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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)
ff. 3v-4r
ff. 3v-4r

MS 2: Biblia Sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], c 1300

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Identifier: MS 2
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate. It also contains the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum ('Interpretations of the Hebrew names'), a list, mostly in alphabetical order, of Hebrew names found in the Bible, attributed to Stephen Langton (died 1228); each Hebrew name is accompanied by a short explanation in Latin.At the beginning of Nehemiah, a second hand has added the numeral for 'second'...
Dates: c 1300
ff. 170v-171r
ff. 170v-171r

MS 4: Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century

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Identifier: MS 4
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the text of the Vulgate, but incomplete. It omits: the prologue to the Pentateuch, part of the first chapter of Genesis, sections of Isaiah (ch. 61:11-66:9), First Maccabees (ch. 14:48-16), Second Maccabees (1:1-14), and of Revelation (2:24 to the end of the book). The...
Dates: 13th century
ff. 3v-4r
ff. 3v-4r

MS 5: Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century

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Identifier: MS 5
Scope and Contents This manuscript contains the text of the Vulgate for the Old Testament and part of the Gospel of Saint Matthew (from the beginning to 18:34). It omits the Psalms, but it includes First Esdras, a different version of the canonical Book of Ezra, which was ultimately rejected by the Western Church since it is not present in the Hebrew Bible; it still survives in several copies of the...
Dates: 13th century
ff. 162v-163r
ff. 162v-163r

MS 6: Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century

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Identifier: MS 6
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate with the exclusion ofe Psalms. It also contains the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum ('Explanations of the Hebrew names'), a list (mostly in alphabetical order) of Hebrew names found in the Bible, attributed to Stephen Langton (died 1228); each name is accompanied by a short explanation in Latin.The Prayer of Salomon is...
Dates: 13th century
ff. 3v-4r
ff. 3v-4r

MS 8: Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], c 1260

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Identifier: MS 8
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate. The order of books of the Old Testament is unusual: chapter 15 of Leviticus is found at the end of the book of Esther with an explanatory rubric; Lamentations and Baruch precede Jeremiah instead of coming after it; the Letter of Jeremiah,...
Dates: c 1260
f. 100v
f. 100v

MS 10: New Testament [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century

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Identifier: MS 10
Contents The manuscript contains the New Testament. The text between Book of Revelation chapter 17, verse 8 to First Letter of Peter chapter 2, verse 13 is missing. The manuscript includes the apocryphal Letter to the Laodiceans (f. 253r). A letter written "to the Laodiceans" or "from Laodicea" (depending on the different interpretation of the Latin text) is mentioned in the ...
Dates: 13th century

MS 11: New Testament and Wisdom Books [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 14th century

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Identifier: MS 11
Scope and Contents The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament according to the Vulgate. The four canonical Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation are preceded by prologues. The prologues of the Gospels belong to the monarchian tradition, so called because it relates to the monarchian doctrine, which saw God as one person. They accompany several extant copies of the Vulgate, although their text is not derived from...
Dates: 14th century
Excerpt - Folio 19
Excerpt - Folio 19

MS 12: Four Gospels [Bible. Gospels], 11th century

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Identifier: MS 12
Contents The manuscript contains the text of the four Gospels according to the Vulgate.Prologues: start on f. 1v. They consists of three prologues: the first is the letter Saint Jerome wrote to Pope Damasus and which acts as prologue to all four Gospels, starting with the words Novum opus facere me cogis (ff. 1v-4r); the second prologue, taken from Saint Jerome's 'Commentary to the Gospel of Saint Matthew', begins with the words ...
Dates: 11th century

MS 14: Saint John's Gospel (glossed) [Bible. John. Latin. Vulgate], late 12th century

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Identifier: MS 14
Contents The manuscript contains the gospel of Saint John according to the text of the Vulgate and a set of glosses [i.e. annotations and comments] to the whole text. These include both marginal and interlinear glosses. The text is not complete, but ends at John 19:, verse 36.The gospel is preceded by the monarchian prologue, so called because it relates to the monarchian doctrine, which saw God as one person. It accompanies several extant copies of the Vulgate, although its text is not...
Dates: late 12th century

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Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 35
Gherardo, da Cremona, 1113 or 1114-1187 (translator of Arabic works into Latin) 3
Black, William Henry, 1808-1872 (antiquary and assistant keeper of the Record Office) 2
Hrabanus, Maurus, 784?-856 (Archbishop of Mainz) 2
Langton, Stephen, d 1228 (Archbishop of Canterbury) 2
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Abbaye de Saint-Claude (Saint-Claude, France) (c 425-1742) (Benedictine monastery) 1
Abbazia di Santa Giustina (Padua, Italy) (Benedictine abbey) 1
Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds 1
Aikman, John, fl 1692 (Donor to Edinburgh University Library) 1
Albertanus, of Brescia, fl 12th century (author of Latin treatises and sermons) 1
Alexander, de Villa Dei, 1175-1240 (French author, teacher, poet and Latin scholar) 1
Andrew, Bishop of Orkney, 1476-1503 1
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109 1
Anselm, of Laon, d 1117 (French theologian) 1
Antoninus, Saint, Archbishop of Florence, 1389-1459 1
Avicenna, 980-1037 (Persian physician, astronomer, thinker and writer) 1
Balcanquhall , Walter, 1586?-1645 (royalist and son of Walter Balcanquhall the divine) 1
Balcanquhall, Walter, 1548-1616 (presbyterian divine) 1
Banke, Richard, b 1524 (of Whixley, Yorke) 1
Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621 (Italian Jesuit and Cardinal of the Catholic Church) 1
Bernard, of Parma, d 1266 (Italian jurist) 1
Bibliotheca Reisachiorum (library of the Carmelite cloister at Rosenheim) 1
Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 1
Brito, William, fl 1100-1199 (English clergyman, Order of Franciscan Monks) 1
Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (Italian humanist, historian and statesman) 1
Campano, Giannantonio, Bishop, 1429-1477 (writer of Latin poetry and orations) 1
Campbell, John, 1762-1834 (1st Marquess of Breadalbane ) 1
Carmelites 1
Carre, Andreas, fl 16th century 1
Catholic Church 1
Catholic Church (Title of work: Decretales Gregorii IX.) 1
Charters, Laurence, 1625-1700 (Scottish minister and theology professor in Edinburgh) 1
Cochran, John, d c 1844 (bookseller) 1
Colville, John, fl 1654 (graduate of Edinburgh University) 1
Des Clets family, fl 15th century (Genevois Province. Duchy of Savoy) 1
Douglas, Archibald, 1653-1712 (1st Earl of Forfar | Scottish nobleman and politician) 1
Drummond, William, of Logiealmond, Sir, 1770?-1828 (Scottish diplomat, MP, poet and philosopher) 1
Drury, Henry, 1778-1841 (clasical scholar and bibliophile) 1
Dunbar, Patrick, fl 1532 (succentor of Moray) 1
Eleanor, of Scotland, Archduchess of Austria, 1433-1480 (daughter of James I of Scotland) 1
Erskine, James, 1722-1796 (Lord Barjarg and Alva | Scottish lawyer) 1
Fairlie, James, fl 1589 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
Giovanni, da Udine, d 1366 (Franciscan friar from Mortegliano) 1
Gordoun, Alexander, 1516-1574 (bishop-elect of Moray and administrator of the diocese of Caithness) 1
Gray, Charles, fl 1684 (merchant in Edinburgh) 1
Harryes, John, fl 1505 (sheriff of the town and county of Bristol) 1
Haymo, of Halberstadt, d 853 (Bishop of Halberstadt) 1
Henderson, William, fl 1667-1684 (Librarian, University of Edinburgh) 1
Horace, 65 BC- 8 BC (Roman poet) 1
Inglis, Esther, c 1570-1624 (Scottish calligrapher) 1
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d 636 (scholar and Archbishop of Seville) 1
Ives, John, 1751-1776 (Suffolk herald extraordinary) 1
John, of Gaddesden, ? 1280-1361 (English doctor) 1
Juvenal, fl c 60-127 (Roman poet) 1
Kello, Bartilmo, c 1564-1631 (Scottish government clerk) 1
Kloster St. Matthias (Trier, Germany). Bibliothek (Benedictine monastery) 1
Leonini of Padua, fl 1332-1360 (Augustinian scholar) 1
Lucelle (Abbey : Lützel, Switzerland) 1
Lumsden, Charles, approximately 1561-1630 (minister at Duddingston) 1
Maffei, Scipione, marchese, 1675-1755 (Italian writer and antiquarian ) 1
Manzoli family, fl 1503 (of Bologna) 1
Mareuil, A, fl 15th century (of Perigord) 1
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837 (Scottish author, educationist and priest) 1
Mosman, George, 1669?-1707 or 8 (Edinburgh bookseller and printer) 1
Negrini, Girolamo, fl 1840s (Librarian of the library of the Costabili family, Ferrara) 1
Nicolas, of Neridono, Brother, fl 1472 (Dominican monk) 1
Otto von Lonsdorf, d 1265 (Bishop of Passau) 1
Palgrave, Francis, Sir, 1788-1861 1
Paul, of Venice, c 1370-1428 (scholastic philosopher, theologian, and logician) 1
Peter, of Eboli, fl 1196 (medieval Italian poet) 1
Petrus, Comestor, fl 12th century (French theological writer) 1
Philippus, de Homodeis, fl 1644 (scribe) 1
Pierre, de Lancrau, fl 1561-1598 (Bishop of Lombez ) 1
Pseudo-Acro 1
Reading Abbey (Reading, England) 1
Reagh, Justin MacCarthy-, 1744-1811 (bibliophile) 1
Reyd, John, fl 1537 (Chancellor in Aberdeen) 1
Robertson, John, Reverend, d 1691 (Minister of Old Greyfriars) 1
Roucliffe , Brian, Sir, d 1494 (judge and baron of the exchequer) 1
Roucliffe family, fl 15th-16th century 1
Roverella, Bartolomeo, 1406-1476 (Archbishop of Ravenna ) 1
Saint-Geniès, Bertrando di, c 1260-1350 (patriarch of Aquileia) 1
Saint-Ruf Abbey (1158) (Valence, France) 1
Salandus, Petrus Antonius, of Reggio, fl 1503 (scribe) 1
Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. (Roman historian and politician) 1
Serapion, Johannes , fl 860-899 (Syriac physician) 1
Smart, Jacobi, fl 1698 (manuscript owner) 1
Spelman, Henry, Sir, ? 1564-1641 (English antiquary) 1
Spens, James, Sir, 1571-1627 (Scottish adventurer and diplomat) 1
Stenhouse, Walter, 1597-1655 (rector of Darfield, Yorkshire) 1
Strabo, Walahfrid , c 807-849 (abbot of Reichenau) 1
Syon Abbey (Isleworth, London, England) (1415-c 1539) 1
Thomas, Aquinas, ? 1225-1274 (Saint) 1
Turner, Dawson, 1775-1858 (English banker, botanist and antiquary) 1
Virgil, 70 B.C.-19 B.C. (Roman poet) 1
Viry family, fl 15th century (Genevois Province. Duchy of Savoy) 1
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