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Aurora by Petrus Riga, 13th century

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Identifier: MS 20/ff. 1r-77v

Contents The Aurora, written by the medieval French poet Petrus Riga (c. 1140 – 1209), is an allegorical commentary on the Bible composed in elegiac couplets. The copy of the text preserved in this manuscript is incomplete at the beginning. The text is divided according to the books of the Bible.Exodus: starts on f. 1r with the words Hic sacra digna deo fiunt, hic crimina mundant (corresponding to v....

Dates: 13th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Author catalogue, 17th century

Item — Volume EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/1/Da.1.1

Identifier: EUA IN1/ADS/LIB/1/Da.1.1

Scope and Contents

'Catalogus librorum in bibleotheca Universitatis Edinensis secundum Auctorum nomina ordine alphabetica digestos. No. 1'. At the end there are instructions on how to use the telescope and microscope.

Dates: 17th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Baston, William. Villielmi Bastone A[ ] in Bellum de Banockburne. Carmen, Late 16th to early 17th century

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Identifier: De.3.19

Scope and Contents

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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Beginning of Glossa aurea Johannis Monachi Cardinalis in Sextum Decretalium, by Cardinal Jean Lemoine, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 147/ff. 130r-131r

Contents It is difficult to identify and describe the contents of these two folios. The hand is difficult to read, but at the top of f. 127r, the words Jo. Monachi Prohemium are possibly discernable. Johannes Monachus, also known as Cardinal Jean Lemoine, produced a commentary around 1301-2 on the 'Sixth Book of the Decretals', a codification of Canon law from 1298. The title of 'Sixth Book' refers to the five books of earlier compilations of decretals produced in...

Dates: 15th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Bellum Jugurthinum, 1462

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Identifier: MS 190/ff. 43r-127v

Contents The second work by Sallust contained in MS 190 is Bellum Jugurthinum. This work covers the rebellion against Rome by the king of Numidia (northern Africa), Jugurtha, in 112-105 BC. Sallust describes the rise to power of Gaius Marius (who defeated Jugurtha) and his attack on the ruling Roman elite. In this context, like in his De coniuratione Catiline, Sallust reveals his populist view of the social and political turmoil...

Dates: 1462

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Biblia Abbreviata [Bible. Latin], 12th century

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Identifier: MS 16/ff. 1r-108v

Contents This section of the manuscript is a Biblia Abbreviata, an abbreviated Bible.In this manuscript the contents and order of the Bible are as follows: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Judges, 4 Kings, Chronicles, Prologue to Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah to Zechariah, part of Esdras, Ecclesiasticus Sapiential, Job, Tobit, Maccabees, Evanglia, Acts, Canonical Epistles, Apocrypha, Zechariah, Malachi, Epistles of Paul,...

Dates: 12th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections