Manuscripts

In epistulam ad Hebraeos: fragment

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Description: This manuscript is a fragment from a binding; copied out by an unknown scribe. The majority of the fragment appears to be from Chapter 10, Homily 17, which is concerned with the Book of Hebrews 9:24-26. The text is in Greek in black ink with red initials; it is undated but possibly from the 11th through 13th centuries. The leaf is damaged, with an old repair; also stained, with missing text.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: Undated.
Call number: mssHM 83587
Creator: John Chrysostom (-407)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In Library, 1940.

Irish Poems

Manuscripts

A manuscript collection of Gaelic verse, 11th to 19th century, selected and copied by the scribe Tadhg O'Connaill, in 1827. Written in Gaelic script with occasional English comments.

mssHM 4543

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Lex Salica emendata: manuscript fragment

Manuscripts

This manuscript fragment consists of 6 leaves (3 imperfect) from a late 9th century copy of the Lex Salica emendata. Manuscript is written in Carolingian minuscule, red headings, and rubricated initials, 17 lines to a page. The fragments contain portions of Chapters 4, 5, 6, 35, 36, and 39. These parts mention, among other things, laws relating to robberies, reparation for damages, horses, and homicides.

mssHM 80795

Monastic breviary, fragment : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-2v. [Breviary, fragment]. Latin. Two non-consecutive leaves of a monastic breviary, bound in reverse order, containing part of the offices at matins and at prime for a confessor bishop and for a confessor who was not bishop. Status of text: Fragment.

mssHM 1045

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Camille Desmoulins manuscript fragment about the freedom of the press

Manuscripts

A fragment from a longer manuscript, possibly from Le Vieux Cordelier, number seven; the two-page autograph manuscript concerns the freedom of the press. In the upper left corner is the number 13 and directly below is an autograph note in another hand dated 1865; the two pages are heavily corrected and lined through, though the text remains legible on both pages. The accompanying material, all in French, includes a catalogue description, a partial transcription, and further information about the sale of the manuscript.

mssHM 84413

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Gradual

Manuscripts

Gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated initials, five-line red staff with square notation. There is some water damage on the bottom of the leaves but no loss of text.

mssHM 82936

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John Murray authentification of a fragment of an autograph poem by Lord Byron

Manuscripts

The authenticated fragment is: Oscar of Alva (Hours of Idlenes), see mssHM 12379.

mssHM 7840

In epistulam ad Hebraeos: fragment

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