Manuscript Fragments

Two leaves of parchment torn into 4 strips, from same theological treatise, late 13th - early 14th century. Removed from the binding of In librum Judicum ... commentarii doctissimi, cum tractatione perutili rerum & locorum, Petrus Martyr Vermilius, 1571. Formerly numbered 26.

Most likely Italian, possibly Bologna. 13th-14th century. No record of which book this was taken from.

Most likely from the beginning of a liturgical work. English in origin. Early - mid 14th century. No record of which book this was taken from. Formerly numbered 31.

Strip is from top corner of parchment bifolium. Early 13th century. No record of which book this was taken from. Formerly numbered 32.

Annotated including: 'he that stelle yt shalbe hanged by [] nether by water not yt by' and '[] smythe of Fetk[in]e'. No record of which volume this was taken from. Originally numbered 34.

Late 13th - early 14th century.

'Formerly cover of … 49 (French piece on French affairs).'

Formally numbered 33.

Entries on Saints Sebastian, Agnes, and Vincentius. Likely England in origin. c14th century.

No record of which book this was taken from.

Includes punctus elevatus.

Previously numbered 36.

2 large parchment bifolio (cropped). 'Venite exultemus domino iubilemus' (Psalm 94), a hymn repeated daily in Invitatory at Matins. From large choir book or liturgical service book. Late 13th - mid 14th century.

No record of which book this was removed from.

Previously numbered 37.

[1275-1325], possibly written in England.

No record of which book this was taken from.

Marsh's Library stamp.

No record of which binding this was taken from.

Previously numbered 39.

2 parchment leaves from same text. Possibly from Schola Medica Salernitana.

[1200-1230].

No record of which book this was taken from.

Formerly numbered 40.

Segment of paper, torn to fit as end leaf in smaller book. English cursive, with gothic chapter title. Most likely reader copied out an extract in end leaves of a printed work, mid 14th century.

No record of which book this was taken from.

Previously numbered 41.

One parchment folio that was halved to act as end leaves. English cursive, document hand. Segment from a work on metaphysics, possibly Duns Scotus. 13th century.

No record of which book this was removed from.

Previously numbered 42.

Fragment of parchment leaf, from liturgical work. Musical notation, [1200-1225].

[Good Friday liturgy.]

No record of which book this was taken from.

Previously numbered 43.

Parchment folio taken from original text and likely halved to create leaf for later work. Later work dates to [1180-1215], segment from a theological treatise. The original text is composed in Caroline minuscule script, dating from late 9th - 11th century.

No record of which book this was taken from.

St. Edmund K. and M.
St. Cecilia V. and M.

A parchment leaf folded in half and used as a cover. Veneration of St Edmund suggests England as likely origin of work, 14th century.

Used as the cover of Vita Henrici Chichele Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis [1414-1443], sub regibus Henric: V. et VI descripta ab Arthuro Duck, 1617.

Marsh's Library stamp and call number.

Formerly numbered 46.

From antiphon collection intended to be sung or recited at Vespers in the last days of Advent, 17 – 23 December. Parchment. Late 14th- early 15th century. Removed from the binding of H3.6.49, a collection of 23 sixteenth-century pamphlets. Marsh's Library stamp and call number on verso of leaf.

Luke 16.9 'Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness'.

Single parchment leaf folded in half, used as book cover, late 12th century.

Removed from Du droit des magistrats sur leurs subiets, Theodore de Béze, 1575.

Letter contains advice to a man of business travelling to Italy. It also includes a list of goods shipped from Venice to John Lane. Includes the names Richard Best, John Moore and Richard Stevens.

Removed from the binding of a volume with two items: In Iulianum invectivae duae, 1610 and Versus iambici : in principalium festorum pictas in tabulis historias atque alia varia compositi, 1610.

Previously numbered 49.

St John Apostle.

Likely English in origin, early 14th century.

Removed from the binding of De abditis rerum causis libri duo denuo ab ipso authore recogniti ... Ioannes Fernelius, 1551.

More material remains in this book, and the entire binding is made from a manuscript.

Formerly numbered 52.

Fragment of parchment bifolium, most likely from a liturgical service book, [1180-­1215].

Removed from the binding of [Opera] [Q. Horatius Flaccus] [cum antiquis scholiis et commentariis A. Mancinelli], [1514].

Previously numbered 50.

From large noted liturgical work or choir book, [1340-1370].

No record of what binding this was taken from.

Contains musical notation. Rotunda script suggests origin of Italy or S. France, [1290-1340].

Removed from Les Mémoires de Mess. Martin du Bellay, 1571.

Call number is written on fragment.

[C. 15th century.]

Rubricated.

No record of which book this was removed from.

Housed in same envelope as http://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/admin/items/show/id/252.

Annotated with manicule.

Flayhole.

Fragment of parchment from glossed treatise, mid 14th century. Possibly from a Decretal.

No record of which book this was taken from.

Annotated.

Parchment leaf used as the cover of a volume of three pamphlets: '[The Righteousness evangelical describ'd]' [1663]; 'Rules and advices to the clergy of the diocese of Down and Connor', 1663; and 'A Sermon preached in Christs-Church Dublin, July 16. 1663. At the funeral of the most Reverend Father in God, John, Late Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, with a narrative of his life', 1663.

Text identified as Hugh of St Cher, Opera omnia in universum Vetus et Novum testamentum, [1270­-1320].

Front pastedown 'Conciliationes locorum scripturae', 1536.

Back pastedown of 'Conciliationes locorum scripturae', 1536.