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Western -- Europe

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: External Id = sh 95003677,Created For =

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Excerpt - Folio 19
Excerpt - Folio 19

Western Medieval Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS
Scope and Contents This collection contains 275 medieval manuscript books and c. 45 fragments which have been donated to, and purchased by the University in the course of its history. These are all books and fragments written by hand, from the early 11th to the 16th centuries. Many are finely illuminated and decorated. The collection is mainly composed of bibles and liturgical texts, books of hours, treatises of theology and philosophy, legal and medical works, examples of pre-Reformation Scottish music,...
Dates: early 11th-16th centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections