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Angels

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Commentariorum In Hierarchiam Coelestem S Dionysii Areopagitae by Hugo of Saint Victor, 13th century

 part
Identifier: MS 115/ff. 29v-72r
Contents This section of the manuscript contains the Commentariorum In Hierarchiam Coelestem S Dionysii Areopagitae by Hugo of Saint Victor. It is a commentary on the Celestial Hierarchy, a work written by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in the 5th century. Hugh of Saint Victor was a theologian writing in the 12th century.In this manuscript, this text is titled De differentia mundane theologie...
Dates: 13th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including six texts

Fragment of a verse beginning 'Bial De [dhuse] Aingeal geal alainn', 19 October 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/119
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a verse probably collected from Janet MacIsaac or Currie, Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Bial De [dhuse] Aingeal geal alainn, Aingeal an dorust gach tai[gh], Gus an tig an la m[h]air[each]' [Urnaigh Smaladh Teine or Prayer for Smooring the Fire].

Dates: 19 October 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Unidentified dissertation on the differences between angels, demons, and men, 13th-14th century

 part
Identifier: MS 107/f. 70v
Contents

This folio features a short dissertation on the differences between angels, demons, and men.



Writing

This section is written in the same hand as the previous sections. It is late 13th-century Gothic.

Dates: 13th-14th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Western Medieval Manuscripts / Composite manuscript including twenty-four texts