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| x Fitzwilliam Virginal Book |
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this...
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| x Bakhshali Manuscript |
The Bakhshali Manuscript is an Ancient Indian mathematical manuscript written on birch bark which was found near the village of Bakhshali in 1881 in what was then the North-West Frontier Province of British India (in Pakistan since the Partition of...
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| x Auchinleck manuscript |
The Auchinleck Manuscript, NLS Adv. MS 19.2.1, currently forms part of the collection of the National Library of Scotland. It is an illuminated manuscript copied on parchment nearly seven hundred years ago in London. The manuscript, or MS, provides...
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| x Poppleton manuscript |
The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex likely compiled by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick. The manuscript contains numerous works, such as a map of the world (with...
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| x Hendregadredd manuscript |
The Hendregadredd Manuscript (Welsh: Llawysgrif Hendregadredd), is a medieval Welsh manuscript containing an anthology the poetry of the Poets of the Princes. It was rediscovered in 1910 after disappearing in the early nineteenth century. It was...
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| x Göttingen manuscript |
The Göttingen manuscript is the earliest known work devoted entirely to modern chess. It is a Latin text of 33 leaves held at the University of Göttingen. A quarto parchment manuscript of 33 leaves, ff. 1–15a are a discussion of twelve chess...
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| x Glenmasan manuscript |
The Glenmasan manuscript, is a 15th-century Scottish vellum manuscript in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, where it is catalogued as Adv. MS 72.2.3. It was previously held in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, where it was classified as...
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| x Halliwell Manuscript |
The Halliwell Manuscript, also known as the Regius Poem, is the first known Masonic text. It consists of 64 written pages in poetic form.
The general consensus on the age of the document dates its writing to around 1390. The manuscript was...
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| x Manuscript 3227a |
The codex Nürnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a (169 folia) is a manuscript dating from around 1389, preserved today in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (Nürnberg). It is frequently attributed to Hanko Döbringer.
It contains recipes for a...
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| x Music manuscript |
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Music manuscripts are handwritten sources of music. Generally speaking, they can be written on paper or parchment. If the manuscript contains the composer's handwriting it is called an autograph. Music manuscripts can contain musical notation as...
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| x Dublin Virginal Manuscript |
The Dublin Virginal Manuscript is an important anthology of keyboard music kept in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, where it has been since the 17th century under the present shelf-list TCD Ms D.3.29.
The Manuscript was probably purchased by...
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| x Bower Manuscript |
The Bower Manuscript is a Sanskrit-language manuscript written in the Brahmi alphabet. It was purchased by Hamilton Bower in Kucha from Haji Ghulam Qadir. Bower forwarded the manuscript, made up of 51 birch-bark leaves, to the Asiatic Society of...
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| x Fernaig manuscript |
The Fernaig manuscript is a document containing approximately 4,200 lines of verse consisting largely of political and religious themes. The manuscript was composed between 1688 and 1693 by Donnchadh MacRath in Wester Ross and is notable for the...
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| x Parville manuscript |
The Parville manuscript is a manuscript currently in possession of the UC Berkeley Music Library (catalogue number MS-778; full number US-BEM 778). Along with the Bauyn manuscript, it is one of the most important sources for French harpsichord music...
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| x Ritson Manuscript |
The Ritson Manuscript is a late fifteenth-century English choirbook. Along with the Pepys Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the Eton, Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks; it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have been written for...
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| x Topkapi manuscript |
The term Topkapi manuscript refers to a very early manuscript of Qur'an, and this manuscript is currently kept in the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
It is dated to the First century Hijra.
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| x Bauyn manuscript |
The Bauyn manuscript is a manuscript currently in possession of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris (catalogue number Rés. Vm7 674-675). It is, along with several printed collections and the Parville manuscript, one of the most important...
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| x Pepys Manuscript |
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The Pepys Manuscript is a late fifteenth-century English choirbook. Along with the Ritson Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the Eton, Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks, it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have been written for...
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| x Old Hall Manuscript |
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The Old Hall Manuscript (British Library, Additional MS 57950) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for late Medieval...
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| x Bryennios manuscript |
Bryennios manuscript, also known as Codex Hierosolymitanus, is an early Christian Bible manuscript, discovered in 1873. It includes a list of the 27 canonical book Old Testament, in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew, similar to Epiphanius' canon. J.-P....
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| x Gruuthuse manuscript |
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The Gruuthuse manuscript is a medieval compilation, the oldest core of which is dated about 1395, while the youngest unfinished contributions date from around 1408. The manuscript is the only known source for a large number of Middle Dutch texts....
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| x Qur'an in the House of Manuscript in Sana'a |
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The Sana'a manuscripts, found in Yemen in 1972, are considered by some to be the oldest existent version of the Qur'an. Although the text has been dated to the first two decades of the eighth century carbon 14 tests indicate that some of the...
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| x Voynich manuscript |
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The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book. It is thought to have been written in the 15th or 16th century. The author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown.
Over its recorded existence, the Voynich...
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| x Lambeth Choirbook |
The Lambeth Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the fifteenth century and containing much music by Tudor-period composers. The major contributors are Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford; between them they contributed at least ten of its...
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| x Caius Choirbook |
The Caius Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the fifteenth century and containing much music by Tudor-period composers. The book appears to originate from Arundel in Sussex, and to have been created sometime in the late 1520s; the then...
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| x Caedmon manuscript |
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MS Junius 11 (Caedmon or Junius manuscript) is one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices. It contains works known by the titles Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan.
The manuscript is in the Bodleian Library at the University of...
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| x Ellesmere manuscript |
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The Ellesmere Chaucer, also sometimes known as 'the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales' is an early 15th century manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (MS EL 26 C 9)....
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| x Hengwrt manuscript |
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The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, where it is known as MS Peniarth 392D.
This was one of the collection of manuscripts amassed at the...
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| x Armenian Illuminated manuscript |
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Armenian illuminated manuscripts form a separate tradition, related to other forms of Medieval Armenian art, but also to the Byzantine tradition. The earliest surviving examples date from the Golden Age of Armenian art and literature in the 5th...
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| x Mongolian manuscript maps |
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Mongolian manuscript maps usually mapped administrative divisions (leagues, banners or aimags) in Greater Mongolia. They gave a bird's eye view of the area depicted, making them somewhat similar to Pictorial maps. Such manuscript maps have been used...
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| x Hval Manuscript |
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The Hval Manuscript or "Hval's Miscellany" is a 353 page 15th century Bosnian Church codex.
It was written in 1404 by Hval Krstyanin in Bosnian/Croatian Cyrillic Script (bosančica or bosanica) in ikavian dialect with a Glagolitic introduction that...
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| x Eton Choirbook |
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The Eton Choirbook (Eton College MS. 178) is a richly illuminated manuscript collection of English sacred music composed during the late fifteenth century. It was one of very few collections of Latin liturgical music to survive the Reformation, and...
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| x Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis |
The Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis, which is also known as the Stockholm Papyrus, dates from perhaps the 3rd or 4th Century A.D. and reports chemical recipes in use in Egypt sometime between the 1st and 3rd centuries A.D. It is written in ancient Greek....
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| x Codex Leicester |
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The Codex Leicester (previously known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The codex is named after Thomas Coke, later created Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1717. Of Leonardo's 30 scientific...
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| x Dead Sea scrolls |
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The Dead Sea scrolls consist of about 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Qumran Wadi near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest...
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| x Codex Vaticanus |
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The Codex Vaticanus, (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209; no. B or 03 Gregory-Aland, δ 1 von Soden), is one of the oldest and most valuable extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible (Old and New Testament) with three lacunae. The codex is named for...
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| x Heracles Papyrus |
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The Heracles Papyrus (Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331) is a fragment of 3rd century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labors of Heracles. It contains three unframed colored line drawings of the first of the Labors, the killing of...
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| x Heiligenstadt Testament |
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The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven to his brothers Carl and Johann at Heiligenstadt (today part of Vienna) on 6 October 1802. It reflects his despair over his increasing deafness and his desire to overcome his...
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| x Carmen Campidoctoris |
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The Carmen Campidoctoris ("Song of the Campeador") is an anonymous medieval Latin epic poem, consisting in 128 sapphic-adonic verses in 32 stanzas, with one line from an unfinished thirty-third. The earliest poem about the Spanish folk hero El Cid...
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| x Codex Sinaiticus |
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Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmarks and references: London, Brit. Libr., Additional Manuscripts 43725; Gregory-Aland nº א [Aleph] or 01, [Soden δ 2]) is one of the most important hand-written ancient copies of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text...
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| x Codex Sangallensis |
Codex Sangallensis, designated by Δ or 037 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 76 (von Soden), is a diglot Greek-Latin uncial manuscript of the Gospels. Usually dated paleographically to the 9th, only according to opinions of few paleographers to...
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| x Vienna Genesis |
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The Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr.31) is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th Century. It is the oldest well-preserved, surviving, illustrated biblical codex....
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| x Codex Brixianus |
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The Codex Brixianus (Brescia, Biblioteca Civica Queriniana, s.n.), designated by f, is a 6th century Latin Gospel Book which was probably produced in Italy. The manuscript contains 419 folios. The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver ink,...
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| x Codex Bobiensis |
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Codex Bobiensis (k) is a fragmentary Latin manuscript of the bible. Specifically, it is an example of a Vetus Latina bible, which were used from the 2nd century until Jerome's Latin translation, the Vulgate, was written in the 5th century. The text...
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| x Book of Mulling |
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The Book of Mulling or less commonly, Book of Moling (Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 60 (A. I. 15)), is an Irish pocket Gospel Book from the late 8th century. The text collection includes the four Gospels, a liturgical service which includes the...
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| x Stockholm Codex Aureus |
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The Stockholm Codex Aureus (also known as the "Codex Aureus of Canterbury") is an Insular Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, and is now in the Swedish Royal Library at Stockholm. Southumbria...
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| x Codex Argenteus |
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The Codex Argenteus (or "Silver Bible") is a 6th century manuscript, originally containing bishop Ulfilas's 4th century translation of the Bible into the Gothic language. Of the original 336 folia, 188 (including the Speyer fragment discovered in...
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| x Vienna Coronation Gospels |
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See also Coronation Gospels for other manuscripts with the name
The Vienna Coronation Gospels, also known as the Treasury Gospels (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Schatzkammer, Inv. XIII 18) is a late 8th Century illuminated Gospel Book....
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