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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Language English. Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 6217

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 6217
Title:
Volume consisting a Copy of Latin edition of [William] Camden’s Annals of Queen Elizabeth I, comprising the History of her Reign from 1583 to 1587. Also a prefixed letter from Sir Robert Cecyll.
Scope & Content:
Thin Volume in folio of 59 and 189 folios; Containing an exact and literal copy of that part of the Latin edition of [William] Camden’s Annals of Queen Elizabeth which comprises the History of her Reign from the year 1583, to the year 1587, inclusive from the original autograph ‘À prima manu’ in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English. and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
1 volume (59 and 189 folios)

2. Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
Scope & Content:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587.The remainder of this volume has been bound as Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1581-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Caligula C IX/2
Title:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587
Scope & Content:
Records and papers (originals and copies) concerning England and Scotland, 1581–1587. The remainder of this volume has been bound as Cotton MS Caligula C IX/1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1581-1st half 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Domitian A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII
Title:
Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate; Chronicle from Noah to Louis the Pious; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text; Robert de Torigni, Chronicle, AD 1153–1179 (imperfect); Quadripartitus (imperfect); Henry of Huntingdon, De contemptu mundi (Historia Anglorum, book viii), Coronation charter of King Henry I of England (imperfect); List of Welsh cantrefi, Aelred of Rievaulx, Genealogia regum Angl...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains: f. 1*: an early modern list of contents; between f. 1* and f. 2r there are two blank folios; ff. 2r-15v: Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu, letter of Pope Paschal II, Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of Le Mans, De sancta Trinitate, followed by two blank ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, English, Old, English., and Welsh
Date Range:
4th quarter 11th century-1st half 17th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

5. Egerton MS 88

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 88
Title:
Irish legal and grammatical miscellany compiled by Domhnall O Duibhdábhoirenn
Scope & Content:
Contents: A miscellany of legal and grammatical tracts, tales and a law glossary, compiled by Domhnall O Duibhdábhoirenn (Donall O'Davoren), who kept a law school in the district of Burren, County Clare. It was copied between 1564 and 1570 mainly by Domhnall and two scribes who both signed the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English. and Irish
Date Range:
1564-1570
Extent:

1 volume

6. Harley MS 3950

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3950
Title:
Psalter with Anglo-Norman and Latin verses
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 1r-v: a prayer to the Wounds of Christ in Latin (beginning 'Sacratissimo capiti tuo et beatissime corone tue'). f. 2r: the Creed in Anglo-Norman French verse (beginning 'Jo crei en Deu verrayement'; ed. Brayer and Bouly de Lesdain, 'Les prières usuelles' (1969), pp. 114-15). f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English., and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 5408

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5408
Title:
An abridgement of law reports
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-235r: An abridgement of law reports; featuring a note in English on f. 158r: ‘After 4 leaves a day this book is r[...] on in 10 dayes’ ff. 236v-238v: Memoranda in English concerning legal matters, dated to the 14th year of Henry VIII (1522-1523).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English., French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume