Illuminated manuscripts
Subject
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Or Ms 732: Siḥr-i ḥalāl (Licit Magic), undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 732
Scope and Contents
This is a fragment of Siḥr-i ḥalāl (Licit Magic), a Persian Sufi allegory in the masnavī style (composed in rhyming couplets), by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf Ahlī Shīrāzī (858-942 A.H./ 1454-1535 or 1536 C.E.). The volume is written in fine nasta‘līq and on hand-coloured (orange, pink) or marbled paper with a polychrome frontispiece and headings and frames in gold throughout. It is in a later binding...
Dates:
undated
Single page of a musical manuscript with illustrations, 1600
Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/18-0063/1
Scope and Contents
Single page from a musical manuscript - possibly an antiphonary. There is an illustration on the top left representing Saint Peter holding a key. The margins are decorated with cherubs and floral motives. The words under the music read as follows: Nunc scio vere quia misit dominus angelum suum, et eripuit me de manu herodis et...A note on the back of the page indicates a Spanish origin: Este libro mando acer la Madre...
Dates:
1600
The Scottish Psalter, 1566, Wode's MS, illustrated Vol. I. Tenor; II.Treble; III. Bass, 1566
Item
Identifier: La.III.483
Scope and Contents
Illustrated Scottish metrical psalter in three volumes dated 1566, on paper, that belonged to Thomas Wode, vicar of St Andrews. These are the first three partbooks of the first set of the work known as 'The Wode Psalter', and contains the cantus, tenor and bassus. For a more detailed description, see the following website: http://www.wode.div.ed.ac.uk
Dates:
1566
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