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The manuscript, consisting of 197 leaves in Bern as well as 24 leaves in Paris (BNF, lat. 7520), is the oldest grammar manuscript from Fleury; it contains an early medieval corpus of Roman grammarians from antiquity and from the early medieval…

Psalter, with prefaces of Jerome and continuous marginal glosses; Brandani monachi oratio de verbo dei ‘quam fecit per michahelem archangelum dei. quando transfretavit septem maria ...’. Psalterium Davidis cum praefationibus Hieronymi et glossa…

Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio; Rhetorica ad Herennium. Macrobii in Somnium Scipionis libri II [u.a.] - BSB Clm 14436

This magnificent manuscript was formerly known as the Canterbury Psalter. It is now named for the scribe, Eadwine, a monk of Christ Church Canterbury where the Psalter was made. It is an illustrated copy of the Psalms in three Latin versions with…

In CCCC MS 173 is found the Parker Chronicle, one of the most important manuscripts for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon history. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the earliest history written in English, seems to have originated under the impetus of Alfred…

Sammelhandschrift; verschiedene; Arno, Salzburg, Erzbischof, 740-821 et al; Collection, various, Arno, Archbishop of Salzburg et alhttp://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_3112149&order=1&view=SINGLE

A reproduction of the first page from Thomas Atwood's setting of "Her hands were clasped" from 'The Fire Worshippers' in Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh. Persistent catalogue record: https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb1992094

Charles E Horn's opera, Lalla Rookh or the Cashmerian Minstrel, premiered at Dublin's Royal Theatre on 10 June 1818. The image here is of the theatre as it stood in 1821; the building that Horn knew was replaced after a fire.
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Excerpts from the beginning and end of a cantata by John Francis Barnett (premiere Birmingham, 1870) derived from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh. Persistent catalogue link: https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb1865744

This image of Feramorz/Aliris holding Lalla Rookh is from the final episode in Thomas Moore's romance, where the princess discovers that her beloved Feramorz is none other than her betrothed, the Bucharian prince Aliris. It is taken from Lalla Rookk…