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 including twenty-four texts, 13th-14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 107
Contents
Contains twenty-four texts, in two different hands. This manuscript was made in England and dates from the 13th-14th century; the texts are various religious tracts in Latin, Old French, and Middle English.Flyleaves: Unidentified Latin text and the start of a Contents list in a 17th-century handff. 1r-28v: De Miseria Condicionis Humane (On the wretchedness of the human condition) by Pope Innocent...
Dates:
13th-14th century
Composite manuscript including twenty-seven texts, 1478
Item
Identifier: MS 131
Contents
Contains twenty-eight texts, all in the same hand except the last one. Folios are missing between f. 123 and f. 124; between f. 124 and f. 125; between f. 129 and f. 130.ff. 1r-5v: 'Tractatus de lapide philosophico' by Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas.ff. 6r-17v: 'Liber Julii Latini' ('Book of Julius Latinus').ff. 18r-23v: 'Epistola accurtationis' by Pseudo-Ramon Llull.ff. 24r-29r: 'Errores Alchimiae' by Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villanova.ff....
Dates:
1478
Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century; early 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 27
Contents
Contains two texts bound together, in five different hands.The manuscript is a Sarum Breviary with a full Sarum Litany, and a Kalendar. This is in four different hands.Additionally, ff.ir-iiv and ff.231v-232v feature a Chronicle of Scottish History.The texts are described separately, under MS 27/ff. ir-iiv, 231v-232v and MS 27/ff. 1r-482v. Writing The script is good and...
Dates:
early 14th century; early 15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 42
Contents
Contains two texts bound together, in two main hands.ff. 1r-6r: Kalendar, probably connected with Rochester.ff. 7r-130r: Book of Hours, featuring the Hours of Saint Ninian, and prayers inserted by Scottish hands.The texts are described separately under MS 42/ff. 1r-6r and MS 42/ff. 7r-130r. Writing The primary hand is a Gothic hand, with laterally compressed letters. Most...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 128
Contents
Writing
Contains two texts, in two different hands.
ff. 1-11v: 'De sphaera mundi' by Johannes de Sacrobosco
ff. 12r-16: 'De Substantia orbis' [incomplete] by Averroes
Writing
Fairly written by two hands, with diagrams, but initials have not been inserted.
Dates:
14th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 134
Contents
Contains two texts, both in the same hand. The Tractatus de logica by Al-Ghāzāli is found on ff. 1-34. A book by 'Isaac de Diffinitionibus' is included on ff. 34v-36. The texts are described separately, under MS 134/ff. 1-34; and MS 134/ff. 34v-36. Writing Well written, small Italian Gothic hand. Illumination Blue and red filigree initials on burnished gold...
Dates:
14th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 70
Contents
Contains two texts in the same hand.ff. 1r-91v: 'Commentum super Lamentationes Jeremie' (Commentary on the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah), by Hugh of Saint Victor.ff. 92r-183v: 'De Mistico Sompnio' (On the Dream of King Nebuchadnezzar), by Richard of Saint Victor.The texts are described separately, under MS 70/ff. 1r-91v; and MS 70/ff. 92r-183v. Writing A good 15th century Gothic hand, uniform and...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 11th-12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 105
Contents
Contains two texts, in several different hands.ff. 1r-12v: ‘De Operibus Trium Dierum’ by Hugh of Saint Victor, also known as De Tribus Diebusff. 12v-35v: Collection of sermons, aphorisms, quotations, and sentences by several different authors including Hugh of Saint Victor, Martin of Braga, and HildebertThe texts are described separately, under MS 105/ff.1-12 and MS 105/ff. 12v-36v. ...
Dates:
11th-12th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 109
Contents
Writing
Contains two texts, both in the same hand.
ff. 1r-64v: ‘De Trinitate’ by Richard of Saint Victor
ff. 65r-96v: ‘The Shepherd of Hermas’ [incomplete]
The texts are described separately, under MS 109/ff. 1r-64v and MS 109/ff. 65r-96v.
Writing
The hand is good and very characteristically Dutch, as is also the penwork ornament of the initials. The foliation and catchwords are contemporary.
Dates:
14th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 76
Contents
Contains two texts in the same hand.ff. 1v-86r: Books III and IV of 'Libri Quattuor Sententiarum' by Peter Lombard.ff. 87r-195r: 'Liber de Sacramentis' by an unknown author.The texts are described separately, under MS 76/ff. 1v-86r and MS 76/ff. 87r-195r. Writing A beautifully written manuscript in a uniform Gothic hand and very black ink, well spaced with good margins, now partially cropped, on fine...
Dates:
13th century