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  Collation Model for LJS 16: [Speculum historiale, Books 25-28].

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  A volume, probably the third from a set of three, comprising Books 25 to 28 of the Speculum historiale of Vincent of Beauvais. The volume is incomplete, breaking off at the beginning of Chapter 80 of Book 28, although the table of contents for Book 28 lists 102 chapters (f. 148r-148v) and the Speculum historiale when complete runs to 32 books.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1020: Lectiones ex[i]mi philosophi...

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  Lectures on the first, second, and fifth books of Aristotle's Physics.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 104: Le constitutione delle Suore...

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  Constitutions of the Dominican sisters of the third order of the monastery of Santo Vincentio in Florence, called Annalena, which was founded in 1494.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1070: Genelogies of the Erles of Lecestre and Chester [manuscript].

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  Genealogy of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, tracing his descent from the earls of Leicester and Chester, beginning with individuals of the 11th and 12th centuries, and providing the heraldic devices of the principal members of these families. Although the genealogy may have been compiled in association with Robert Dudley's appointment as lieutenant of the Order of the Garter in 1572 or the birth of his illegitimate son in 1574, Robert Dudley is mentioned in the introduction and is represented by the final coat of arms (f. 17v), although the lack of his name among those of his siblings is noted in a late 16th- or early 17th-century hand (f. 18r).

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1080: [Theological miscellany].

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  Writings of Nilus the Elder on the principles of asceticism and religious life; a sermon by John of Damascus about vices and virtues in religious life; three books from Ambrose's De officiis, an ecclesiastical handbook about the ministers of the Church, with marginal annotations and Biblical cross-references; sermons expounding the beliefs of the Carthusian order about regulations, solitary living, and abstinence; and excerpts from the Distichs of Dionysius Cato, a collection of proverbial maxims about wisdom and morality, with marginal annotations.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1219: [Collection of laws for the use of the Podestà di Rovigo].

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  A collection of administrative laws, regulations, and guidelines for the ruler of Rovigo, Italy.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 1242: [Annotations : to Graeciae excellentium oratorum, Aeschinis et Demosthenis, orationes adversariae].

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  Two student texts of the Attic orators Demosthenes and Aeschines from the prosecution of Athenian orator Ctesiphon, edited by German humanist Johann Reuchlin, published in Paris by Christian Wechel in 1543, together with an edition of Isocrates' Encomium Helenae published in Paris by Joannes Lodoicus (Jean Loys) in 1538. 64 pages of Demosthenes's oration On the crown have extensive interlinear annotations in Latin and marginal annotations in Greek. The opening of the Helen is annotated in the same manner.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 146: Repartimientto de las tierras...

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  Two lists containing the names of persons who received land by order of the king in the neighborhood of Écija in Andalusia which was taken from the Moros ("Moors") in 1240. Among them are men and women of the royal court, such as ladies in waiting of the queen (f. 1v). The first list (f. 1-11) lists property holders divided by villages, with red paragraph marks at the beginning of descriptions of villages alternating with blue paragraph marks at the beginning of the names of people who received land from that village, with the land area measured in yugadas. The second list was made by order of King Alfonso X and his queen, Violante (f. 14-17). Before it is inserted a document (f. 12) dated "era de mill ccc xx vii," the old Spanish date corresponding to the year 1289. This states that this copy was made from a charter of Alfonso X given at Seville, 2 May, 1282. Folio 13 is blank. (According to Zacour-Hirsch, this list is apparently a version of that of 1263.).

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 218: [Four English devotional works].

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  Four works written in Middle English, with passages in Latin. Texts included are Scale of perfection or Scala perfectionis, Bk. 1, ch. 19-93, and Bk. 2, ch. 1-46, by Walter Hilton; Stimulus amoris, or Prickyng of love, translated by Walter Hilton , attributed to St. Bonaventure; Amor die or Love of God; The Prick of conscience by Richard Rolle.

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  Collation Model for Ms. Codex 58: Theologia naturalis.

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  Latin translation of a Spanish theological and philosophical work attempting to reconcile the natural and supernatural orders of truth, in opposition to the distinction previously made by the Scholastics. The text that appears in printed versions begins after the end of a fairly lengthy prologue (p. 3).

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  Collation Model for Oversize LJS 20: Carta ex[ecutoria] de hidalguia a pedimi[ento]

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  Carta executoria issued under the name of Philip II of Spain in favor of the brothers Juan, Francisco, and Alonso Gaytan de Cuenca (also referred to as Alonso Gaytan de Truxillo), residents of Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia, in response to their pleito de hidalguia (litigation to establish noble status), written in Granada and dated 12 September 1578.

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  Collation Model for LJS 172: [Tabulae directionum et profectionum]. [Tabella sinus recti].

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  Astronomical tables of declinations and ascensions and a table of sines, copied not long after their completion by Regiomontanus in 1467.

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  Collation Model for LJS 184: Liber ethimologiarum.

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  Encyclopedia with emphasis on word origins, arranged by subject. The manuscript follows the standard division into 20 books, except that Book 3, on mathematics, music, and astronomy, is divided into Books 3 and 4, giving the manuscript a total of 21 books. Additional astronomical material, probably from Bede's De temporum ratione, appears at the end of Book 21 (f. 178v-183v), with the running head of Book 21 continuing to the end of the manuscript.

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  Collation Model for LJS 195: [Medical miscellany]

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  Medical compilation with a particular focus on the plague, but also including information on diseases of different parts of the body, urine, medicines, laxatives, water and wine, and the making of pigments for painting and inks for writing (f. 209r-215r).

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  Collation Model for LJS 215: [Scientific miscellany] [manuscript].

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  Compendium of astrological charts; astronomical and astrological tables; treatises on astronomy (calculating equinoxes and solstices, f. 51v; using an astrolabe, f. 68r) and geometry (f. 133r-180v, perhaps lacking ending, with numerous small diagrams and a few small illustrations); and instructions for making dyes and pigments (f. 182r-208r) and medical preparations (f. 224r, 226v). The first three gatherings of the manuscript are lacking, based on the signature of the first extant gathering, and the upper margin has been trimmed. 17th-century table of contents on lower flyleaf.

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  Collation Model for LJS 223: Questiones logicales ... [etc.] [manuscript].

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  Collection of Aristotelian works and other philosophical works, including works on logic; short tracts (some incomplete) on Aristotle's Categories, De interpretatione, and Posterior analytics; and several works on Aristotle's Physics (including commentaries by Antonius Carpentier on both the Physics and the introduction to the Physics by Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples published in 1492), this last group (f. 148v-206r) being more decorated than the rest of the manuscript. The beginning of the Reportata in Logicam Aristotelis has a marginal commentary (f. 22r-29v); in the rest of the manuscript, headings and notes are written in the margins.

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  Collation Model for LJS 232: Trattato delle proportioni et proportionalità

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  Treatise by Benedetto Varchi on proportion as the basis for rithmomachia, a mathematical game played on a chessboard with pieces that each have a shape and a number; a dialogue written by Carlo di Ruberto Strozzi, in which Cosimo Rucellai, who introduced the game to Benedetto Varchi, teaches the rules to Strozzi and Jacopo di Piero Vettori; and other notes on the game. Later unrelated notes and pen trials on leaves before and after main texts. Damage and bleed-through due to oxidation on many leaves.

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  Collation Model for LJS 236: Thesaurus pauperum ... [etc.] [manuscript].

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  Collation model for a medical miscellany with almost the first half of the volume devoted to a copy of Thesaurus pauperum, a compilation of remedies for a variety of diseases frequently attributed to Petrus Hispanus, later Pope John XXI. The remainder includes a work by Arnaldus de Villanova, a partial copy of a work by Johannes de Rupescissa, a work attributed to Ramon Llull, and several other unattributed collections of remedies. Lists of multiple names, perhaps of teachers or students, many associated with locations in northern Italy, added by a few hands (f. 165r-167r, 265r-266r).

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  Collation Model for LJS 23: [De natura rerum].

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  Gatherings from Books VII-XX of Thomas's general introduction to science, including parts of his sections on fish, insects and invertebrates, trees, cosmology and astronomy, herbs, springs, gems, wind and clouds, the four elements, stars, and eclipses. One of the earliest known copies of this text. Notes in a modern German hand on front flyleaves and occasionally in margins.

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  Collation Model for LJS 242: Basis grammatice.

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  Summary of Latin grammar arranged in 8 sections for 8 parts of speech, followed by conjugation tables for the 4 conjugations and a commentary on the summary, with the lemmata from the earlier part in red.

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  Collation Model for LJS 24: [Medical miscellany].

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  Collection of 10th- through early 13th-century texts that formed the standard 13th-century medical curriculum (referred to and printed in the Renaissance under the collective title Articella), here copied in the mid-13th century with inhabited initials showing medical scenes. 5 works of Isaac Israeli concerning diet, urine, fevers, and the elements, which were translated into Latin in the 11th century by Constantine the African, a Benedictine monk, comprise most of the manuscript. These are preceded by a brief introduction to Galen and 2 short works on the pulse, the later of which, by Gilles de Corbeil, is the latest work in the collection. Most of the illuminations depict Dominican monks teaching and tending to patients.

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  Collation Model for LJS 25: Liber metaphisice ; Liber ethicorum.

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  Aristotle's Metaphysics and Nicomachean ethics, in the Latin translations by the Dominican William of Moerbeke from the Greek, followed by the first page of the Oeconomica, a work commonly attributed to Aristotle, in the Latin translation known as the translatio Durandi, attributed to Durand of Auvergne. The Aristotle texts are preceded by a table of contents for the Nicomachean ethics. The outer bifolium of the first gathering (before f. 1 and after f. 10), containing the beginning of the Metaphysics, a gathering after f. 22, and two leaves after f. 72 are all lacking. Many early marginal notes, some affected by cropping, and occasional manicules.

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  Collation Model for LJS 264: Ymage du monde.

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  Summary of all knowledge, divided into 3 parts on the creation of the world and man, geography, and astronomy; copy of the earliest recension in 6,600 octosyllabic lines of verse, as composed in 1245 by Gautier of Metz.

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  Collation Model for LJS 267: De ludo schacchorum seu de moribus...

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  Compilation, mostly in Latin, of religious, literary, historical, and natural-historical works, including classical and contemporary selections, as well as letters by humanist writers Francesco Petrarca and Donatus Albanzani. Over a quarter of the manuscript is devoted to the De ludo scachorum of Jacobus de Cessolis, a collection of sermons about the proper relationships between a king and various classes of subjects, compared to the rules of chess (f. 1r-56r). Other moderately substantial texts include descriptions of various geographic regions from Honorius of Autun's De imagine mundi (f. 61r-71r); a brief history of the Roman civil wars (f. 71v-92r); and the Computus of Bono da Lucca, which deals with the calendar, lunar cycles, and calculations for determining the date of Easter (f. 109r-124v). The manuscript is a palimpsest, with the lower text from the 14th century, probably legal.

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  Collation Model for LJS 27: Algorismus.

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  Pedagogical treatise on commercial and practical arithmetic, with extensive use of arabic numerals and problems illustrated with scenes from daily life.