This manuscript contains one of the two extant copies of The Booke of Gostlye Grace.The work is a Middle English translation of an abridged version of the Liber Specialis Gratiae, a large collection of the revelations of Mechtild of Hackeborn (b. 1240/1, d. 1298). Mechtild was a nun of the Bened...
ORIGINAL letters and autographs, viz.:- 1. Louis [Duke of Orleans, afterwards Louis XII. of France] to [Charles VIII.] of France; Novaire [Novara], 17 July, [before 1498]. Fr. Signed. f. 1. 2. Henry VIII. of England to Maximilian, Duke of Milan; reporting his successes against the French, in...
LETTERS and papers, principally addressed to Dukes of Milan; 1409-1656; viz.:- 1. Articles of agreement for forming, a commercial partnership between Salvestro Boccha, of Pisa, Bartolomeo Chorbinelli and Giuliano Biliotti, of Florence, and others; 15 Oct. 1409. Ital. f. i. 2. "Anna de Chippr...