Religious texts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: General term for texts of religion, sacred beliefs, or related to religious beliefs and practices.
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript of an incomplete copy of 'De Actibus Apostolorum' by Arator.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in England containing an incomplete copy of Arator's 'De Actibus Apostolorum'. The manuscript was probably written at the end of the 12th century, and has been dated as such by Ker and Watson. The work has also been dated to the 13th century by Borland and McKinlay. The work is written in a gothic script with between 27-34 lines to a page. The manuscript is the work of several contemporary hands. McKinley has identified four different hands present...
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Manuscript, possibly 11th century, of the Gospels of Saints Mark and Luke, and part of the prologue of Saint John.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.8.16
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was produced in Ireland and is an example of a pocket Gospel book. It was possibly written in the 11th century, based on the script. Schenkl has dated the work to the 9th century, and Borland has attributed it to the 13th century. The manuscript is written in an Insular minuscule script with 23 or 24 lines to a page. There are brief scribal marginal glosses related to the text throughout, although some of these have been lost due to cropping. There are...
Dates:
?11th century.
Microfilm of 13th century manuscript, 'The Rosslyn Missal'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.216
Dates:
13th century.
Microfilm of 15th-century manuscript of the 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ', a translation by Nicholas Love of the Pseudo-Bonaventure 'Meditationes Vitae Christi'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.833
Dates:
1445-1465.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, the 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ', a translation by Nicholas Love of the Pseudo-Bonaventure 'Meditationes Vitae Christi'.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.78
Dates:
1445 – 1465.
Microfilm of French manuscript containing all of the epigrams of Martial, and of the Auchinleck manuscript.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
French manuscript, 9th century, containing all of the epigrams of Martial (Adv.MS.18.3.1);
Auchinleck manuscript, 1st half of 14th century, a compilation of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces (Adv.MS.19.2.1).
Dates:
9th century, 1st half of 14th century.
Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.658
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Fragment of a Gaelic manuscript, 15th century, containing scholastic texts (Adv.MS.72.1.7);Manuscript, ?14th-?19th century, containing a commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates in Gaelic and Latin (Adv.MS.72.1.10);Medical manuscript, ?16th century, in Gaelic written by Feargus Ó Caiside (Adv.MS.72.1.11);Medical manuscript, 16th century, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine,...
Dates:
?14th century-?19th century.
Microfilm of late 12th-century manuscript, 'Panormia' of Ivo, Bishop of Chartres; with two diagrams of consanguinity, and short excerpts of Pope Alexander III.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1387
Dates:
Late 12th century.
Microfilm of manuscript containing death and other tales, with some religious texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.496
Dates:
15th century-16th century.
Microfilm of manuscript written in 1503, of 'De civitate Dei' of St Augustine
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.74
Dates:
1503.
Microfilm of ‘Moralia in Job’ of Pope Gregory, 15th century; and, ‘De Trinitate’ of St Augustine, 12th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.421
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
15th century manuscript, 'Moralia in Job' of Pope Gregory I (Adv.MS.18.2.6);
12th century manuscript, 'De Trinitate' of St Augustine (Adv.MS.18.2.7).
Dates:
12th century, 14th century.
Microfilm of patristic texts, written at the Irish Benedictine house at Regensburg, the main scribe was Marianus Scotus, founder of the Regensburg community.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1055
Dates:
1080, 1083.
Microfilm of the Auchinleck manuscript, a compilation of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.62
Dates:
1331-1340.
Microfilm of the Auchinleck manuscript, a compilation of Middle English verse, including romances and religious and historical pieces.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.842
Scope and Contents
A new master negative microfilm.
Dates:
1331-1340.
Microfilm of three Gaelic manuscripts of religious and medical texts.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.666
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘1467 MS.’ written by Dubhghall Albanach mac mhic Cathail and the Reverend John Beaton’s ‘Broad Book’, written by Ádhamh Ó Cuirnín, [circa 1425, circa 1467], (Adv.MS.72.1.1);
Manuscript, 16th century-17th century, containing a medical compendium, in Gaelic, asembled by the Mull Beatons (Adv.MS.72.1.2);
‘Materia medica’, 15th century, formerly belonging to the Beaton family of physicians (Adv.MS.72.1.3).
Dates:
15th century-17th century.
Reading-board, used for school-lessons, written in Morocco and inscribed with passages from the Koran.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.1.10
Dates:
Undated
‘Relligio Paradisi, being a compendious and impartialle account off the ryse and progresse off Christian relligion from its first institution in paradise’ by William Clerk.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.3.3
Scope and Contents
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.195) includes the reference: A.2.32.
Dates:
Late 17th century.
'Rosslyn missal', a manuscript written in Ireland probably for Down Cathedral, Downpatrick.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.19
Scope and Contents
Manuscript written in Ireland, probably for Down Cathedral in Downpatrick. Lawlor has dated the work as probably of the 13th or early 14th century based on palaeographic evidence. Henry and Marsh-Micheli have suggested the work could also be attributed to the 12th century based on the decoration. This manuscript is a missal of the English (pre-Sarum) type introduced into Ireland from the later 12th century, with a few archaic, possibly local, features. The missal appears to have...
Dates:
13th century.
Samaritan manuscript of a portion of the Book of Genesis (Genesis xvii, 1 to xxvii, 22), written by ab Hasda, son of Jacob the High Priest.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.24
Dates:
1892.
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
File
Identifier: MS.9153
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) The 'De consideratione' of St Bernard. Printed by J P Migne in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxii, 727-808. (Folio 2 verso).(ii) Four sermons of St Bernard on Luke I, 26-38. Printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxxiii, 55-88. (Folio 85).(iii) Hugh of St Victor, 'Soliloquium de arrha animae'. The prologue and 'confessio’ are in a shorter version than that printed in ‘Patrologia Latina’, volume clxxvi, 951-970. (Folio...
Dates:
13th century.