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1. Add MS 17801

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Title:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Locke.
Scope & Content:
Collection of compositions for various instruments, predominantly by Matthew Lock. ff. 3-6 'Duos' for Bass-Viols, in score, by M[atthew] L[ock], 1652. Autograph. There are twelve divided into four sets, each set containing two 'Fantazies' and either a Courante (nos. 1 and 3), or a Saraband (nos...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
c 1651-1654
Extent:
1 volume (65 folios)

2. Add MS 22911

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Scope & Content:
VOL. II. 1. Letters to Dr. Covel from Humfrey Wanley; London, Wimpole, 30 Aug. 1701-10 Apr. 1716, ff. 1, 8, 141-146, 155, 159-165, 170, 174-178, 185, 188, 190, 196, 206, 208, 211. Johannes Schult, Suecus; Cambridge, London, Upsal, 22 Apr. 1702-1 Jan. 1703. Lat. ff. 12-19, 25, 30, 36. J[ohn] Wood...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17 Nov 1655-29 Nov 1748
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 40165 A

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Title:
Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments
Scope & Content:
These fragments of Cyprian epistles LV, LXXIV and LXIX (ff. 1-5) and of an Old English Martyrology (ff. 6-7) were used as flyleaves in the binding of a 12th-century manuscript. They have been removed and bound together.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
300-899
Extent:

Parchment fragments consisting of 2 items

4. Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r

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Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r
Title:
Old English Martyrology fragment
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Anglo-Saxon Martyrology: the part for 2nd to 10th May, incipit "On þone aefteran [daeg þaes] monðes" (p. 70, 1. 10), explicit: "þaes martyres tid sancti Gor[dianes]" (p. 80,11. 13-14). (References to An Old English Martyrology, pp. 70-80). There are two other manuscripts of pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
875-899
Extent:
A parchment fragment consisting of 2 folios

5. Add MS 61735

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Title:
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1007-1025
Extent:
A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

6. Add MS 82931

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Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

7. Add MS 89169

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Title:
Cartulary of Burton Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references. ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer. ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

8. Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153

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Cotton MS Caligula A XV, ff 120–153
Title:
A collection of computistical texts and tables (imperfect), charms, prognostics, Easter-table annals for Christ Church, Canterbury, and extracts from Ælfric's De temporibus anni
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a variety of computistical and prognostic material and charms, as well as an image depicting God and an angel giving a scroll to St Pachomius. It also contains annals next to its Easter table, which link the manuscript's production to Christ Church, Canterbury. Originall...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-13th century
Extent:

Part of a parchment codex

9. Cotton MS Claudius A I

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Cotton MS Claudius A I
Title:
Passio sancti Cypriani (imperfect); Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (imperfect); Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi; papal, episcopal and royal letters; various hagiographies, including Paulinus, Vita sancti Ambrosii episcopi; Inventio sanctorum Gervasii et Prothasii; Inventio sancti Nazarii; Pseudo-Sebastian of Monte Cassino, Vita sancti Hieronymi; Venantius Fortunatus, Vita sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episcopi and Miracula sancti Hilarii Pictavensis episc...
Scope & Content:
This codex contains items from 4 originally separate medieval manuscripts, copied between the mid-10th and 14th century. f. 1r-v: Passio Sancti Cypriani (compare Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina, no. 2037, imperfect) and Rabanus Maurus, Homilia lxx (1r–v: imperfect), copied in the 14th century. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
mid-10th century-14th century
Extent:

1 parchment codex

10. Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 5r–36v

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Cotton MS Claudius A I, ff 5r–36v
Title:
Alcuin, Carmen xviii; Frithegod of Canterbury, Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi
Scope & Content:
These folios include: f. 5r: Alcuin's Carmen xviii, copied in the second half of the 10th century; 5v–36v: Frithegod's Breviloquium Vitae beati Wilfridi (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, numbers 8891–92), copied in the mid-10th century, soon after the text was composed for Oda, archbishop of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 10th century-2nd half of the 10th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius A I

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