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Compilation manuscripts

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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:

MS 128: 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

MS 131: 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

MS 132: Composite manuscript including three texts, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 132
Contents This manuscript seems to contain a of compilation of astrological works, perhaps for teaching. It is 15th century. The different texts are listed below and detailed separately.ff. 1r-46r: Excerpts from assorted works by Michael Scot, including Liber quatuor distinctionum and Liber introductorius.ff. 46v-47v: De significatione septem planetarum in domibus by Gergis (or...
Dates: 15th century

MS 134: 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

MS 135: Composite manuscript including four different texts, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 135
Contents Contains four texts, written in at least three different hands. ff. 1r-2v; continued on f. 158v: notes on Logic, author unknown ff. 3r-87v; 89r-98v; 116r-118v: Commentaries on the 'Ars Vetus', by Walter Burley f. 88r: inserted 16th century Italian letter, signed by 'Vester Ludovicus' ff. 99r-109r: Incomplete 'Logica Magna' by Paul of Venice ...
Dates: 15th century

MS 138: Composite manuscript including seventeen texts, c 1455

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Identifier: MS 138
Contents MS 138 contains many small texts and fragments bound together, by different hands. This manuscript belonged to the Carthusian monastery at Erfurt, and seems to have been compiled initially in the mid-15th century. The evidence of the inclusion of various texts in different hands indicates that this volume was taken up and added to by different inhabitants of the monastery at Erfurt. The texts are described separately, but are generally quite fragmentary and difficult to...
Dates: c 1455

MS 139: Composite manuscript including seven texts, early 14th century

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Identifier: MS 139
Contents Contains seven texts, all in the same hand.ff. 1r-7v: the beginning of the 'Decretum Gratiani,' by Gratianff. 8r-53r: 'Summa introductoria' by Bonaguida de Arezzoff. 53v-54r : A shortened English Kalendar (not Sarum)ff. 56r-67v: 'Practica sive usus dictaminis' by Lawrence of Aquileiaff. 68r-88v: Book VIII of 'Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum' by Guillaume Durandff. 90r-103r: 'Speculum ecclesiae' by Cardinal Hugo de...
Dates: early 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 144: 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

MS 147: Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 15th century

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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