Dialogues.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written compositions in which two or more characters are represented as conversing.
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Item
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.
15th-century manuscript containing 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Adrianus Carthusiensis, incorporating passages from the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.7.1
Scope and Contents
The place of production of this manuscript is unclear. The volume is the work of one scribe, in a hand which Nicholas Mann has described as a Germanic gothic bookhand. The work is written in one column of 27 lines to a page. Mann has dated this manuscript to the first half of the 15th century. The work itself contains an abridged and revised version of the second book of the 'De remediis utriusque fortunae', compiled from Petrarch's 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' and Adrianus...
Dates:
1st half of the 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
File
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.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.1
Scope and Contents
The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) ‘The Hunting of the Hare` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 973) (folio 1), followed by a mock sermon in prose (folio 7 verso) and nonsense verses (folio 10 verso) (the latter ‘The Index of Middle English Verse’, 3425, both printed in ‘Reliquiae Antiquae’, volume 1, pages 82-84). See ‘The “Hunting of the Hare” in the Heege Manuscript’. Written by Richard Heeg.(ii) `Sir Gowther` (‘The Index of Middle English Verse’,...
Dates:
Circa 1480.
Devotional work entitled at the argument (folio ii verso) `A Dialogue betweene a Gohstly [sic] father and his Penitent shewing how a spouse long sought for by a louing soule in many thinges at length is found in one`.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.7.14
Scope and Contents
The manuscript is apparently unpublished, and the identity of the author is not certainly known. The epistle dedicatory, dated 1624, is signed `Ed: Wol:`, which may possibly be the signature of Edward Wolley who was at that time a student at Cambridge and who eventually was appointed Bishop of Clonfert. The manuscript is not quite complete: a leaf, containing the first part of the epistle dedicatory, is torn out after folio i, and another, presumably blank, after folio ii; and two leaves,...
Dates:
Circa 1624.
Dialogue containing the basic articles of Christianity, translated into Gaelic by Alexander MacAulay (autograph).
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Identifier: Adv.MS.73.1.8
Dates:
1763.
Dialogue ‘De Oratoribus’, variously ascribed to Tacitus and to Quintilian, being pages 1183-1212 of a printed work, 'cum conjectures MS. D. Al. Cunninghamij [Alexander Cunningham], Hagae Comitum conscriptis vel potius collatis cum MS’.
Item
Identifier: MS.3400
Scope and Contents
The manuscript notes are all textual emendations.
Dates:
Late 17th century-early 18th century.
‘Libro de Libros’ and other theological dialogues, partly in verse, by A G Silveira.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MSS.23.4.5(i)-(viii)
Scope and Contents
‘Libro de Libros, donde se detesta todo lo contrario se cree y admite todo lo conforme al sacro Libro… Dialogos theologicos. Ynterlocutores, un sabio ministro reformado presidente; un doctor catholico Apostolico Romano; Un Turco Mahometano erudito; un Judio desapasionado. Por A.G.S. Silveyradas’.
The first five volumes consist of dialogues between the same personages ‘todo en versos jocoserios, para deleitar aprovechando’. The rest is in prose.
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Manuscript of 'Anticlaudianus' by Alain de Lille, written in England or northern France.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.18.5.3
Dates:
1st half of 13th century.
Manuscript of 'De oratore' and the 'Orator' by Cicero.
File
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 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch, written in 1442.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.4.6
Scope and Contents
The exact origin of this manuscript is unclear. Mann has suggested that it is written in a Germanic or Flemish gothic bookhand, and Kristeller has suggested a 'northern hand' for the work. The text is in a minuscule bookhand and is the work of one scribe. It has been written in double columns with 39 lines to a page.This manuscript contains a complete copy of Petrarch's 'De remediis utriusque fortune'. There are two indices before the work itself; one numerical and one...
Dates:
1442.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, 'De vero et falso bono' of Bartolomeo Platina in the hand of Bartolomeo Sanvito.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.835
Dates:
1471-1472.
Microfilm of letter, [1821, of after], of James Hogg; and, manuscripts, [1825-1832], of parts of ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ in the hands of James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, and John Wilson.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1101
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
‘Letter to a friend in London; containing observations on the memoir of himself written by James Hogg ... and prefixed to a late edition of the "Mountain Bard"’, (Edinburgh, 1821) by George Goldie, [1821, of after] (MS.3369);
Manuscripts, [1825-1832], of parts of ‘Noctes Ambrosianae’ in the hands of James Hogg, John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, and John Wilson. (MS.4854).
Dates:
[1821, of after-1832].
Microfilm of manuscript, produced in 1442, 'De remediis utriusque fortunae' of Petrarch.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1138
Dates:
1442.
Two manuscripts of Sir James Frazer of Brea.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.5.6
Dates:
2nd half of 17th century.