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Ars generalis ultima by Ramon Llull, 15th century
part
Identifier: MS 117/ff. 1r-10v
Contents
This section contains the Alphabetum of the Ars generalis ultima (sometimes called the Ars magna) by Ramon Llull. This is a religious philosophical work thought to be intended to convert Muslims to the Christian faith through logic and reason.The Alphabetum is a central part of the so-called Tenary formulation of the ...
Dates:
15th century
Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin and of Saint Ninian), 15th century
Part
Identifier: MS 42/ff. 7r-130r
Scope and Contents
This section of MS 42 is a 15th-century Book of Hours. Books of Hours, as private devotional texts, were very personal medieval books. This particualar text contains the unusual Hours of Saint Ninian. Saint Ninian as a historical figure is shrouded in mystery. He perhaps lived in the 5th-6th centuries, in Whithorn in south-west Scotland. While the historical figure of Ninian is vague, the chief medieval account comes from the 12th century, and in this Saint...
Dates:
15th century
De faciebus mundi by William of Auvergne, 13th century
part
Identifier: MS 115/ff. 79r-87v
Contents
This section of the manuscript contains De faciebus mundi (The Faces of the World) by William of Auvergne (Guillaume d'Auvergne), a French theologian and philosopher who was writing in the first half of the 13th century.It starts on f. 79r with the words Veritas evangelica praedicatoribus and ends on f. 86v with et diligenter exercetur illuminatur. Laus...
Dates:
13th century
De Trinitate by Richard of Saint Victor
part
Identifier: MS 109/ff. 1r-64v
Contents
This section of the manuscript contains De Trinitate by Richard of Saint Victor, a Scottish canon regular, philosopher, and theologian, active in the 12th century. De Trinitate is one of Richard’s greatest works. It is a study on dogmatic theology, which aims to show the coherence of Christian revelation and reason. It was probably written while Richard was a prior of the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor, in Paris, between...
Dates:
14th century
Degree certificate from the University of Edinburgh, 16 September 1809
Item — Box CLX-A-1596
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0049
Scope and Contents
This is a degree certificate from the University of Edinburgh awarded to Robert Anderson, a minister of Edinburgh, for his Doctorate of Divinity, on the 16th of September 1809. On vellum. Signed by Principal of the University George Husband Baird, as well as other prominent professors at the time, including Alexander Munro Senior (Secundus) and Tertius, Thomas Charles Hope, Andrew Duncan, James Gregory, John Playfair, John Leslie, et al.
Dates:
16 September 1809
Fragment of a Bible, late 11th-12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/XXXVIII
Scope and Contents
Writing
Bifolium from a lectern Bible, Book of Macchabees, probably late 11th-12th century. Could possibly be English.
Writing
Neat bookhand.
Dates:
late 11th-12th century
Fragment of an English Grail, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/VI
Scope and Contents
One leaf of an English 12th century Grail. Contains the end of the Communion of Friday after Ash Wednesday, and then the service until the beginning of the Tract on the first Sunday in Lent. A modern hand has taken extensive notes in the margins and bottom of f. 1r. Illumination The contents are common to most Latin rites except the Psalm Domine, refugium factus es, which is found in the Missals of Durham and St. Albans, and is substituted...
Dates:
12th century
Fragment of lectionary, 11th century
Part
Identifier: MS 138/f. 1r
Contents
Writing
This seems to be a fragment from an 11th-century lectionary, a book that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian worship on a given day or occasion.
Writing
This section is in an earlier hand than the rest of the manuscript.
Dates:
11th century
MS 10: New Testament [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century
Item
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
Item
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