Compilation manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Manuscript volumes comprising two or more works, whether referring to only the content combined or to the combination of physically separate leafs or gatherings that are sewn or tipped in to form one volume.
Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:
Composite manuscript containing eleven texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 206
Contents
This 15th-century Scottish manuscript contains a collection of texts about Scottish law, which seem to have been compiled by the same scribe. The contents are as follows:Flyleaf: Notes and inscriptionsff. 1r-8v: Table of Contents. Contains Assisa Regis David, which is now missing from the manuscript; Leges Burgorum, which is now partly missing; Leges Forestarum, of which...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing fifteen legal texts including the Regiam Majestatem, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 208
Contents
This Scottish manuscript contains a collection of texts about Scottish law. The first part of this manuscript (ff. 1-129) appears to have been written around the beginning of the last quarter of the 15th century; the rest (ff. 130-335) seems to have been written in 1496 (see Custodial History). The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-87r: Reportium (Index) to the volumeff. 89r-117v: Miscellaneous collection of lawsff. 118r-124v:...
Dates:
late 15th century
Composite manuscript containing fifteen texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 78
Contents
Contains fourteen texts, a number of which have been written by Brother Sigfrid Slimdlin.ff. 1r-49r: 'De venerabili sacramento altaris' ('On the venerable sacrament of the altar').f. 49v: Alphabet poem.ff. 50r-51v: Blank folios.ff. 52r-54v: Capitula of 'Bonum universale de Apibus' by Thomas of Cantimpré (followed by an excerpt from the same work).ff. 55r-61r: Two excerpts on bees from 'De proprietatibus rerum' by Bartholomaeus...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing five texts , 13th-14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 155
Contents
This manuscript was created in the 13th or 14th century and the hand seems to be Italian. It features a collection of legal texts, focussed on Roman law. They could all be connected to the Corpus Juris Civilis, a legal text compiled by Justinian, traditionally known as Justinian the Great, who the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565. It seems that the texts in this manuscript have been lifted from another manuscript, as some of them start and end...
Dates:
13th-14th century
Composite manuscript containing four comedies by Terence, late 14th century (with 15th century gloss)
Item
Identifier: MS 196
Contents
MS 196 contains four comedies (all incomplete) by the Roman playwright, Terence. His comedies were first performed in the mid-second century BC. They were very popular in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and survive in hundreds of medieval manuscripts. The four plays contained in MS 196 (Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos and Adelphi) are described separately under these titles. ...
Dates:
late 14th century (with 15th century gloss)
Composite manuscript containing four texts, 16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 150
Contents
Contains four texts, all in the same hand. This manuscript was written for the Dominican Convent of Sciennes in Edinburgh.ff. 1r-21r: Gospelsf. 21v: A rubric in Scots, setting out when 'The evangell sall be rede'ff. 22r-23v: a table (ff. 22v-23v left blank) entitled 'Ye Chengyng of Ye Mwne'ff. 24r-52r: 'Constitutiones Sororum Ordinis Predicatorum' (Cconstitutions of the Sisters of the order of the Friar Preachers, or Dominicans)The...
Dates:
16th century
Composite manuscript containing four texts, 12th-13th century
Item
Identifier: MS 123
Contents
This major text contained in this manuscript is Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages, which was probably originally written around the start of the 7th century. It is accompanied by other related works in this manuscript, which dates from the 12th or 13th century and was probably made in Lucelle, France. The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-144v: Etymologiae by Isidore...
Dates:
12th-13th century
Composite manuscript containing four texts by Horace and Persius, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 198
Contents
Contains four texts in the same hand.ff. 1r-16v: Satires by Persiusff. 17r-28v: Ars Poetica by Horaceff. 29r-85r:Satires Book I and II by Horaceff. 85v-124r: Epistles Book I and II by HoraceThe texts will be described separately under the folios and titles listed above. ...
Dates:
late 15th century
Composite manuscript containing four texts by Pseudo-Ramon Llull, c 1525
Item
Identifier: MS 122
Contents
This manuscript contains texts related to medicine or alchemy, all attributed to Ramon Llull, a Catalan philosopher who lived from around 1235 to around 1315. Many alchemical works were misattributed to Llull in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, including those in this manuscript. The versions of these texts included in this manuscript were written around 1525 and the hand seems to be Italian, but a colophon on f. 128v states that it was written by Franciscus de Galliciis, which...
Dates:
c 1525
Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 147
Contents
This manuscript contains nine main texts in several hands, although the last section itself is made of various notes written by different people. The whole text has been annotated by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt, which could mean this volume was his personal handbook at some point.f. 1r: List of Contents, written by John of Haghen, Prior of the Carthusians at Erfurt.ff. 1v-2v: Tract on the...
Dates:
15th century