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Contents Johannes de Utino, a Franciscan friar from Mortegliano (near Udine) in the first half of the fourteenth century, composed a diagrammatic chronicle of universal history from Adam to Christ, a compilation of Biblical and post-biblical history. MS 189 Johannes's work chronicle in roll form, over 5 metres in length, and arranged around a central genealogical diagrammatical 'tree' running down the centre of the length of the roll. The first half of the roll covers Biblical history, while the...

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There are four sets of lists contained on ff. 338r-342v. Ff. 338r-v is 'de romanis pontificis' ('Roman popes'); ff. 339r-v is 'de romanorum Imperatoribus' ('Roman generals'); ff. 339v-341v records 'Sedes episcopales' ('Episcopal seats'); ff. 341v-342r contains a 'Tabula monasteriorum Scocie' ('Table of monasteries in Scotland'), and f. 342v covers 'Vicecomitatus Scocie' (Sheriffdomes in Scotland').

Scope and Contents This section of the manuscript is headed Flores Dictaminis Petri de Vineis et primo de querimonia Frederici Rubrica and contains the Flores dictaminis by Pietro delle Vigne, also found under the name Summa dictaminis or Ars dictaminis. It is an 'anthology' divided in six books, which contain: the controversial correspondence between Frederic II against the...

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Printed pamphlet entitled Francisci Catii. Oratio Ad S. D. N. Clementem VIII Pont. Max.Pro Sereniss. et excelso Principe Carolo Emanuele Sabaudiae Duce. etc., by Francesco Caccia. Published in Rome in 1594.

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Printed pamphlet entitled Io. Antonii Viperani Orationes III. Habitae sacello summorum Pontificum inter sacra solennia. Gregorio XIII. Pont. Max., by Giovanni Antonio Viperanio. Published in 1579 in Perugia.

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Printed pamphlet entitled Pompeii Vgonii A Bibliotheca Ascanii Colvmnae Card. Amplissimi Oratio in Fvnere Vrbani VII.Pont. Opt. Max. Ad Sacrum Senatum Habita in Basilica Vaticana Prid. Non. Octobris. Anno. M. D. CX., by Pompeo Ugoni. PUblished in Rome in 1591.

Scope and Contents Volume of newspaper clippings, letters, and printed pamphlets. The subjects covered change with the orientation of the book:From the front, the subject is the Irish Potato Famine, and contains materials dated 1845-1846. Interleaved throughout the newspaper clippings are letters and notes, as well as pamphlets about potato disease, many of which are written by Johnston. Other sources for the pamphlets include the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, reports by John F. Hodges, the...

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Three books, Italian manuscripts, one of which mentions Pope Alexander VII