Manuscript fragments
Subject
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Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
Book of Swedish Laws, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 159
Scope and Contents
This manuscript is a 15th-century book of law from Linköping, Sweden. It comprises the royal and municipal law of Sweden, laws of marriage, inheritance, land, buildings, commerce, navigation, magistracy, oaths, loyalty, murder, homicide, premeditated assault [?], theft, estate law and church law. There are also rules to be observed by those about to receive the Eucharist, with some other liturgical material.Two fly-leaves of vellum are fragments of a noted breviary of the 13th...
Dates:
15th century
Collectarium (Cistercian), 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 29
Contents
The manuscript is a 14th century Collectarium. The collectarium is a book that contains Collects, which are short general prayers of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. This version originated in Italy; a Perugian provenance is clearly indicated, with Sienese connections. It is also specifically Cistercian.The Kalendar starts on f.1r.In the Kalendar, the distinctively Cistercian marks are: 10 January: Viliemi [i.e.Guillelmi] (Bishop)...
Dates:
14th century
Commentaries on the Bible by Johannes de Indagine, 1460s
Item
Identifier: MS 71
Contents
A 15th century autograph manuscript (the author of the work is also the scribe of the manuscript) from the Carthusian Charterhouse at Erfurt. The author and scribe is Johannes de Indagine, who was a Carthusian monk and prior connected to Erfurt Charterhouse and other Carthusian houses in Germany in the fifteenth century. The manuscript includes a collection of commentaries on parts of the bible, including Paul's letters, the Song of Songs, and other parts of the old and new testaments....
Dates:
1460s
Compendium theologicae veritatis by Hugh Ripelin, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 74
Contents
14th century German manuscript of the 'Compendium theologicae veritatis', one of the most widely read theological manuals or textbooks of the Middle Ages. It is divided into seven books: 1 The Nature of God; 2 The Creation; 3 On Sin; 4 The Incarnation; 5 On Grace, Beatitudes and the Sacraments; 6 The Sacraments; 7 The Last Things. It has been attributed to a variety of authors but current research points to Hugh Ripelin (also called Hugo Argentinensis), a Dominican theologian at Strasburg,...
Dates:
14th 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 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 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
Composite manuscript containing nine texts, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 151
Contents
Contains nine texts bound together, in different hands.Of note, the endpaper at the beginning of the manuscript is an interesting fragment from an Antiphoner of the 9th or 10th century. The other endpaper is a textual fragment too, although from later that the 9th/10th centuries.ff. 1r-8v: Bull of Pope Honorius III to Saint Francis and the brothers of the Orderff. 9r-13r: Bull of Pope Gregory IXff. 14r-50r: Bull of Pope Nicholas III from 1279,...
Dates:
14th century
Composite manuscript containing six texts by Ramon Llull, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 117
Contents
This manuscript is a miscellany of texts associated with Ramon Llull, a 13th century philosopher. It is 15th century and probably Italian. The contents are as follows:ff. 1r-10v: Ars generalis ultima by Ramon Llullff. 12r-14v: Liber de Accidente et Substantia by Ramon Llullff. 15r-22r: Alphabetum puerile logices by Ramon Llullff. 22v-23r: ...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript containing twenty-nine texts, early 16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 114
Contents
Contains twenty-nine texts, all in the same hand. The collection is a curious one, and contains at the beginning and end a number of curious proverbs (copied in full by Catherine Borland, see Appendix IV, pp. 335-6 of her catalogue). The end papers have been taken from an English manuscript of the early 15th century, and contain interesting fragments of English religious verse (also copied in full by Catherine Borland, see Appendix IV, pp. 334-5 of her catalogue).The manuscript...
Dates:
early 16th century