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'Algorismus' by Alexander of Villedieu, also known as Carmen de Algorismo
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Identifier: MS 215/ff. 1r-6r
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This section of the manuscript contains Carmen de Algorismo by Alexander of Villedieu (born c. 1175, also known Alexander de Villa Dei), a French Franciscan author, teacher, and poet, who wrote textbooks in verse, including Doctrinale Puerorum, for which he achieved some fame. The Carmen de Algorismo is a short treatise in verse on arithmetic. This version has extensive commentaries on the text...
Dates:
15th century
Anderson, Henry. Amaryllis ingrata, Late 16th to early seventeenth century
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Identifier: De.1.11/1
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Two copies of Henry Anderson's poem "Amaryllis ingrata". Each done in a different hand.
Dates:
Late 16th to early seventeenth century
Anderson, Henry. Musarum querimonia, Late 16th to early 17th century
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Identifier: De.1.11/2
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Two copies of Henry Anderson's poem "Musarum querimonia". Each done in a different hand.
Dates:
Late 16th to early 17th century
Anticlaudianus by Alanus de Insulis, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 20/ff. 100r-121r
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The Anticlaudianus is a poem which illustrates nature's failure in creating the perfect man. Its author is Alanus de Insulis (also known as Alain de Lille, c. 1128 - 1202/03), French theologian and poet. He spent several years teaching in Paris; he was a very prolific author and famous for his wide knowledge.The text in this manuscript is preceded by the inscription Anticlaudianus Alani de Antiruffino in adifferent...
Dates:
13th century
Architrenius by John of Hauville, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 20/ff. 78r-99v
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The Architrenius is a Latin allegorical poem in hexameters, dedicated to Walter of Coutances, Archbishop of Rouen, in 1184. Little is know about its author, Johannes de Hauvilla: he was probably originary from the village of Hauville, near Rouen; at the time of the dedication of Architrenius, he was presumably alread a teacher of the cathedral school of Rouen.The poem is divided in nine books. It narrates the...
Dates:
13th century
Baston, William. Villielmi Bastone A[ ] in Bellum de Banockburne. Carmen, Late 16th to early 17th century
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Identifier: De.3.19
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This volume contains a copy of William Baston's poem on the Battle of Bannnockburn, with some other verses on Bannockburn. Baston was an English friar and poet that Edward II brought north with him to write a poem commemorating his expected triumph over the Scots. Baston was captured and Robert the Bruce decided that his ransom should be a poem celebrating the Scots victory.
Dates:
Late 16th to early 17th century
Eglisham, George. George Eglis[ham] aduersus Andreae Meluini cauillum in aram regiam epigrammata prophylactica., Early 17th century
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Identifier: De.1.12/12
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This is a reply by the Scottish physician and poet George Eglisham to the Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer Andrew Melville's Epigramma in aram Regiam ... This poem was published in George Eglisham's Duelleum Poeticum. London, 1618.
Dates:
Early 17th century
MS 136: Works on Latin prosody by John Seward, c 1410-1422
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Identifier: MS 136
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MS 136 is a volume of works by the fifteenth-century London schoolmaster, John Seward (or Seguarde). Seward wrote about a dozen short treatises on Latin prosody during the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V, and these works were primarly known and examined in a manuscript of Merton College, Oxford, thought to be unique. However, examination of MS 136 reveals that the Merton manuscript is a slightly later, and finer copy of the original text contained in MS 136. In fact, MS 136 is most probably...
Dates:
c 1410-1422
MS 176: De balneis Puteolanis [incomplete], by Peter of Eboli, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 176
Contents
MS 176 is a short volume with only a small abount of text combined with large, half-page illustrations. It contains sections VI-XXI of Peter of Eboli's thirty-five sectional didactic poem on the medicinal thermal baths in the region of Campania. Peter wrote his poem on bathing in the last years of the 12th century, and dedicated it to the emperor, probably the Holy Roman Emperor at the time, Henry VI.The text begins with the sixth section of Peter of Eboli's text, on f. 1r: ...
Dates:
15th century
MS 180: Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon [incomplete], 13th century
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Identifier: MS 180
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MS 180 contains a part of the Alexandreis, an epic poem by twelfth-century author, Walter of Châtillon. Walter's epic of Alexander the Great is written in hexameter verse and became a popular text in the Middle Ages. Written in the 1180s after Walter returned to France following his degree in law at the university of Bologna, the Alexandreis was requested by William, Archbishop of Rheims. This connection is explicit in the...
Dates:
13th century