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Manuscripts, Latin

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Latin.

Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:

MS 151: Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 151
Contents Contains nine texts bound together, in different hands.Of note, the endpaper at the beginning of the manuscript is an interesting fragment from an Antiphoner of the 9th or 10th century. The other endpaper is a textual fragment too, although from later that the 9th/10th centuries.ff. 1r-8v: Bull of Pope Honorius III to Saint Francis and the brothers of the Orderff. 9r-13r: Bull of Pope Gregory IXff. 14r-50r: Bull of Pope Nicholas III from 1279,...
Dates: 14th century
Front cover
Front cover

MS 152: Composite manuscript containing the Rule of Saint Benedict and various other texts, 1560

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Identifier: MS 152
Scope and Contents A composite manuscript connected with the Benedictine Monastery of San Lorenzo, in the Castello neighbourhood of Venice. The first text was commissioned by the Abbess Cipriana Michiel. The texts are preceded by a table of contents which appears to be an addition and which includes detailed heading for the first four texts (all written by the same hand). The table of contents starts on f. iiir. It is introduced by the rubric Al nome del nostro Signore Jesu Chisto....
Dates: 1560

MS 153: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 1459

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Identifier: MS 153
Contents Contains three treatises by John Haghen, written by the scribe John Rössler and annotated by John of Haghen himself.ff. 1r-178r: 'Expositio privilegiorum Ordinis Carthusiensis'ff. 178r-264r: 'Expositio aliorum privilegiorum ejusdem Ordinis'ff. 265r-329v: 'Tractatus de Vita et Regimine Clericorum'The texts are described separately, under the folio headings listed above. Writing A good, uniform...
Dates: 1459
ff. 268v-269r
ff. 268v-269r

MS 154: Digestum Novum by Justinian the Great [incomplete], 11th-12th century

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Identifier: MS 154
Contents This manuscript was created in the 11th or 12th century, possibly in England or Italy. It contains the Digestum Novum by Justinian I, traditionally called Justinian the Great. Justinian was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565. This text is a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by him, and makes up one part of his Corpus Juris Civilis. It is also known as the ...
Dates: 11th-12th century

MS 155: Composite manuscript containing five texts , 13th-14th century

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Identifier: MS 155
Contents This manuscript was created in the 13th or 14th century and the hand seems to be Italian. It features a collection of legal texts, focussed on Roman law. They could all be connected to the Corpus Juris Civilis, a legal text compiled by Justinian, traditionally known as Justinian the Great, who the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565. It seems that the texts in this manuscript have been lifted from another manuscript, as some of them start and end...
Dates: 13th-14th century

MS 156: Statuta Anglie (List of English Statutes), 14th century

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Identifier: MS 156
Contents This manuscript contains a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament, and a Registrum Brevium, which is collection of writs used by legal practitioners, especially in the late Middle Ages.ContentsStatutes: start on f. 1r and ends on f. 29v, and contains the following statutes: Magna Carta,...
Dates: 14th century

MS 157: Statuta Anglie [lost during WWII], 14th century

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Identifier: MS 157
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was lost during the Second World War. It was a 14th-century English manuscript in vellum, written in Latin and in French, which contained a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament. A more detailed description can be found in Catherine Borland's catalogue (1916): MS 157 (external link).

Dates: 14th century

MS 158: Register of Writs [incomplete], 14th century

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Identifier: MS 158
Scope and Contents In medieval England, common law descended from writs issued by the royal chancery. These writs were compiled in a volume referred to as the Registrum Brevium (Register of Writs), the earliest surviving manuscript of which exists from 1227. These texts of writs was continually modified and updated, and the Registrum Brevium came to be one of the most common kind of legal manuscript in Medieval England. MS 158 is a pocket-sized...
Dates: 14th century

MS 159: Book of Swedish Laws, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 159
Scope and Contents This manuscript is a 15th-century book of law from Linköping, Sweden. It comprises the royal and municipal law of Sweden, laws of marriage, inheritance, land, buildings, commerce, navigation, magistracy, oaths, loyalty, murder, homicide, premeditated assault [?], theft, estate law and church law. There are also rules to be observed by those about to receive the Eucharist, with some other liturgical material.Two fly-leaves of vellum are fragments of a noted breviary of the 13th...
Dates: 15th century

MS 162: La Cedola del Terzo Monte dei Poveri della Magnifica Città di Perugia, 15th-16th century

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Identifier: MS 162
Contents La Cedola del Terzo Monte dei Poveri della magnifica Città di Perugia ('The ordinances of the third Mount of Piety of the magnificent city of Perugia') is a document relating to the establishment of a Mount of Piety founded in Perugia in 1467. A Mount of Piety was a pawnbroking establishment run by the Church as a charity and intended to benefit the poors by lending small sums of money in exchange for an object which belonged to the client. One of the first...
Dates: 15th-16th century