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Excerpta antiqua;, or, a collection of original manuscripts
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Longo Manuscripts Collection
Manuscripts
The collection consists of two boxes. Box 1: Volumes and Documents, approx. 1575-1822, HM 83505-83510 ; Box 2: Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1843-1931, HM 83511-83529. The material deals with the history of medicine, midwifery, gynecology, obstetrics and childbirth; this collection forms part of the Lawrence D. Longo and Betty Jeanne Longo Collection in Reproductive Biology.
mssHM 83505-83529
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Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]
Manuscripts
ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.
mssHM 1041