Fragments.
Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:
Two contiguous vellum fragments, together forming a rectangular fragment of a formal document probably of French provenance., ?15th century or 16th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark Bi.7.27) of ‘Traite des Armes’ (Paris, 1678), by Louis de Gaya.
Two contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the lower part of a bifolium, possibly from a philosophical work, the visible portion of the text apparently relating to vision and imagination., 14th century.
Probably about half of the bifolium survives: the width of each leaf is 7 inches, and the combined heights of the fragments, which have been cut horizontally, is about 5 inches. The text is written in double columns.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.9.a) of ‘Μέγα ἐτυμολογικον’ (Venetiis, 1349).
Two contiguous vellum fragments, together forming the upper part of a bifolium of an unidentified commentary on the Book of Proverbs., 14th century.
Two discontiguous parchment fragments apparently from the same leaf of a noted Breviary., 15th century.
The fragments contain the end of the office of Matins and the beginning of Lauds and are connected with Saint Stephen, although apparently not from the offices for his feasts. The name of Saint Lucian is also mentioned.
Two discontiguous strips of vellum (one vertical, the other horizontal) from an unidentified formal document of French provenance., 16th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.51.g.1) of ‘Cantus Circaeus’ (Parisiis, 1582) and ‘De vmbris idearum’ (Parisiis, 1582), by Giordano Bruno.
Two discontiguous vellum fragments from the lower part of an unidentified formal document written in what appears to be a British hand., ?17th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a volume of pamphlets (pressmark 1.204) commencing with ‘Moses and Aaron’ (London, 1641), by Thomas Godwyn, where they had been used as binding strips.
Two folios, numbered ccxlii and ccxlix, probably from a late sixteenth-century gradual., ?Late 16th century.
On folio ccxlii are chants for the sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion; and the beginning of the Introit for the seventh Sunday after Pentecost. On folio ccxlix are the concluding words of the Communion for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, and the Introit and Gradual of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.
Square notation on a five-lined stave; bar lines at irregular intervals. Blue and red initials with flourishes.
Two fragments from the Temporale of a missal of Scottish provenance., Late 12th century.
Two fragments, undated, of manuscripts of articles by James Grant., [Before 1888.]
The first article is entitled 'Scotland. Picturesque Europe No. 44', and discusses 'Border castles and counties'. The second, beginning on folio 9, is part of an article on Scottish politics, of which the title page is missing. Both articles appear to be unpublished.
Two horizontal vellum strips, presumably contiguous, from a formal document apparently of 16th-century English provenance, possibly relating to persons and properties in a parish of Shipton; with two paper fragments., 16th century, early 18th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.107.a) of “Queen Anna`s new world of words” (London, 1611), by John Florio.
On one of the paper fragments, both of which had been used as endpapers, part of an inscription, "... Pryce 04:00:00 Tho Pringle", written apparently in an early 18th-century hand, can be read.
Two letters, 1893, of William Anderson to his colleague Hugh Goldie; fragments of his journal, 1889; copy of letters, 1841, of Mrs Margaret Cowan, Jamaica, to his aunt; and copies of poems., 1841-1893.
Two narrow strips of vellum which appear to be part of a partly printed formal document referring to persons in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex., ?16th century or 17th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark A.65.a.5) of ‘Description exacte des iles de l`archipel, et de quelques autres adjacentes (etc.)’ (Amsterdam, 1703), by Olfert Dapper.
The second fragment is almost completely blank.
Two parchment fragments apparently from the same folio volume, presumably a missal or breviary., 15th century.
The text is written in double columns, with rubrics in scarlet, and initials alternately in blue and scarlet.
The fragments were pasted together and used as a single binding strip in a copy (pressmark Ao.6.6) of ‘Stirpium Adversaria Nova’ (London, 1570) by Petrus Pena and Mathias de L’Obel.
Two separate and apparently independent fragments of manuscript in Gaelic bearing different portions of the same text, the commentary on the Aphorisms of Damascenus.
Two short, nearly contiguous vertical strips of vellum from what appears to be a French legal document., 16th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.50.f) of ‘M. Acci Plauti comoediae viginti’ (Lugduni Batavorum, 1593).
Two small fragments of the manuscript of ‘The siege of Malta’ by Sir Walter Scott., 1831-1832.
Two small parchment fragments, each from a different formal document of French provenance., 16th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark A.63.c.18) of ‘De origine et amplitudine ciuitatis Veronae’ (Veronae, 1540), by Torellus Sarayna.
Two small unrelated vellum fragments, both apparently from formal documents, the larger fragment mentioning the name of a deceased John Buzzard, and the smaller apparently referring to the sixth year of James (?VI and I; that is, 1572 or 1608)., ?Early 17th century.
The fragments were recovered from a composite volume of works by Martin Luther (pressmark L.157.h.3) beginning with his ‘Enarratio in tres Prophetas’ (Argentorati, 1536), where they had been used as binding strips.
Two strips of vellum, one a fragment of the lower part of an unidentified formal document in French, probably in a 16th-century hand; the other blank., ?16th century.
The fragments were recovered from a copy (pressmark K.16.e) of ‘De situ orbis’ (Basileae, 1356) by Dionysius Periegetes, where they had been used as binding strips.
Two unrelated parchment fragments; one apparently the top of a leaf from a work, possibly a volume of sermons, quoting John, 1, 12, and Exodus, 33, 6; the other apparently the top of a leaf of unidentified provenance, containing writing in a 14th-century hand., 14th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a copy (pressmark K.58.f) of ‘Argonauticon Libri VIII’ (Antverpiae, 1565), by Valerius Flaccus (edited by L Carrio).
Two unrelated vellum fragments., 15th century, ?late 16th century.
The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark K.5.f) of ‘Excerpta ex Tragoediis et Comoediis Graecis’ (Parisiis, 1626), by Hugo Grotius, where they had been used as binding strips. That recovered from the front of the volume is part of a formal document, possibly a late 16th-century precept of clare constat, mentioning Tamworth and persons and places nearby. That recovered from the back appears to be part of a list of names in a 15th-century hand.
Two vellum fragments consisting of the outer margins and the ends of lines of possibly consecutive leaves from an apparently religious or theological work., Late 13th century or early 14th century.
The fragments had been used as binding strips in a composite volume (pressmark K.41.f.1) containing ‘Aethiopicorum libri X’ ([Heidelberg,] 1596), by Heliodorus, and another work.