Fragments in bindings
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Used to flag manuscript fragments used in bindings or as fly-leaves in bound volumes (include both fragments that are still in situ, or fragments that have been removed and are now discrete items).
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Composite manuscript containing two texts (plus insertions), 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 149
Contents
Contains one text bound together with a collection of documents, in different hands.f. 1r-27v: 'Provinciale' by William Lyndwoodf. 29r-32v: Copies of a document concerning forms of absolution of the 15th centuryf. 30r also contains 12 lines of English and Latin verse and also a copy of a document dated at Stamford, 1481, concerning a Lincolnshire will.The texts are described...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including five texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 90
Contents
Contains five different texts, all five in the same hand.ff. 1r-13v: ‘Meditationes’ [incomplete] by Pseudo-Augustine of Hippoff. 14r-107r: ‘Meditationes’ by Anselm of Canterburyff. 107r-117v: ‘Speculum Peccatorum’ff. 118r-129r: Meditationsf. 129r: ‘Enarrationes in Psalmos’ [incomplete] by Augustine of HippoThe texts are described separately, under MS 90/ff. 1r-13v; MS 90/ff. 14r-107r; MS 90/ff. 107r-117v; MS...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including seventeen texts, c 1455
Item
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
Composite manuscript including twenty-five texts, 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 110
Contents
Contains twenty-five texts, in many different hands. This manuscript is German, from the Monastery of Saints Peter and Paul at Erfurt. It was composed in the 15th century. The texts are various theological tracts in Latin. Some of the sections are divided by leather markers. The contents are as follows:Flyleaves: A small slip of paper pasted in at the beginning has a short note of contents. Some other manuscripts have been used in the binding, including part of an 11th-century...
Dates:
15th century
Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts, 13th-14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 107
Contents
Contains twenty-four texts, in two different hands. This manuscript was made in England and dates from the 13th-14th century; the texts are various religious tracts in Latin, Old French, and Middle English.Flyleaves: Unidentified Latin text and the start of a Contents list in a 17th-century handff. 1r-28v: De Miseria Condicionis Humane (On the wretchedness of the human condition) by Pope Innocent...
Dates:
13th-14th century
Composite manuscript including two texts, early 14th century
Item
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
Decem tractatus astronomiae by Guido Bonatti, 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 125
Contents
This manuscript was created in the 14th century, probably in England or France. It features work by Guido Bonatti, one of the most celebrated astrologers of the 13th century. He lived in Italy, served as an advisor to Frederick II, and was a mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. The manuscript contains Decem tractatus astronomiae (Ten Treatises on Astronomy), which are related to his Liber...
Dates:
14th century
Dialogi de Miraculis Sanctorum Patrum by Gregory I, also known as Dialogi, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 101
Contents
This manuscript contains the Dialogi (Dialogues) by pope Gregory I (c. 540–604), also known as Saint Gregory the Great. He was an influential statesman and prolific religious writer, considered doctor and father of the Church, and revered as saint by several Christian traditions. The Dialogi are a collection of miracles and astounding deeds done by saints and other holy people. The text is...
Dates:
12th century
Fragments, 9th-15th century
File
Identifier: MS 211
Scope and Contents
MS 211 is a collection of approx. 55 manuscript fragments, mainly rescued from bindings in which they were used as waste. They were collected by Laing over the course of many years. There are 35 main fragments, and 17 more in MS 211/XXXVI (these were deemed too small to be catalogued by Catherine Borland).
Each of them is described separately. See individual catalogue entries for more details.
Dates:
9th-15th century
Fragments of the Auchinleck Manuscript containing two texts, 1330s
Item
Identifier: MS 218
Contents
These fragments consist of four leaves of the famous Auchinleck Manuscript, held by the National Library of Scotland. This manuscript was written in the 1330s in London and contains a collection on Middle English works believed to provide unique insight into the 14th century, not least because some of the Middle English texts within it do not appear elsewhere. These fragments were separated from the main manuscript, and seem to have been used for covers for books.Two of the...
Dates:
1330s