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La.III.522: Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)

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Identifier: La.III.522
Scope and Contents MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....
Dates: 1570-1624 (approximate)

MS 16: Composite manuscript including ten texts, 12th century

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Identifier: MS 16
Scope and Contents This manuscript contains eleven texts bound together, in different hands. It is a 12-century manuscript, probably English. The different texts are listed below and detailed separately.ff. 1r-108v: 'Biblia Abbreviata'ff. 108v-143v: 'Testimoniorum Ysidori contra Judeos', also known as De fide catholica contra Iudaeos by Isidore of Sevilleff. 144r-150r: In Platonis Timaeum commentarius, a...
Dates: 12th century

MS 20: Composite manuscript including three texts, 13th century

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Identifier: MS 20
Scope and Contents Contains three texts, all in the same hand.ff.1r-77v: 'Aurora' by Peter Rigaff.78r-99v: 'Architrenius' by Johannes de Hauvillaff.100r-121r: 'Anticlaudianus' by Alanus de InsulisThe texts are described separately, under MS 20/ff. 1r-77v; MS 20/ff. 78r-99v; and MS 20/ff. 100r-121r. Writing and Illumination Well written in a small, clear, uniform hand, with ornamental initials. These are either...
Dates: 13th century

MS 23: Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 23
Contents The manuscript is a 15th-century composite containing works relating to virgin saints. It is German or Dutch. The works contained within it are detailed separately below.ff.1r-40v: Revelatio Nova Itineris et Passionis Undecim Milium Virginum Martyrum (The Passion of the Eleven Thousand Virgins). This text is related to Saint Ursula.ff.40v-72v: Vita et Legenda Beate Katherine Virginis (The Life and...
Dates: 15th century
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MS 27: Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century; early 15th century

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Identifier: MS 27
Contents Contains two texts bound together, in five different hands.The manuscript is a Sarum Breviary with a full Sarum Litany, and a Kalendar. This is in four different hands.Additionally, ff.ir-iiv and ff.231v-232v feature a Chronicle of Scottish History.The texts are described separately, under MS 27/ff. ir-iiv, 231v-232v and MS 27/ff. 1r-482v. Writing The script is good and...
Dates: early 14th century; early 15th century

MS 70: Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 70
Contents Contains two texts in the same hand.ff. 1r-91v: 'Commentum super Lamentationes Jeremie' (Commentary on the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah), by Hugh of Saint Victor.ff. 92r-183v: 'De Mistico Sompnio' (On the Dream of King Nebuchadnezzar), by Richard of Saint Victor.The texts are described separately, under MS 70/ff. 1r-91v; and MS 70/ff. 92r-183v. Writing A good 15th century Gothic hand, uniform and...
Dates: 15th century

MS 73: Composite manuscript including six texts, 10 October 1477

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Identifier: MS 73
Contents Contains six texts, all in the same hand.ff. 1r-11r: 'In Agenda Mortuorum apud Rationale Divinorum Officiorum'ff. 11v-12v: 'Sermo pro mortuis fratris Pauli de Cumis Ordin. Praedicatorum'f. 13r: 'Gregorius in libro moralium spiritualiter sic inquit de mortuis'f. 14v: 'De nece Apostolorum in quadam cronica sic legitur'ff. 15r-227r: 'Compendium Theologicae Veritatis' by Hugh Argentinensisff. 227v-233v: 'Praepulchra Miracula...
Dates: 10 October 1477

MS 76: Composite manuscript including two texts, 13th century

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Identifier: MS 76
Contents Contains two texts in the same hand.ff. 1v-86r: Books III and IV of 'Libri Quattuor Sententiarum' by Peter Lombard.ff. 87r-195r: 'Liber de Sacramentis' by an unknown author.The texts are described separately, under MS 76/ff. 1v-86r and MS 76/ff. 87r-195r. Writing A beautifully written manuscript in a uniform Gothic hand and very black ink, well spaced with good margins, now partially cropped, on fine...
Dates: 13th century

MS 80: Composite manuscript including six texts, early 14th century

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Identifier: MS 80
Contents Contains six texts, written in several different hands.ff. 1r-6r: 'De Copia Verborum' by Seneca.ff. 6r-9v: Extracts of Terence, Seneca, Plautus, and Tullius.ff. 10r-150v: 'Summa de Vitiis'ff. 151r-170r: 'Sermones Dominicales fratris Johannis Aurelianis quondam cancellarii Parysiensis'ff. 170r-210v: 'Sermones Dominicales Fratris Ferrarii ordinis fratrum predicatorum regentis in theologia'ff. 211r-233v: 'Sermones super...
Dates: early 14th century

MS 83: Composite manuscript including three texts by Albertanus of Brescia, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 83
Contents Contains three texts by Albertanus of Brescia, all three in the same hand.ff. 1r-67v: 'De amore et dilectione Dei et proximi et aliarum rerum et de forma vitae' by Albertanus of Brescia.ff. 67v-77r: 'De doctrina dicendi et tacendi' by Albertanus of Brescia.ff. 77r-112r: 'Liber consolationis et consilii' by Albertanus of Brescia.The text are described separately, under MS 83/ff. 1r-67v; MS 83/ff. 67v-77r; and MS 83/ff. 77r-112r....
Dates: 15th century

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Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 23
Erskine, James, 1722-1796 (Lord Barjarg and Alva | Scottish lawyer) 6
Kartause Erfurt (Carthusian charterhouse) 4
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 (translator of Arabic works into Latin) 2
Hagen, Johannes, 1415-1475 2
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Llull, Ramon, ? 1232-1316 (Catalan mystic, philosopher and poet) 2
Negrini, Girolamo, fl 1840s (Librarian of the library of the Costabili family, Ferrara) 2
Reading Abbey (Reading, England) 2
Terence, 185-159 BC (Roman playwright) 2
Abbazia di Santa Giustina (Padua, Italy) (Benedictine abbey) 1
Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds 1
Abbey of Kinloss (Cistercian) 1
Albertanus, of Brescia, fl 12th century (author of Latin treatises and sermons) 1
Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, 1476-1503 1
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109 1
Avicenna, 980-1037 (Persian physician, astronomer, thinker and writer) 1
Bibliotheca Reisachiorum (library of the Carmelite cloister at Rosenheim) 1
Carre, Andreas, fl 16th century 1
Carthusians (Catholic religious order) 1
Cassian, John, c 360-c 435 (monk and ascetical writer) 1
Cattaneo, Francisco, of Piacenza, fl 1477 (priest) 1
Colville, John, fl 1654 (graduate of Edinburgh University) 1
Drummond, William, of Logiealmond, Sir, 1770?-1828 (Scottish diplomat, MP, poet and philosopher) 1
Eleanor, of Scotland, Archduchess of Austria, 1433-1480 (daughter of James I of Scotland) 1
Falloppio, Gabriele, 1523-1562 (Italian priest and physician) 1
Faulkener, T, fl 1850 (Manuscript owner) 1
Florius, Franciscus, of Florence, fl 1447-1480 (scribe) 1
Galen, 129-c 200 (Greek physician and philosopher) 1
Geddie, William, d 1624 (Scottish scribe) 1
Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio, 1479-1552 (Italian poet and scholar) 1
Glaspulli, Robart, fl 1431 (former owner of MS 167) 1
Gray, Charles, fl 1684 (merchant in Edinburgh) 1
Harryes, John, fl 1505 (sheriff of the town and county of Bristol) 1
Herbert, W, fl 1850 (Manuscript owner) 1
Hutcheson, James, fl 1600-1699 (former owner of MS 167) 1
Inglis, Esther, c 1570-1624 (Scottish calligrapher) 1
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d 636 (scholar and Archbishop of Seville) 1
Justinian I, ? 483-565 (Emperor of the East) 1
Kello, Bartilmo, c 1564-1631 (Scottish government clerk) 1
Le Neve, Peter, 1661-1729 (English herald and antiquary) 1
Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869 (Italian Count, mathematician, inspector of libraries and book thief) 1
Lucelle (Abbey : Lützel, Switzerland) 1
Martin, Thomas, 1697-1771 (antiquarian and lawyer) 1
Mason, Samuel, fl 1773 (of Yarmouth, Norfolk) 1
Palgrave, Francis, Sir, 1788-1861 1
Pius II, 1405-1464 (Pope) 1
Pseudo-Llull, ? 1232-1316 (for works formerly attributed to Ramon Llull) 1
Roverella, Bartolomeo, 1406-1476 (Archbishop of Ravenna ) 1
Rössler, John , fl 1459 (scribe) 1
Saint-Victor (Abbey : Paris, France) 1
Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. (Roman historian and politician) 1
San Benedetto in Polirone (Monastery : San Benedetto Po, Italy) (Benedictine abbey) 1
San Giovanni in Canale (Dominican monastry: Piacenza, Italy) 1
Savile, Henry, 1568-1617 (collector of manuscripts) 1
Spelman, Henry, Sir, ? 1564-1641 (English antiquary) 1
Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 (English banker, botanist and antiquary) 1
Tyndall, John, fl 1531 (white friar) 1
Val-Saint-Martin (Monastery), Louvain 1
Virgil, 70 B.C.-19 B.C. (Roman poet) 1
Vrelant, Willem, fl 1449-1481 (Dutch book illuminator) 1
Wemme, Thomas, fl 16th century 1
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