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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Italy.

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

Composite manuscript including medical texts and recipes, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 175
Contents Contains texts and recipes mostly on medicine, in five different hands.ff. 2r-7r: Tabula (Table of Contents) of the volume. f. 1r-v is a duplicate page of f. 181.ff. 7v-12v: blank, except for one recipe on f. 9r.ff. 13r-64r: Regimen Sanitatis ad regem Aragonum by Arnaldus de Villanovaff. 64r-75v: a regimen sanitatis text, author unknownff. 76r-120r: ...
Dates: 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Composite manuscript including six texts, 10 October 1477

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Identifier: MS 73
Contents Contains six texts, all in the same hand.ff. 1r-11r: 'In Agenda Mortuorum apud Rationale Divinorum Officiorum'ff. 11v-12v: 'Sermo pro mortuis fratris Pauli de Cumis Ordin. Praedicatorum'f. 13r: 'Gregorius in libro moralium spiritualiter sic inquit de mortuis'f. 14v: 'De nece Apostolorum in quadam cronica sic legitur'ff. 15r-227r: 'Compendium Theologicae Veritatis' by Hugh Argentinensisff. 227v-233v: 'Praepulchra Miracula...
Dates: 10 October 1477
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Composite manuscript including twenty-seven texts, 1478

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Identifier: MS 131
Contents Contains twenty-eight texts, all in the same hand except the last one. Folios are missing between f. 123 and f. 124; between f. 124 and f. 125; between f. 129 and f. 130.ff. 1r-5v: 'Tractatus de lapide philosophico' by Pseudo-Thomas Aquinas.ff. 6r-17v: 'Liber Julii Latini' ('Book of Julius Latinus').ff. 18r-23v: 'Epistola accurtationis' by Pseudo-Ramon Llull.ff. 24r-29r: 'Errores Alchimiae' by Pseudo-Arnaldus de Villanova.ff....
Dates: 1478
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Composite manuscript including two different texts, late 15th century

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Identifier: MS 103
Contents Contains two texts bound together, both in the same hand.ff. 1r-27r: 'Manuale'('Manual') attributed to Augustine of Hippoff. 27v-332v: 'Sermo de miseria humana' ('Sermon on human misery') attributed to Bernard of ClairvauxThe texts are described separately, under MS 103/ff. 1r-27r; and MS 103/ff. 27v-32v. Writing Written in good Italian minuscule. ...
Dates: late 15th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Composite manuscript including two texts, 13th century

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

Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 128
Contents

Contains two texts, in two different hands.


ff. 1-11v: 'De sphaera mundi' by Johannes de Sacrobosco


ff. 12r-16: 'De Substantia orbis' [incomplete] by Averroes



Writing

Fairly written by two hands, with diagrams, but initials have not been inserted.

Dates: 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century

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Identifier: MS 134
Contents Contains two texts, both in the same hand. The Tractatus de logica by Al-Ghāzāli is found on ff. 1-34. A book by 'Isaac de Diffinitionibus' is included on ff. 34v-36. The texts are described separately, under MS 134/ff. 1-34; and MS 134/ff. 34v-36. Writing Well written, small Italian Gothic hand. Illumination Blue and red filigree initials on burnished gold...
Dates: 14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts

Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century

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

Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century

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

Composite manuscripts including two texts by Sallust, 1462

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