Fourteenth century (dates CE)

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This is a manuscript of Nicholas of Salerno's Antidotarium, a twelfth century book of medicinal recipes, dating from the last quarter of the fourteenth century, most likely from England. Likely provenance includes the Hale family of Alderley, based on the bookplate on fol. 33v. It appears to be in its original parchment binding.

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A Bible in the usual order as described by N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, vol. 1 (Oxford, 1969) 96-97.

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This is a Spanish manuscript from circa 1380, which contains Avicenna's Canon medicinae, liber V, translated by Gherardo da Sabbioneta.

Abstract This manuscript was produced in Southern France, possibly in Avignon, in the mid-fourteenth century. It contains the text of Clement V's Constitutiones clementinae with the surrounding commentary of Giovanni d'Andrea (Johannes d'Andreae). There is some loss of text. On fol. 1r is an eighteen-line miniature showing an enthroned Pope (Clement) flanked by groups of cardinals and bishops and, kneeling before him, a bare-headed cleric presenting a book. On the lower portion of the same folio,...

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Contents: Table of contents followed by a brief publishing history of the texts which describes article 6 as "ineditus" and probably "spurius." Later additions, in lead, in a twentieth-century hand; De Comprobatione Aetatis Sextae; a chronology of the Roman Empire from the birth of Christ through Michael; Table of contents; De fide catholica; Unidentified text attributed to Jerome; In libros Veteris et Novi Testamenti Proemia; Allegorie Quaedam Sacrae Scripturae.

Abstract This is a mid-fourteenth-century French manuscript, which contains the text of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum, as well as a table of the chapters for Book II, part 2 through Book III, part 2 and the Office of Saint Catherine. There is one seven-line historiated pink initial on a blue background, with blue and red acanthus leaves extending along the inner margin, showing a three quarter portrait, possibly of the author, clad in his black Augustinian robes presenting a book. The initial...

Abstract ff. 1r-2v [Title in upper margin:] Priulegium Ciuitatis bononieInc: In Christi Nomine Amen. Anno a natiuitate domini Quadrigentesimo uigesimo tercio. Incaepit imperare Theodosius minor et imperauit viginti sex annis. Theodosius dei gratia Romanorum Imperator semper augustus in imperio constitutus a theodosio suo Patruo qui per potentiam imperium acquisiuit.Expl.: Si quis autem tam audax forte extiterit qui huic nostre sententie non satisfecerit presenti Anno vita...

Abstract This is 1301 roll from England includes a detailed inventory of the jewels and other precious objects in the possession of King Edward I of England. The locations of the objects are described, as well as the chests and boxes in which they are kept and items which are gifts include the donor's name. The headings for the different sections are written in a two-line script enclosed in a frame. The roll is composed of two membranes stitched together. The parchment is worn and although the...

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ff. 1r-2v [Prologue, followed by a table of contents:] Incipit prologus super legendas sanctorum quas compilauit frater iacobus racione ianuensis de ordine fratrum predicatorum. Uniuersum tempus presentis uite in quatuor distinguitur scilicet in tempus deuiationis reuocationis siue renouationis. . . ff. 2v-266v De adventu domini Aduentus domini per quattuor septimanas agitur ad significandum quod quattuor sunt aduentus scilicet in carnem.

Abstract Table of contents: Title page written in an ornate nineteenth-century gothic hand; Prologus primus super historiam policronicam Capitulum Primum; alphabetical subject index to article 2 beginning with "Abraham ii octauo" and ending at "de zorobabel iii x;" a brief description of the six ages of man added at the end of the index; two short lists added later: an excerpt from the Domesday Book:: Eratta de Domesday Regis. . . and a list of English kings: Reges Anglie ab aduentu dacorum usque ad...