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 the Inchcolm Antiphoner, c 1340
Item
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...
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...
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...
Dates:
1892-1893
Gradual, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 33
Scope and Contents
A Gradual (or graduale) is a book which contains the chants sung during the Mass. It includes the music notation together with the words. Like the Breviary, it is divided into distinct parts according to the two main cycles of the liturgical year, which contain respectively all the parts of the liturgy which vary in accordance to a specific observance (proprium de tempore, 'proper of time' and...
Dates:
15th century
Gradual (Carthusian), late 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 34
Scope and Contents
A Gradual (or graduale) is a book which contains the chants sung during the Mass. It includes the music notation together with the words. Like the Breviary, it is divided into distinct parts according to the two main cycles of the liturgical year, which contain respectively all the parts of the liturgy which vary in accordance to a specific observance (proprium de tempore, 'proper of time' and...
Dates:
late 14th century
Heures a Lusaige de Rome (printed), and manuscript prayers, c 1505
Item
Identifier: MS 209
Scope and Contents
This is a book of hours printed on vellum, which contains eight folios with manuscript prayers at the beginning and at the end (four leaves at the beginning, and four leaves at the end). Includes 17 full-page metalcuts (hand-coloured). Due to the fact that it is mostly a printed book, it is also known under the shelfmark 'Dd.7.107', and has been catalogued on Discovered: click here to see...
Dates:
c 1505
Historia destructionis Troiae, by Guido delle Colonne, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 188
Contents
Historia destructionis Troiae is an account of Troy and its destruction in the Trojan War, written in Latin verse. It was originally composed in the 13th century by Sicilian author, Guido delle Colonne. Guido claimed to have written the piece in just 71 days.The poem begins on f. 1r with the Prologue. The first line reads: Ut si cotidie vetera recentibus obruant...The Prologue ends on f. 1v, with ...
Dates:
15th century
Historia Scholastica by Petrus Comestor , 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 17
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica, an abridged version of the Bible written around 1170 by Petrus Comestor for the students of the cathedral school of Paris. The text consists in the retelling of stories (hence the name historia) taken from the Bible and in their explanation. It became an essential part of the curriculum of the theological school and greatly influenced popular Bibles produced in the 13th and...
Dates:
13th century
Historia Scholastica by Petrus Comestor , 13h century
Item
Identifier: MS 18
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica, an abridged version of the Bible written around 1170 by Petrus Comestor for the students of the cathedral school of Paris. The text consists in the retelling of stories (hence the name historia) taken from the Bible and in their explanation. It became an essential part of the curriculum of the theological school and greatly influenced popular Bibles produced in the 13th and...
Dates:
13h century
Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome [incomplete], by Epiphanius Scholasticus, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 178
Contents
MS 178 contains a copy of a 6th-century Church history by Epiphanius Scholasticus. The work takes the form of twelve books, and became the primary clerical manual for Church history in the medieval west for centuries. The 12-part book is often presented in early print publications/manuscript copies as the work of Cassiodorus. However, it was originally a work of Latin translations of the histories of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret produced by Cassiodorus's friend and colleague at the...
Dates:
12th century