Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Medieval Manuscripts created in England.
Found in 74 Collections and/or Records:
MS 140: Summa Super Titulis Decretalium [incomplete], by Geoffrey of Trani, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 140
Contents
This manuscript contains a section of a text by 13th century Italian jurist, Geoffrey of Trani. The text found in part in MS 140 is Trani's most famous work, theSumma super titulis decretalium. It is a summary of the Decretals of Gregory IX, an extremely influential text on canon law produced under the direction of Pope Gregory IX in the 1230s, a few decades before the career of Geoffrey of Trani. The copy of Trani's work...
Dates:
14th century
MS 141: Composite manuscript including six texts, 15th century
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Identifier: MS 141
Contents
MS 141 contains six texts, mostly in the same hand, with the exception of f. 1. The specific folios containing these texts are listed below, and the texts are described separately under these headings.
ff. 1r-v: A tabula, seemingly beginning on f. 1v, and ending on 1r (bound on the wrong side)
ff. 2r-v: A misplaced leaf, should follow f. 27 in this manuscript
ff. 3r-5r:...
Dates:
15th century
MS 148: Constituta totius Ordinis canonicorum regularium Ordinis S. Augustini by Pope Benedict XII, early 14th century
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Identifier: MS 148
Contents
MS 148 is a copy of a reforming text by Pope Benedict XII, known as 'Constituta totius Ordinis canonicorum regularium Ordinis S. Augustini'. Benedict XII became pope in 1334, and occupied the role until his death in 1342. Pope during the'Avignon papacy' period, Benedict was the third pope to rule from Avignon (in France), rather than Rome. Pope Benedict was a former Cistercian abbot, and was known for his religious strictness and austerity. When he became pope, he turned his attention to...
Dates:
early 14th century
MS 149: Composite manuscript containing two texts (plus insertions), 15th century
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Identifier: MS 149
Contents
Contains one text bound together with a collection of documents, in different hands.f. 1r-27v: 'Provinciale' by William Lyndwoodf. 29r-32v: Copies of a document concerning forms of absolution of the 15th centuryf. 30r also contains 12 lines of English and Latin verse and also a copy of a document dated at Stamford, 1481, concerning a Lincolnshire will.The texts are described...
Dates:
15th century
MS 154: Digestum Novum by Justinian the Great [incomplete], 11th-12th century
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Identifier: MS 154
Contents
This manuscript was created in the 11th or 12th century, possibly in England or Italy. It contains the Digestum Novum by Justinian I, traditionally called Justinian the Great. Justinian was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565. This text is a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by him, and makes up one part of his Corpus Juris Civilis. It is also known as the ...
Dates:
11th-12th century
MS 156: 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
MS 157: Statuta Anglie [lost during WWII], 14th century
Item
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
MS 158: Register of Writs [incomplete], 14th century
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Identifier: MS 158
Scope and Contents
In medieval England, common law descended from writs issued by the royal chancery. These writs were compiled in a volume referred to as the Registrum Brevium (Register of Writs), the earliest surviving manuscript of which exists from 1227. These texts of writs was continually modified and updated, and the Registrum Brevium came to be one of the most common kind of legal manuscript in Medieval England. MS 158 is a pocket-sized...
Dates:
14th century
MS 163: Composite manuscript containing tables and three texts, 12th-15th centuries
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Identifier: MS 163
Contents
Contains three texts, and tables subsequently inserted into the volume. The fly leaves (ff. i-ii) containing the tables are by later hands, while the rest of the manuscript is by a single 12th-century hand with only the exception of f. 72, which is written by a different but contemporary 12th-century hand.The tables on f. ir and f. iiv list three additional texts, now missing, or perhaps never copied: 'Liber urinarum a voce theophili' (Theophilus Protospatharius's, also known as...
Dates:
12th-15th centuries
MS 165: Composite manuscript containing three texts, 13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 165
Contents
Contains three texts, all in the same hand. Although these are three separate texts, the binding of them together, with the two short texts following Avicenna's Canon is a common arrangement.ff. 1r-406r: Canon of Medicine by Avicenna [Arabic: Ibn Sina], in 12th-century Gerard of Cremona's Latin translationff. 407r-411v: synonima Avicenniff. 411v-412r: Expositiones...
Dates:
13th century