Manuscripts, Medieval -- France
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in France.
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
Book of Hours (Use of Troyes), mid 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 307
Contents
MS 307 is a book of hours (Use of Troyes) from the mid-15th century. It was made in France, for the diocese of Troyes.ff. 1r-12v: A full calendar in French. Alternating gold, blue and red ink for effect.ff. 13r-18r: Sequence of the Four Gospels. Prayer begins on f. 14v with Protector in te sperantium...ff. 18v-21v: ...
Dates:
mid 15th century
Breviary, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 25
Contents
This manuscript is a Breviary, originating in France and dating from the late 15th century. Breviaries contain the official set of prayers that mark days in the Catholic calendar. This Breviary appears to have been written for Angers and is incomplete, lacking the whole of the temporale, the list of movable feasts, mostly keyed to Easter, and as opposed to the sanctorale, which consists of the fixed feast days....
Dates:
late 15th century
Collection of sermons entitled Sermones provinciales, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 96
Contents
This manuscript contains 92 sermons in several different hands.A title on f. 1r reads: Incipiunt Sermones Provinciales. Dominica prima in Adventu Domini. The text starts on f. 1r with the following opening words: Hora est jam nos de sompno surgere. Est triplex sompnus ignorantie. And ends on f. 106v with the following words: salientes magnas foveas uno [?] ...
Dates:
13th century
Composite manuscript containing four texts, 12th-13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 123
Contents
This major text contained in this manuscript is Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages, which was probably originally written around the start of the 7th century. It is accompanied by other related works in this manuscript, which dates from the 12th or 13th century and was probably made in Lucelle, France. The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-144v: Etymologiae by Isidore...
Dates:
12th-13th century
Composite manuscript containing four texts (Virgil), c 1449
Item
Identifier: MS 195
Contents
Contains four texts, in the same hand.Ff. 1r-18r: The Bucolics by VirgilFf. 19r-63v: The Georgics by VirgilFf. 65r-267r: The Aeneid by VirgilFf. 267v-280r: Aeneidos Liber XIII (or Supplementum), the...
Dates:
c 1449
Composite manuscript containing three texts, 1459
Item
Identifier: MS 124
Contents
This manuscript was created in 1459 by a German scribe, Marquard Rode, in Paris. It contains versions of philosophical texts complied by Antonius Andreas and based on the work of Duns Scotus. Antonius Andreas, or Antonio Andrés, was born around 1280 and died around 1320; he was a Spanish Franciscan theologian, and a pupil of Duns Scotus. Duns Scotus, or John Duns, was an important philosopher-theologian, originally from Scotland. The last section seems to be a later addition.The...
Dates:
1459
Composite manuscript including four texts, mostly the Decretales Gregorii IX et Innocentii IV, 2nd half of the 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 300
Contents
MS 300 contains four texts bound together, in different hands. It includes a copy of the Decretales Gregorii IX (Decretals of Pope Gregory IX) ordered by Pope Gregory IX, and put together by his chaplain and confessor, Raymond of Peñafort, and a copy of the Decretales Innocentii IV (Decretals of Innocent IV). Verses have been added to the volume in blank space during the 13th century, as well as a poem of twenty-one long lines...
Dates:
2nd half of the 13th century
Composite manuscript including six texts, early 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 80
Contents
Contains six texts, written in several different hands.ff. 1r-6r: 'De Copia Verborum' by Seneca.ff. 6r-9v: Extracts of Terence, Seneca, Plautus, and Tullius.ff. 10r-150v: 'Summa de Vitiis'ff. 151r-170r: 'Sermones Dominicales fratris Johannis Aurelianis quondam cancellarii Parysiensis'ff. 170r-210v: 'Sermones Dominicales Fratris Ferrarii ordinis fratrum predicatorum regentis in theologia'ff. 211r-233v: 'Sermones super...
Dates:
early 14th century
Composite manuscript including six texts, 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 115
Contents
Contains six texts, all in the same hand. The texts relate to philosophy. This manuscript is probably English or French, and is from the 13th century. The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-23v: Dragmaticon philosophiae by William of Conchesff. 23v-27r: Imago Mundi by Honorius Augustodunensisff. 27r-29v: Liber differentia quae est inter spiritum et animam by...
Dates:
13th century
Decem tractatus astronomiae by Guido Bonatti, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 125
Contents
This manuscript was created in the 14th century, probably in England or France. It features work by Guido Bonatti, one of the most celebrated astrologers of the 13th century. He lived in Italy, served as an advisor to Frederick II, and was a mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. The manuscript contains Decem tractatus astronomiae (Ten Treatises on Astronomy), which are related to his Liber...
Dates:
14th century