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:
Satires by Juvenal, late 15th century
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Identifier: MS 199
Contents
Juvenal was an early second-century AD Roman poet. Although little else is known about his life, he is credited with having written sixteen satires. When first published, the satires were divided into five books, and in them Juvenal criticised the beliefs and morals of his contemporaries. Juvenal addresses many of the concerns in second-century Rome in his poems, including the tensions between non-Roman social climbers and Roman citizens, the preservation of existing social class, and the...
Dates:
late 15th century
Scholia by pseudo-Acro, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 200
Contents
MS 200 contains a set of commentaries on works by the first-century BC Roman poet, Horace. This set of commentaries is known as the Scholia and it is attributed to pseudo-Acro. Acro, or Helenius Acron was a third-century AD Roman commentator who wrote on the works of Terence and Horace. The commentary ("Scholia") found in MS 200 was not attributed to Acro before the fifteenth century, so his authorship is...
Dates:
15th century
Sermon by Arnoldus Creveterodt, 1521
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Identifier: MS 213
Contents
This manuscript contains a sermon by Arnoldus Creveterodt [or Crevecerodt]. Little is known of him and of this sermon, expect for what is said in the colophon, which reads: ‘This sermon was composed by lord Arnoldus Creveterodt [or Crevecerodt], Augustinian bishop in Meissen and suffragan of Hildesheim, which he delivered in the benediction of the Lord of the abbot of the monastery of Saint Michael, on the day of the ten thousand martyrs of 1521.’The colophon on f. 1r reads:...
Dates:
1521
Sermons and other theological material, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 214
Contents
Writing
This is a fragment (8 folios) of a 14th century manuscript that contains various short sermons and other theological material.
Writing
The script is French or Italian.
Dates:
14th century
Statuta Anglie (List of English Statutes), 14th century
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Identifier: MS 156
Contents
This manuscript contains a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament, and a Registrum Brevium, which is collection of writs used by legal practitioners, especially in the late Middle Ages.ContentsStatutes: start on f. 1r and ends on f. 29v, and contains the following statutes: Magna Carta,...
Dates:
14th century
Statuta Anglie [lost during WWII], 14th century
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Identifier: MS 157
Scope and Contents
This manuscript was lost during the Second World War. It was a 14th-century English manuscript in vellum, written in Latin and in French, which contained a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament. A more detailed description can be found in Catherine Borland's catalogue (1916): MS 157 (external link).
Dates:
14th century
Summa Confessionalis by Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, 1 September 1472
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Identifier: MS 77
Contents
This book is usually known as Summa Confessionalis, Summula de Confessionis or simply Confessionale. It is a guidebook for confessors in the Catholic doctrine written by Antoninus of Florence (1389–1459), a Dominican friar, archbishop of Florence, and considered Saint in the Catholic Church. There are different versions of the book. It was a compilation of several treatises by Antoninus but it...
Dates:
1 September 1472
Summa contra Gentiles by Thomas Aquinas, 1 September 1466
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Identifier: MS 75
Contents
15th century Italian manuscript of Thomas Aquinas's Summa contra Gentiles, also known as Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra Errores infidelium, among other names, originally written during circa 1259-1265. A theological treatise devoted to explaining core beliefs of the Catholic faith to infidels, and to providing a philosophical defense for arguments against the doctrine. This copy was done in Vigevano, Italy, by the...
Dates:
1 September 1466
Summa de casibus conscientie by Bartholomew of San Concordio, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 146
Contents
MS 146 is a text by Bartholomew of San Concordio (a small town near Pisa). Bartholomew was a mid 13th-14th century Italian Dominican canonist who produced two notable works, one of which is copied in MS 146. The Summa de Casibus conscientie is an alphabetically arranged work on canon law. It was widely disseminated in the medieval period, as it is particularly practical in comparison to many other existing manuals of medieval canon law, and it presents a...
Dates:
15th century
Summa de Virtutibus et Vitiis by William Perault, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 79
Contents
This manuscript contains Summa de Virtutibus et Vitiis by William Perault (c. 1190–1271), a writer and preacher of the Order of the Preachers (Dominican Order). The book is a theological and philosophical summa composed of two treatises: De Virtutibus (On Virtues) and De Vitiis (On Vices). Many treatises on Catholic principles...
Dates:
13th century