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Theology

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'Trimogestus ad Asclepium et Hammonam et Ermium' [incomplete], also known as Asclepius, 12th century

 Part
Identifier: MS 16/ff. 192r-198r
Scope and Contents This section of the manuscript contains the Asclepius, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, but probably by Apuleius. (Virtually all literature ascribed to the name Hermes Trismegistus is incorrectly attributed. Individual works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus are authorised under the title in Library of Congress authority files.) The text is in fact a dialogue between Hermes Trismegistus and Asclepius on cosmological and theological ideas. It is thought to...
Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including ten texts

Vita Crysty (Vol. 2) by Ludolph of Saxony, 16th century

 Item
Identifier: MS 22
Contents Vita Chrysty is a sixteenth-century English translation of Ludolph of Saxony's Vita Christi from the second half of the fourteenth century. The original text by Ludolph of Saxony includes a biography of Christ, as well as moral and spiritual instruction and prayers. In this, Ludolph combined the work from over sixty earlier Christian writers. The influence and popularity of Ludolph of Saxony's original text is demonstrated by...
Dates: 16th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts