Manuscript Waste Not, or a Case in Fragmentology

Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS 9/2:31 is one of the fragments in the “Paleographical Teaching Set” that was gradually put together in the second half of the twentieth century for facilitating teaching and learning of Greek and Latin paleography at the University of Kansas.

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Her Book, Written by Her Own Hand

Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS C66 contains a copy of a translation from Latin into Italian of the De theologia mystica, also known by its opening words, the Viae Syon lugent, along with two much shorter tracts added later.

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Signs in the Margins and Between the Lines

Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS C49 contains copies of two works which were originally composed a millennium apart: the translation of Sextus Pythagoreus’s Sententiae from Greek into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia and the Enchiridion by Laurentius Pisanus.

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What Is in a Medieval Chronicle?

The description of Kenneth Spencer Research Library MS B90 was titled “Contemporary Manuscript of the World Chronicle of Martin of Troppau” in William Salloch’s Catalogue 258 dated to 1968.

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