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MS 107: Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts, 13th-14th century

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Identifier: MS 107
Contents Contains twenty-four texts, in two different hands. This manuscript was made in England and dates from the 13th-14th century; the texts are various religious tracts in Latin, Old French, and Middle English.Flyleaves: Unidentified Latin text and the start of a Contents list in a 17th-century handff. 1r-28v: De Miseria Condicionis Humane (On the wretchedness of the human condition) by Pope Innocent...
Dates: 13th-14th century

MS 181: Composite manuscript containing six texts, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 181
Contents Contains six texts, possibly written by two hands. The first four texts belong to a group of Latin textbooks largely used in schools during the Middle Ages, collectively known as Auctores octo morales ('Eight moral authors'). Catherine Borland erroneously attributes the second, third and fourth text (Liber Faceti docens mores hominum, Liber parabolarum and Liber...
Dates: 14th century

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Erskine, Charles, 1680-1763 (Lord Tinwald | Regent then Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh) 1
Erskine, James, 1722-1796 (Lord Barjarg and Alva | Scottish lawyer) 1
Totnes, George Carew, Earl of, 1555-1629 1