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1. Add MS 33733-33791

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Title:
Grenville Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
form part of the Grenville Library, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1847 by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. They were transferred to the custody of the Keeper of MSS. in 1890.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 14th century-19th century
Extent:
60 items

2. Add MS 33739

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Title:
'The Coppy of a letter written by a M[ast]r of artes in Cambridge to his frende in Londonn concerninge som talke past of late betwene wor[shipfu]ll and graue men aboute the present state and som proceedings of the Earle of Leicester and his frends in Englande' ('Leicester's Commonwealth')
Scope & Content:
This text is a manuscript copy of a work of Catholic political polemic, probably published in Rouen in 1584, possibly by George Flinton or by Georges L'Oyselet. It was published as The copie of a leter, wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his friend in London, concerning some talke past o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1620
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 33759

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(Gr. xviii.) " ALBERICUS VESPUCIUS Laurentio Petri Francisci de Medicis " : copy of the letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo de' Mediei on his third voyage to America, in 1501. Latin. Paper; ff. 13 (those containing the text numbered at the foot from 85-95, as if they had formed part of a large...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 33772

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(Gr. i.) LECTIONS, memorials of saints, etc., in Latin. The first leaf (with miniature ?) has been cut out. On a fly-leaf (f. 2 b) are ten lines of Latin elegiacs written by " Jo. de Giglis " [Giovanni de' Gigli, Bishop of Worcester 1497, ob. 1498] on presenting the volume to Margaret, Countess ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 33773

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(Gr. xliv.) PRAYER of St. Brendan, in Latin, with the rubric, " Beatus Brandanus monacus fecit istam orationem, et reuelata est ei a sancto Michaele archangelo, quando transfretauit septem maria, et data est illi ista oratio post septem annos pasce querenti insulam repromissionis et celebrauit p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 33774-33776

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Add MS 33774-33776
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(Gr. iii.-v.) " NOTÆ in [Thomæ] Godwini Mosen et Aaronem " [London, 1614, etc.], by Samuel Jones, schoolmaster at Tewkesbury. Three volumes. For another copy, see Add. 31, 211- 12 ; and for an account of the author, W. Wilson's Dissenting Churches, 1808, vol. i. p. 381. Paper; ff. 175, 142, 156. Early xviiith cent. With book-plate of George White (18th cent.), and name of J. Bartlett, 1832. Small Octavo.
Scope & Content:
George White: Book-plate: 18th cent. Samuel Jones, of Tewkesbury: Notes on T. Godwin's " Moses and Aaron": 18th cent.: Lat. Reverend Thomas Godwin: Notes on his " Moses and Aaron," by S. Jones: 18th cent.: Lat. Book-plates: White (George): 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 18th century
Extent:
3 items

7. Add MS 33780

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(Gr. xxxvii.) ÆSOPIC FABLES : the collection known as that of the " Anonymus Neveleti," here consisting of fifty-eight Fables and two Tales, with a Prologue. In Latin elegiacs; each article having a gloss at the foot. The authorship is here attributed (f. 2) to " Salon," who is called a native o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 33781

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(Gr. xiii.) ÆSOPIC FABLES, known as " Ysopet-Avionnet eighty-three fables in two parts, the first containing fifty-nine fables of the " Anonymus Neveleti " with five from other sources, the second containing eighteen fables of Avianus with one other by an unknown mediæval writer. In Latin elegia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 33782

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(Gr. vi.) " AESOPI fabule thirty-three fables translated from the Greek by Erniolao Barbaro of Venice, with a prefatory letter headed " Hermolai barbari Veneti patricij ad Doctissimum Ambrosium monachum Procemium in aliquas Aesopi. fabulas." Colophon: " Expliciunt quedam Æsopi fabulæ traducte pe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1422
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 33784

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Scope & Content:
(Gr. Xxii.) 1. GESTA ROMAN0ROM: moralised tales, in 109 chapters (111 in the table prefixed). Latin. For a fuller description, see the Cat. of Romances, vol. iii. f. 4. 2. " Isti sunt generales articuli maioris excommunicationis in lingua materna," etc. : the form of greater excommunication " ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item