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 two texts, 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 173
Contents
Contains two medical texts bound together, in the same hand. Both texts are glossed.
There are miscellaneous notes on the first vellum fly-leaf, in a fourteenth-century hand.ff. 1r-8v: 'Pulses' by Giles of Corbeil and glossff. 9r-101r: 'Viaticum' by Constantine the African. Gloss ends f. 102v.Both texts are described seperately under the titles listed above. Writing Well written in a single Italian Gothic...
Dates:
13th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 84
Contents
Contains two texts, written in different hands.ff. 1r-166r: 'De Perseverantia' by Maffeo Vegio [De Perseverantia Religionis]ff. 167r-190v: 'Ad Stagirium a Daemonio Vexatum' by John ChrysostomThe texts are described separately, under MS 84/ff. 1r-166r and MS 84/ff. 167r-190v. Writing The Vegius is written in a clear sloping italic hand which grows smaller at the end. The...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 144
Contents
MS 144 contains the texts by early Christian monk and theologian, John Cassian, in the same hand.ff. 1r-45v: 'De institutis coenobiorum', by Johannus Cassianus [John Cassian]ff. 45v-103v: incomplete 'Collationes patrum in scetica eremo', by Johannus Cassianus [John Cassian]The texts are described separately, under MS 144/ff. 1r-45v; MS 144/ff. 45v-103v. Writing Written in a clear Gothic hand. There are...
Dates:
early 14th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 23
Contents
The manuscript is a 15th-century composite containing works relating to virgin saints. It is German or Dutch. The works contained within it are detailed separately below.ff.1r-40v: Revelatio Nova Itineris et Passionis Undecim Milium Virginum Martyrum (The Passion of the Eleven Thousand Virgins). This text is related to Saint Ursula.ff.40v-72v: Vita et Legenda Beate Katherine Virginis (The Life and...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 92
Contents
Contains two texts, written by two different hands.ff. 1r-22v: Meditaciones Vite Christi [incomplete] by Pseudo-Bonaventureff. 23r-32v: Gospel of Nicodemus [incomplete]The texts are described separately, under MS 92/ff. 1r-22v; and MS 92/ff. 23r-32v. Writing Written by two different hands, both rather cramped. The rubrics are...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscripts including two texts by Sallust, 1462
Item
Identifier: MS 190
Contents
The two texts by Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) contained in MS 190 are De Coniuratione Catilinae and Bellum Jugurthinum. These are the only two texts that survive complete from Sallust, and both are described separately, under MS 190/ff. 1r-42v, and MS 190/ff. 43r-127v. Writing Italian script with plain red capitals. The rubrics and first words of sections are Roman...
Dates:
1462
Composite volume containing eighteen texts, printed and manuscript, late 15th century, 1490
Item
Identifier: MS 210
Scope and Contents
This volume of German origin is partly printed, partly manuscript. Both the printed and manuscript parts date from the very late 15th century, around 1490. It contains mostly grammatical and rhetorical treatises.f. 1r: table of contents (contemporary) [MANUSCRIPT].ff. 2r-43v: Modus Latinitatis by Ulricus Ebrardi [PRINTED].ff. 44r-127v: ...
Dates:
late 15th century; 1490
Constituta totius Ordinis canonicorum regularium Ordinis S. Augustini by Pope Benedict XII, early 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 148
Contents
MS 148 is a copy of a reforming text by Pope Benedict XII, known as 'Constituta totius Ordinis canonicorum regularium Ordinis S. Augustini'. Benedict XII became pope in 1334, and occupied the role until his death in 1342. Pope during the'Avignon papacy' period, Benedict was the third pope to rule from Avignon (in France), rather than Rome. Pope Benedict was a former Cistercian abbot, and was known for his religious strictness and austerity. When he became pope, he turned his attention to...
Dates:
early 14th century
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
De Doctrina Cordis, religious treatise addressed to nuns, late 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 85
Contents
This manuscript contains the text De Doctrina Cordis, also known as De Dispositione Cordis, De Praeparatione Cordis, and Cordis Instructio. It is a religious treatise addressed to nuns. The book is divided in seven parts, each corresponding to one of the actions required to attune the heart for unity with God. It was originally written in the 13th century, but...
Dates:
late 14th century