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Manuscripts, Latin

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Manuscripts entirely or partially in Latin.

Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:

Eusebius's Historia Ecclesiastica [incomplete] translated and continued by Tyrannius Rufinus, 12th century

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Expositio in Libros Posteriorum Aristotelis by Paul of Venice, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 118
Contents This manuscript contains Expositio in Libros Posteriorum Aristotelis by Paul of Venice (1369–1429), a scholastic philosopher, logician, theologian of the Hermits of the Order of Saint Augustine. The Expositio in Libros Posteriorum Aristotelis is a commentary on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics that deals with the problems of logic and argumentation....
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Expositio super librum Psalmorum, by Petrus de Herentals, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 69
Contents 15th century Dutch manuscript of Petrus de Herenthal's Expositio super librum Psalmorum, (Exposition of the Psalms, sometimes called Collectarius super librum Psalmorum), a commentary on the Psalms, which he dedicated to John of Arkel (bishop of Utrecht 1342-1364, bishop of Liège 1364-1378). Writing The hand is good throughout, but the pages are much stained with ...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Fasciculus Morum, a handbook for preachers by an unknown author, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 82
Contents The Fasciculus Morum is a handbook for preachers written by an unknown Franciscan friar in the 14th century. This copy was done in the 15th century. An inscription in a 17th century hand, Fasciculus Morum per fratrem Thomam Acclom Carmelitam, tells us that Thomas Acclom of the Carmelite Order was either the scribe of this manuscript or the supposed author of the book.Contents...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts
Excerpt - Folio 19
Excerpt - Folio 19

Four Gospels [Bible. Gospels], 11th century

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Identifier: MS 12
Contents The manuscript contains the text of the four Gospels according to the Vulgate.Prologues: start on f. 1v. They consists of three prologues: the first is the letter Saint Jerome wrote to Pope Damasus and which acts as prologue to all four Gospels, starting with the words Novum opus facere me cogis (ff. 1v-4r); the second prologue, taken from Saint Jerome's 'Commentary to the Gospel of Saint Matthew', begins with the words ...
Dates: 11th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Fragment of a Bible, late 11th-12th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XXXVIII
Scope and Contents

Bifolium from a lectern Bible, Book of Macchabees, probably late 11th-12th century. Could possibly be English.



Writing

Neat bookhand.

Dates: late 11th-12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a Bible, possibly English, 12th century

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Identifier: MS 211/II
Scope and Contents

Bible. Ezekiel 23:8-42 (begins: […] cum ea in […] s et illi confre[…] ubertatis eius […] fornicationem […] Propterea tradidi eam in manus amatorum suorum; ends: et vox multitudinis exultantis erat)



Writing

Fine manuscript with Uncial titles. One decorated initial.

Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a breviary, 12th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XXIII
Scope and Contents

Upper part of leaf of a noted Breviary, containing portions of anthems, responsories, and lessons from a Common, probably that of Many Martyrs.



Writing

Fine hand in black ink, music neumes. Red lines for musical notation (neums). Blue and red slight filigree initials.

Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a breviary, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XXVII
Scope and Contents

Leaf of a 15th century Breviary containing part of the Sanctorale from 2nd Evensong of Saint Augustine to Lauds of the Beheading of Saint John Baptist. The leaf is quite faded, and the surface of the vellum has been rubbed/scratched on both sides, obscuring the text in some cases.



Writing

A very small hand, in black ink with some red initials and rubrication.

Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments

Fragment of a Grail, 12th century

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Identifier: MS 211/XX
Scope and Contents

One leaf of a Grail, containing part of the Temporale from Ember Friday in Lent to Thursday after the 2nd Sunday in Lent. The music is in neumes. It does not seem to agree with any particular Use. The first line on f. 1r is very faded, as is the bottom of f. 1r, and most of the verso side.



Writing

Initials are in red.

Dates: 12th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Fragments