manuscript waste
Subject
Subject Source: Other
Scope Note: Manuscript leaves removed from a bound library book, as distinct from recycled document, either bound or unbound.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
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
Gospel Lectionary, 12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 222
Contents
A lectionary is a liturgical book which contains the readings (or lessons) for worship on any given day of the liturgical calendar. The text contained in this manuscript begins with the lesson for Easter Sunday. It also includes ekphonetic symbols, that is musical notations. The musical recitation of the Gospel is still used in the Greek Church, though it rests wholly on tradition, since the meaning of the ekphonetic signs is sometimes obscure. The probably originally showed the rise and...
Dates:
12th century
Les Ordonnances de la Toison d'Or, late 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 160
Contents
This manuscript contains the ordinances of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a Roman Catholic order of chivalry founded in Bruges by Philip the Good in 1430. The Order still exists in Spain and Austria. This is a late medieval copy in French of the document that determined the practices and rules of this royal Order.ContentsTable of contents I: the title on f. 1r reads: Sensuit la table de ce present...
Dates:
late 15th century
Livre de Receptes, 15th-16th century
Item
Identifier: MS 172
Contents
This manuscript contains a book of recipes for different ointments and medicines for common illnesses and injuries, including several recipes for treating the plague.The text starts on f. 1r with the title: Recepte pour faire le Baulme, followed by the words: Prenez une once de mastic. And ends on f. 21r with the title: Resepte pour les plez venene dc madamoiselle...
Dates:
15th-16th century
Officia Liturgica, mid 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 337
Scope and Contents
This is a manuscript containing offices for the use of nuns, written in Germany in the middle of the 15th century.
For a full description of the manuscript, see the bibiography note in "Additional description".
Dates:
mid 15th century
Psalter, early 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 301
Contents
This manuscript is a psalter written in Germany for Carthusian use, in the early 15th century.
For a full description of the manuscript, including writing and provenance, see the bibiography note in "Additional description".
Dates:
early 15th century
Psalter [incomplete], 15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 63
Contents
This manuscript contains an incomplete psalter in Latin, written in the 15th century, and of Dutch origin. It contains from Psalm lxxx, Exultate Deo, to end of Psalter. The ferial anthems are included passim, and the chapters, hymns, versicles, responses, and collects of the ferial day hours are added in their places after the corresponding sections of Psalm cxviii, Beati immaculati (Prime, f....
Dates:
15th century
Statuta Anglie (List of English Statutes), 14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 156
Contents
This manuscript contains a list of medieval statutes and other laws issued by the Kingdom of England before the development of the English Parliament, and a Registrum Brevium, which is collection of writs used by legal practitioners, especially in the late Middle Ages.ContentsStatutes: start on f. 1r and ends on f. 29v, and contains the following statutes: Magna Carta,...
Dates:
14th century