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:
Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 14th century
Item
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
Composite manuscript containing seventeen texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 121
Contents
Contains seventeen texts bound together, written in different hands. The margins are badly cropped, and some leaves are missing.ff. 1r-2: Commentary to 'Mercher ad Fledium. Liber de lapide qui vocatur Rebis'.ff. 2-68v: 'Experimenta' ('Experiments').ff. 68v-72v: Alchemic recipes.ff. 73r-99: 'Lumen luminum minus et perfecti magisteri' by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī (known in the West as 'Rhazes' and 'Rasis', version by Wynandus de Ruffo...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing six comedies by Terence, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 197
Contents
MS 197 contains all six of the comedies by Roman playwright Terence.Andrea: ff. 1r-21v. Starts with the line [N]atus in excelsis tectis cartaginis alteEunuchus: ff. 22r-45v. Starts with the line [T]errentii affri incipit eunucus acta ludis megallensibusHeauton Timorumenos: ff. 45v-68r. The play starts with the line ...
Dates:
late 15th century
Composite manuscript containing six medical texts, 1481; 17th century
Item
Identifier: MS 169
Contents
Contains six medical texts, and recipes inserted at a later date. The whole volume is written by the hand of Robert of Sherburn, with the exception of the recipes, written by Francis Cox.ff. 1v-2v: A Tabula to the volume, in the hand of Robert of Sherburn, and an ilustration of a physician and patient (described under 'Scope and Contents-Illumination').Ff. 3r-37r, ff. 41r-44r: 'Expositio cum questionibus super textu Rasis in...
Dates:
1481; 17th century
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
Composite manuscript containing six texts by Ramon Llull, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 117
Contents
This manuscript is a miscellany of texts associated with Ramon Llull, a 13th century philosopher. It is 15th century and probably Italian. The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-10v: Ars generalis ultima by Ramon Llullff. 12r-14v: Liber de Accidente et Substantia by Ramon Llullff. 15r-22r: Alphabetum puerile logices by Ramon Llullff. 22v-23r: ...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, late 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 166
Contents
Contains sixteen texts by/attributed to Galen, in two different hands.ff. 1r-15v; 271r-274v:'De morbo et accidente'ff. 15v-48r; 266v-271r: 'De Interioribus'ff. 48r-75v: 'Megategni', 11th-century Latin translation by Constantinus Africanusff. 75v-92r: 'De Creticis Diebus'ff. 92r-114v: 'De Crisibus', 12th-century translation by Gerard of Cremonaff. 115r-125v: 'De elementis secundum Hippocratem', translated by Gerard of...
Dates:
late 13th century
Composite manuscript containing sixteen texts including the Regiam Majestatem, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 207
Contents
This 15th-century Scottish manuscript contains a collection of texts about Scottish law, which seem to have been compiled by the same scribe, with some additions in a later hand. The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-5v: Rubrics for the Regiae Majestatemff. 6r-7r: Compositio Carte, exceptiones contra cartam, expositiones quorundam vocabiliorumff. 8r-63v: Regiam...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing tables and three texts, 12th-15th centuries
Item
Identifier: MS 163
Contents
Contains three texts, and tables subsequently inserted into the volume. The fly leaves (ff. i-ii) containing the tables are by later hands, while the rest of the manuscript is by a single 12th-century hand with only the exception of f. 72, which is written by a different but contemporary 12th-century hand.The tables on f. ir and f. iiv list three additional texts, now missing, or perhaps never copied: 'Liber urinarum a voce theophili' (Theophilus Protospatharius's, also known as...
Dates:
12th-15th centuries
Composite manuscript containing the Rule of Saint Benedict and various other texts, 1560
Item
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