Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in Italy.
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Missal (Carthusian), second half of the 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 53
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Missal from the second half of the 14th century. A missal is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year. This specific manuscript is according to Carthusian Use.The Kalendar is from f.i to f.vi. It is missing January to April.The Proprium de Tempore starts on f.1r. The Proprium de Tempore comprises...
Dates:
second half of the 14th century
Missal (Franciscan), 14th century
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Identifier: MS 54
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Missal from the 14th century. A missal is a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the year. This specific manuscript can be classified as Franciscan.A Miniature appears on f.1r.The Kalendar starts on f.2r. It is missing March to October.The Proprium de Tempore, Advent to Easter starts on f.4r. The ...
Dates:
14th century
MS MED 1.2: Athanasius; Vigilius Tapsensis., nd
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Scope and Contents
Composite volume. 130 numbered vellum pages. Neat humanistic script. Written space 150 x 90mm, 26 lines per page. f.1 features main intial, letter F in gold illumination, pink, green and blue, with a white interlaced vine and dots. Cupids hold a gold hoop in the lower margin.
Boards covered in a mottled, dyed vellum, with gold edges to text block. 'Mr Sargent's own' on front flyleaf. Written in Italy - potentially Florence. Described as MS 62 in Pettigrew's catalogue of the...
Dates:
nd
MS MED 1.4 Augustinus, Soliloquia; Preces, nd
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Scope and Contents
Composite volume. 83 numbered vellum pages. Small round fere-humanistica script, with ink lifting in places on flesh side of vellum. Written space 87 x 55mm, 30 lines per page. First initial is c.10 lines with blue, red, green and gold. Later initials are 1-3 lines, with combinations of blue, red, purple, green and gold. Contains some marginal notes in a second hand.
Blind tooled purple leather binding, with marbelled end papers. 'Manuscript of the XIV [14th] century' in pencil on...
Dates:
nd
New Testament and Wisdom Books [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 14th century
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Identifier: MS 11
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the text of the New Testament according to the Vulgate. The four canonical Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation are preceded by prologues. The prologues of the Gospels belong to the monarchian tradition, so called because it relates to the monarchian doctrine, which saw God as one person. They accompany several extant copies of the Vulgate, although their text is not derived from...
Dates:
14th century
New Testament [Bible. New Testament. Latin. Vulgate], 13th century
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Identifier: MS 10
Contents
The manuscript contains the New Testament. The text between Book of Revelation chapter 17, verse 8 to First Letter of Peter chapter 2, verse 13 is missing. The manuscript includes the apocryphal Letter to the Laodiceans (f. 253r). A letter written "to the Laodiceans" or "from Laodicea" (depending on the different interpretation of the Latin text) is mentioned in the ...
Dates:
13th century
Oratio in Die Cinerum by Giovanni Antonio Campani, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 97
Contents
This manuscript contains the Oratio in Die Cinerum, an oration for Ash Wednesday written by Giovanni Antonio Campani (1429-1477), a Neapolitan writer famous for his Latin poetry and orations. He held different offices in the Vatican and was close to Pope Pius II. A colophon on f. 19r indicates that this oration was read at the Palace of the Pope in Rome on the 3rd of March of 1462. A sale entry suggest that this very copy was presented to Pius...
Dates:
15th century
Ordinatio [incomplete] by John Duns Scotus, 14th century
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Identifier: MS 116
Contents
This manuscript contains the first two books of John Duns Scotus’s Ordinatio or Opus Oxoniense. Duns Scotus (c. 1266 –1308) was Fransciscan and very influential Scholastic philosopher and theologian of the late Middle Ages, famous for his doctrines of the univocity of being and the haecceitas. The Ordinatio or Opus Oxoniense is...
Dates:
14th century
Ordo Professionis (Benedictine), 1541
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Identifier: MS 55
Contents
The manuscript is an Italian Order of Profession created in Verona in 1541. These types of manuscripts provide rubrics (instructions) and texts for those in the religious profession. This specific manuscript can be classified as Benedictine.The manuscript starts with Incipit ordo professionis fiende per monacham in manu sacerdotis on f.1r. It continues Anno domini .mo...
Dates:
1541
Practica cum antidotario, by Johannes Serapion, 13th-14th century
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Identifier: MS 170
Contents
MS 170 is the Practica sive breviarium, a Latin translation from the 12th century by Gerard of Cremona. Gerard translated one of the two medical texts by 9th-century Christian physician, Johannes Serapion (also known as Yahya ibn Sarafyun, and Serapion the Elder). Little is known about Serapion, other than that he lived during the second half of the 9th century, and wrote medical treatises in Syriac. Through Gerard's Latin translation, which made the text...
Dates:
13th-14th century