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:
Fragments of an English processional, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/X
Scope and Contents
Processional, almost certainly following the Use of Sarum. F. 1: last part of the [response] Tristis est anima, [versus] Ecce appropinquabit hora, followed by the response Ecce vidimus eum. F. 2: part of the verse Ostium abundavit, [response] Revelabunt celi, [versus] In die perditionis, followed by...
Dates:
15th century
Fragments of an ordinale, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/XXVI
Scope and Contents
Two portions of a vellum leaf of a 14th century Ordinale, containing part of the Temporale following the Feast of the Epiphany. There sections cut from both fragments in a regular pattern (see images).
Writing Neat, in black ink. There is a small hint of coloured initials in blue and red, although only one or two are actually visible on these fragments. There is one rough filigree initial.
Writing Neat, in black ink. There is a small hint of coloured initials in blue and red, although only one or two are actually visible on these fragments. There is one rough filigree initial.
Dates:
14th century
Fragments of the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, early 14th century
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Identifier: MS 211/XXXIII
Scope and Contents
Cropped leaves from the Decretals of Pope Gregory IX, with the text and also a marginal commentary. On f. 1r the text begins with De Officio Judicis. Ex litteris vestris accepimus…from Book I, Section XXXII. On f. 1v, the text proper ends with civitas caperetur Constantinopolis, which is from Section XXXIII, Chapter VIII. On f. 2-3 there is Book II. The text begins on f. 2r with Section VI, Chapter VIII, ...
Dates:
early 14th century
Fragments of the Gratian Decretals, possibly English, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 211/XXXI
Scope and Contents
Two leaves from a copy of the Gratian Decretals. These two leaves contain some text from this work, and many marginal notes around the text itself. The notes may be part of a 13th commentary on Gratian's Decretals. A cornerstone of medieval canon law, the Decretals are divided into three parts, the second of which is made up of 36 'causes' which are further divided into questions dealing with the ecclesiastical administration and marriage. In the 33rd cause specifically, the third question is...
Dates:
13th century
Fragments of the Inchcolm Antiphoner, c 1340
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Identifier: MS 211/IV
Scope and Contents
Four leaves from an Antiphoner written in Scotland around 1340, most likely for the Augustinian Priory of Inchcolm, which was sacked by the English in 1335. There are later additions.Contains parts of the services for the feasts of Saint Columba and Corpus Christi. Saint Columba (ff. marked 1 and 3): part of ninth respond to Matins; anthems chapter, hymn, anthem to Benedictus at Lauds; anthem to Magnificat at second Vesper;...
Dates:
c 1340
Gaelic literature (Notes for a lecture series), Late 19th or early 20th century
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/20
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 6 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series. There are no dates noted on the front covers, but the lectures presumably took place at the University of Edinburgh while Donald Mackinnon was Chair of Celtic. The following notebooks survive:'Old period: Ecclesiastical Latin' (Item B43a)'Old period: Secular Latin' (Item B43b)'Old period: Gaelic and glosses' (Item B43c)'Old period: Prose and verse' (Item B43d)'Old period: Old...
Dates:
Late 19th or early 20th century
Gaelic literature (Notes for series of lectures), 1892-1893
Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/22
Scope and Contents
A bundle of 7 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which took place in the academic year 1892-93. The following notebooks survive:'(I) Three periods of Gaelic literature; (II) Did the heathen Gael write books?; and (III) The extant literature of ecclesiastical Latin' (Item B46a)A draft of 'Did the heathen Gael write books?' (Item B46b)'Literature of the 1st period: Latin commentators and controversialists' (Item B46c)'The early Gaelic...
Dates:
1892-1893
MS 1: Biblia Sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 1
Contents
The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate, including the apocryphal books.It also contains the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum ('Interpretations of the Hebrew names'), a list, mostly in alphabetical order, of Hebrew names found in the Bible, attributed to Stephen Langton (died 1228); each Hebrew name is accompanied by a short explanation in Latin.The books of the Old Testament are arranged in an unusual order: ...
Dates:
13th century
MS 2: Biblia Sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], c 1300
Item
Identifier: MS 2
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate. It also contains the Interpretationes nominum hebraicorum ('Interpretations of the Hebrew names'), a list, mostly in alphabetical order, of Hebrew names found in the Bible, attributed to Stephen Langton (died 1228); each Hebrew name is accompanied by a short explanation in Latin.At the beginning of Nehemiah, a second hand has added the numeral for 'second' and a later...
Dates:
c 1300
MS 3: Biblia Sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 3
Scope and Contents
This manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate. The only variation in the order is that the Letter to the Colossians follows the Letter to the Thessalonians.The manuscript also includes the apocryphal Letter to the Laodiceans (f. 253r). A letter written "to the Laodiceans" or "from Laodicea" (depending on the different interpretation of the Latin text) is...
Dates:
13th century