Manuscripts, Latin
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Latin.
Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:
MS 175: Composite manuscript including medical texts and recipes, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 175
Contents
Contains texts and recipes mostly on medicine, in five different hands.ff. 2r-7r: Tabula (Table of Contents) of the volume. f. 1r-v is a duplicate page of f. 181.ff. 7v-12v: blank, except for one recipe on f. 9r.ff. 13r-64r: Regimen Sanitatis ad regem Aragonum by Arnaldus de Villanovaff. 64r-75v: a regimen sanitatis text, author unknownff. 76r-120r: ...
Dates:
15th century
MS 176: De balneis Puteolanis [incomplete], by Peter of Eboli, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 176
Contents
MS 176 is a short volume with only a small abount of text combined with large, half-page illustrations. It contains sections VI-XXI of Peter of Eboli's thirty-five sectional didactic poem on the medicinal thermal baths in the region of Campania. Peter wrote his poem on bathing in the last years of the 12th century, and dedicated it to the emperor, probably the Holy Roman Emperor at the time, Henry VI.The text begins with the sixth section of Peter of Eboli's text, on f. 1r: ...
Dates:
15th century
MS 177: Commentary on Rhazes' Nonus Almansoris by Gerard of Solo, 1391
Item
Identifier: MS 177
Contents
MS 177 is a commentary by Gerard of Solo on a ninth-century medical text by Persian physician and author, Rhazes. Rhazes' original Arabic text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century, at which point it became well known and used in medieval Europe. Book IX of this work deals with pathology, and it quickly became a valuable guide for theraputic medicine that remained popular long after the medieval period. Due to its applicability and wide-usage, there are several commentaries...
Dates:
1391
MS 178: Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome [incomplete], by Epiphanius Scholasticus, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 178
Contents
MS 178 contains a copy of a 6th-century Church history by Epiphanius Scholasticus. The work takes the form of twelve books, and became the primary clerical manual for Church history in the medieval west for centuries. The 12-part book is often presented in early print publications/manuscript copies as the work of Cassiodorus. However, it was originally a work of Latin translations of the histories of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret produced by Cassiodorus's friend and colleague at the...
Dates:
12th century
MS 179: Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica [incomplete] translated and continued by Tyrannius Rufinus, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 179
Contents
Tyrannius Rufinus was a fourth-century Christian monk and theologian. Rufinus is known for his translations of work by Origen, a second and third-century Christian theologian and scholar. In 401, Rufinus was commissioned by Bishop Chromatius of Aquileia (Rufinus was born near Aquileia, in northern Italy) to translate the Historia Ecclesiastica by Eusebius. This translation of the text of ecclesiastical history by the third-century historian Eusebius was...
Dates:
12th century
MS 180: Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon [incomplete], 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 180
Contents
MS 180 contains a part of the Alexandreis, an epic poem by twelfth-century author, Walter of Châtillon. Walter's epic of Alexander the Great is written in hexameter verse and became a popular text in the Middle Ages. Written in the 1180s after Walter returned to France following his degree in law at the university of Bologna, the Alexandreis was requested by William, Archbishop of Rheims. This connection is explicit in the...
Dates:
13th century
MS 181: Composite manuscript containing six texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 181
Contents
Contains six texts, possibly written by two hands. The first four texts belong to a group of Latin textbooks largely used in schools during the Middle Ages, collectively known as Auctores octo morales ('Eight moral authors'). Catherine Borland erroneously attributes the second, third and fourth text (Liber Faceti docens mores hominum, Liber parabolarum and Liber...
Dates:
14th century
MS 182: Composite manuscript containing three texts, mid/late 14th-early 15th century
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Identifier: MS 182
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is composed of three sections bound together out of order, in different hands. The different texts are listed below and detailed separately.ff. 1r-2v; 4r-v; 26r-v: Fragments of a commentary on a variety of court cases in French.ff. 3r-v; 5r-24v: A text in Latin headed Flores Dictaminis Petri de Vineis et primo de querimonia Frederici Rubrica ( Flores...
Dates:
mid/late 14th-early 15th century
MS 183: Royal Letter Book, late 14th-early 15th century, c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)
Item
Identifier: MS 183
Scope and Contents
MS 183, the Royal Letter Book, is an English late medieval manuscript containing contemporary copies of 374 letters, most of which belong to the reigns of Edward III (1327-1377) and Richard II (1377-1397). The manuscript further contains a few copies of letters from the reign of Henry IV (1399-1413) and the copy of a single letter from the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), as well as several letters between other correspondents. The overall date range of the...
Dates:
late 14th-early 15th century; c 1335-c 1417 (dates of the original letters)
MS 186: Composite manuscript containing the Scotichronicon and various genealogical texts, 1510
Item
Identifier: MS 186
Contents
MS 186 is a composite volume, containing the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower and a number of short genealogical texts, all by the same hand.Ff. 1r-332v: Scotichronicon, by Walter BowerFf. 332v-333r: 'Epistola bernardi'Ff. 333v-336r: 'brevis recapitulatio' [A short summary] of Bower's Scotichronicon,...
Dates:
1510