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:
Collectarium (Cistercian), 14th century
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Identifier: MS 29
Contents
The manuscript is a 14th century Collectarium. The collectarium is a book that contains Collects, which are short general prayers of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. This version originated in Italy; a Perugian provenance is clearly indicated, with Sienese connections. It is also specifically Cistercian.The Kalendar starts on f.1r.In the Kalendar, the distinctively Cistercian marks are: 10 January: Viliemi [i.e.Guillelmi] (Bishop)...
Dates:
14th century
Collection of letters and sermons by Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, and others, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 102
Contents
This manuscript contains a collection of 71 letters and sermons by Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Clairvaux, Jerome, Ambrose, and others. The letters treat different ethical and theological topics. The collection seems to have circulated under the name of Epistolae Agustini (Epistles of Augustine) in the Late Middle Ages. However, the authorship of some of Augustine’s letters has been questioned. In this edition, the three...
Dates:
15th century
Collection of sermons entitled Sermones provinciales, 13th century
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Identifier: MS 96
Contents
This manuscript contains 92 sermons in several different hands.A title on f. 1r reads: Incipiunt Sermones Provinciales. Dominica prima in Adventu Domini. The text starts on f. 1r with the following opening words: Hora est jam nos de sompno surgere. Est triplex sompnus ignorantie. And ends on f. 106v with the following words: salientes magnas foveas uno [?] ...
Dates:
13th century
Collection of Sermons, Epistles, Hagiographies, and other religious texts by Guerric of Igny, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Damian, and other important figures of the Catholic Church, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 98
Contents
This manuscript contains a collection of around 70 Sermons, Epistles, Hagiographies, prayers, and other religious texts by several different authors, including Guerric of Igny, Augustine of Hippo, Peter Damian, Maximus [?], Pope Sylvester, Pope Eugene IV, Pope Boniface IX, and abbot Gibuinus.ContentsSermo Guerrici Abbatis. De Adventu Domini: starts on f. 1r with the following words: Vox...
Dates:
15th century
Collection of verses of the Bible divided by topics by an unknown author, wrongly identified as John Peckham's Opusculum de Virtutibus et Vitiis, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 81
Contents
This manuscript has the title Opusculum de Virtutibus et Vitiis, attributed to John Peckham. However, it seems to be a collection of verses of the Bible divided by topics, by an unknown author.ContentsTabula: on fly leaves, start with: De Avertione and end with: Ypocrismi.Prologue: starts on f. 1r...
Dates:
14th century
Commentaries on the Bible by Johannes de Indagine, 1460s
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Identifier: MS 71
Contents
A 15th century autograph manuscript (the author of the work is also the scribe of the manuscript) from the Carthusian Charterhouse at Erfurt. The author and scribe is Johannes de Indagine, who was a Carthusian monk and prior connected to Erfurt Charterhouse and other Carthusian houses in Germany in the fifteenth century. The manuscript includes a collection of commentaries on parts of the bible, including Paul's letters, the Song of Songs, and other parts of the old and new testaments....
Dates:
1460s
Commentary on Rhazes' Nonus Almansoris by Gerard of Solo, 1391
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Identifier: MS 177
Contents
MS 177 is a commentary by Gerard of Solo on a ninth-century medical text by Persian physician and author, Rhazes. Rhazes' original Arabic text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century, at which point it became well known and used in medieval Europe. Book IX of this work deals with pathology, and it quickly became a valuable guide for theraputic medicine that remained popular long after the medieval period. Due to its applicability and wide-usage, there are several commentaries...
Dates:
1391
Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugh Ripelin, 16th century
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Identifier: MS 72
Contents
16th century Scottish manuscript of the Compendium theologicae veritatis. This text was one of the most widely read theological manuals or textbooks of the Middle Ages. It is divided into seven books: 1 The Nature of God; 2 The Creation; 3 On Sin; 4 The Incarnation; 5 On Grace, Beatitudes and the Sacraments; 6 The Sacraments; 7 The Last Things. It has been attributed to a variety of authors, such as Albertus Magnus (it was published in Albertus Magnus, ...
Dates:
16th century
Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugh Ripelin, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 74
Contents
14th century German manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', one of the most widely read theological manuals or textbooks of the Middle Ages. It is divided into seven books: 1 The Nature of God; 2 The Creation; 3 On Sin; 4 The Incarnation; 5 On Grace, Beatitudes and the Sacraments; 6 The Sacraments; 7 The Last Things. It has been attributed to a variety of authors but current research points to Hugh Ripelin (also called Hugo Argentinensis), a Dominican theologian at Strasburg,...
Dates:
14th century
Compilatio librorum historialium ab Adam usque ad Christum by Johannes de Utino, 1358
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Identifier: MS 189
Contents
Johannes de Utino, a Franciscan friar from Mortegliano (near Udine) in the first half of the fourteenth century, composed a diagrammatic chronicle of universal history from Adam to Christ, a compilation of Biblical and post-biblical history. MS 189 Johannes's work chronicle in roll form, over 5 metres in length, and arranged around a central genealogical diagrammatical 'tree' running down the centre of the length of the roll. The first half of the roll covers Biblical history, while the...
Dates:
1358