Illuminated manuscripts
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Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:
Satires by Juvenal, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 199
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Juvenal was an early second-century AD Roman poet. Although little else is known about his life, he is credited with having written sixteen satires. When first published, the satires were divided into five books, and in them Juvenal criticised the beliefs and morals of his contemporaries. Juvenal addresses many of the concerns in second-century Rome in his poems, including the tensions between non-Roman social climbers and Roman citizens, the preservation of existing social class, and the...
Dates:
late 15th century
Scholia by pseudo-Acro, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 200
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MS 200 contains a set of commentaries on works by the first-century BC Roman poet, Horace. This set of commentaries is known as the Scholia and it is attributed to pseudo-Acro. Acro, or Helenius Acron was a third-century AD Roman commentator who wrote on the works of Terence and Horace. The commentary ("Scholia") found in MS 200 was not attributed to Acro before the fifteenth century, so his authorship is...
Dates:
15th century
Shāh u darvīsh, 965 A.H., 1557-58 C.E.
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Identifier: Or Ms 469
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Shāh u darvīsh, also known as Shāh u gidā / gadā, (King and Beggar), is an allegorical mas̲navī by Badr al-Dīn Hilālī Jughatāʾī, also known as Astarābādī, (b. Astarābād, ca. 874 A.H. /1470 C.E.; d. Herat, 936 A.H. /1529 C.E.). Its treats an innocent love between a poor pupil of a seminary and his princely classmate.The text of the present copy begins:
ای وجود تو اصل هر موجود / هستی...
Dates:
965 A.H.; 1557-58 C.E.
Siḥr-i ḥalāl (Licit Magic), undated
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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
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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
Specimens of calligraphic styles of writing, 1570-1624 (approximate)
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Identifier: La.III.522
Scope and Contents
MS La.III.522 is a composite manuscript of late-sixteenth and/or early-seventeenth century pieces of calligraphy, assembled by a later collector. The bulk of the manuscript is a combination of two different calligraphic alphabets with sample-texts, which follow the aspect and structure of early-modern writing-books. One of these decorative alphabets is composed of gothic, knotwork intials, while the other is structured by Roman capital letters against backgrounds of delicate, swirling vines....
Dates:
1570-1624 (approximate)
Summa Confessionalis by Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, 1 September 1472
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Identifier: MS 77
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This book is usually known as Summa Confessionalis, Summula de Confessionis or simply Confessionale. It is a guidebook for confessors in the Catholic doctrine written by Antoninus of Florence (1389–1459), a Dominican friar, archbishop of Florence, and considered Saint in the Catholic Church. There are different versions of the book. It was a compilation of several treatises by Antoninus but it...
Dates:
1 September 1472
Summa contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas, 1 September 1466
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Identifier: MS 75
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15th century Italian manuscript of Thomas Aquinas's Summa contra Gentiles, also known as Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra Errores infidelium, among other names, originally written during circa 1259-1265. A theological treatise devoted to explaining core beliefs of the Catholic faith to infidels, and to providing a philosophical defense for arguments against the doctrine. This copy was done in Vigevano, Italy, by the...
Dates:
1 September 1466
The Regiment of Princes, by Thomas Hoccleve, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 202
Contents
Thomas Hoccleve was a English poet and goverment clerk in the Office of the Privy Seal in the first quarter of the 15th century. Hoccleve was author of several other works, but that contained in MS 202 is his 'Regiment of Princes', dedicated to Prince Henry, the future king Henry V. Given that the poem is dedicated to Henry V as 'Prince', and from some internal evidence in the poem, it is possible to date the composition of Hoccleve's original 'Regiment of Princes' to c. 1410-1413. MS 202 is...
Dates:
15th century
The Wode Psalter: Cantus (set 1); Tenor (set 1); Bassus (set 1), 1566
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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.
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Dates:
1566