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 leaves or gatherings that are sewn or tipped in to form one volume.
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 42
Contents
Contains two texts bound together, in two main hands.ff. 1r-6r: Kalendar, probably connected with Rochester.ff. 7r-130r: Book of Hours, featuring the Hours of Saint Ninian, and prayers inserted by Scottish hands.The texts are described separately under MS 42/ff. 1r-6r and MS 42/ff. 7r-130r. Writing The primary hand is a Gothic hand, with laterally compressed letters. Most...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 128
Contents
Writing
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
Composite manuscript including two texts, 14th century
Item
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
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 70
Contents
Contains two texts in the same hand.ff. 1r-91v: 'Commentum super Lamentationes Jeremie' (Commentary on the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah), by Hugh of Saint Victor.ff. 92r-183v: 'De Mistico Sompnio' (On the Dream of King Nebuchadnezzar), by Richard of Saint Victor.The texts are described separately, under MS 70/ff. 1r-91v; and MS 70/ff. 92r-183v. Writing A good 15th century Gothic hand, uniform and...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, 13th century
Item
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
Composite manuscript including two texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 23
Contents
The manuscript is a 15th-century composite containing works relating to virgin saints. It is German or Dutch. The works contained within it are detailed separately below.ff.1r-40v: Revelatio Nova Itineris et Passionis Undecim Milium Virginum Martyrum (The Passion of the Eleven Thousand Virgins). This text is related to Saint Ursula.ff.40v-72v: Vita et Legenda Beate Katherine Virginis (The Life and...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript (Macer; Ortolf von Bayerlant;etc.), 1463-1464; end of the 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 329
Scope and Contents
This is a composite manuscripts containing several texts, written in southern Germany or in Austria in the second half of the 15th century. It is a collection of recipes and other texts, mainly medical and almost entirely in German, made up of four parts which differ much in script and in the quality of the paper.
For a full description of the manuscript, see the bibiography note in "Additional description".
Dates:
1463-1464; end of the 15th century
Composite manuscript (Miscellanea Franciscana), second half of the 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 328
Scope and Contents
This is a composite manuscripts containing several texts, many incomplete, written in the Netherlands in the second half of the 15th century.ff. 1-8: A dialogue between Inimicus and Zelator.ff. 8rv: For the congregation at Fontenay le Comte in 1457.ff. 9-20v, 64-115v: John Pecham, De...
Dates:
second half of the 15th century
Composite manuscript (Miscellanea theologica), 1431, 1433, 1434, and mid 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 331
Scope and Contents
This is a composite manuscripts containing several texts, written in Germany (probably at the Charterhouse of Erfurt) in 1431, 1433, 1434 and in the middle of the 15th century. The title on the label on the front cover, "Liber pro nouellis militibus Cristi. Hic multa doctrinalia deuocionalia et moralia collecta sunt", and the words "Liber nouiciorum" in red on f. 1 show that this was a collection of use to young monks especially. Many of the pieces are common in manuscripts of this date. A...
Dates:
1431, 1433, 1434, and mid 15th century
Composite manuscripts including two texts by Sallust, 1462
Item
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