` (see ‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, numbers 4780 and 4780.1), and followed (folio 142 verso) by ` De octo beatitudinibus` (‘Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi’, number 4780, 1.1). The latter appears to be incomplete, breaking off after the third Beatitude.The manuscript is in one hand throughout, with the exception of folio 146. Written in brown ink with large initials, headings and chapter...
Dates:
15th century
Manuscript of 'De oratore' and the 'Orator' by Cicero.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.16
Scope and Contents
(i) Cicero. `De oratore`. i. 1-9 ‘philoso]phiam’ are lost (folio 1).(ii) Cicero, `Orator`. 155 ‘quod erat usitatum’ to 173 ‘redundans and 235 ‘nec res’ to the end are lost. Folio 137 should stand before folio 131 (folio 110 verso).This is one of the many indirect copies of the `codex Laudensis`, the ancient manuscript of Cicero`s rhetorical works found at Lodi in 1421 and lost again in 1428. It is a good copy, related to O (Ottobon.2057) and P (Vat.Pal.1469). Space...
Dates:
15th century.
Manuscript of 'Oculus Sacerdotis' by William of Pagula.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.3.6
Scope and Contents
The text (folio 12) contains the three sections of the treatise, ‘Pars Oculi`, `Dextera Pars` and `Sinistra Pars`, but cap. 26 to the end of the `Sinistra Pars` is missing. The text is preceded by:(i) Four short works on diet and blood-letting in English, beginning ‘Here seyth galian ye leche and thecheth of metes and drinkes’. At the end is a rubric ‘Secundum Robertum[?] Grant de Everton’ (folio 1 verso).(ii) Remarks on the qualities of the Virgin...
Dates:
14th century.
Manuscript of 'Secretum secretorum' by Pseudo-Aristotle, 'De excidio Troiae' by Dares Phrygius, and 'Historia regum Britannie' by Geoffrey of Monmouth; written by a 13th- or 14th-century hand of uncertain origin.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.5
Scope and Contents
The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) Pseudo-Aristotle, 'Secretum secretorum' (edited by R. Steele, in 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', fascicule V, pages 25-172). This manuscript contains the letter of Philip, a list of chapters, and the text in seven books (the headings for i, iv, and vi are omitted). It is of the common class, omitting all the test passages of Gilson and Steele (cf. 'Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi', pages xxv-xxvi); further omissions are...
Dates:
13th century-14th century.
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century containing: the 'Paradisus' of Heraclides; the 'Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae sub Geiserico et Hunrico regibus Wandalorum' of Victor Vitensis; 'De corpore et sanguine Domini' of Paschasius Radbertus (attributed to Rabanus Maurus); 'De corpore Domini contra Berengarium' of Guitmund; and two sermons of St Augustine of Hippo.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.3
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of the late 11th and early 12th century, written in England and containing various theological works. The manuscript has been dated to the early 12th century by Borland, Ker, Schenkl, Paul, and Römer. In private correspondence with the National Library of Scotland Michael Gullick has stated that folios 1-122 were written at Durham, probably in the 1090s, but definitely before 1096. He further suggests that folios 123-149 were added to the manuscript sometime in the late 11th or...
Dates:
Late 11th century - early 12th century.