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1. Stowe MS 50-51

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Stowe MS 50-51
Title:
LA LEGENDE DORÉE: the French version of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, made by Jean de Vignay, circ. 1340, including the additional Lives given by De Vignay for which there is no original in Jacobus. There are in all 236 narratives, including those which refer to Festivals as well as the Lives of the Saints. Begins, without title, with the rubric "Cy comence le prologue de lacteur de ce liure," etc., which introduces the translator's preface, beg. "Monseigneur saint iherome." The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
2 items

2. Stowe MS 54-57

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 54-57
Title:
SECT. I. — GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
4 items

3. Stowe MS 58-83

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 58-83
Title:
SECT. II. — ENGLISH.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
26 items

4. Stowe MS 84-103

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 84-103
Title:
SECT. III. - FOREIGN.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
20 items

5. Stowe MS 104-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 104-131
Title:
SECT. IV.-ECCLESIASTICAL.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
28 items

6. Stowe MS 132-267

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 132-267
Title:
SECT. V. - STATE PAPERS, DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
14th century-19th century
Extent:
136 items

7. Stowe MS 268-310

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 268-310
Title:
SECT. VI.-POLITICAL TRACTS, COLLECTIONS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
43 items

8. Stowe MS 334-337

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 334-337
Title:
" AN ESSAY upon the ancient and modern government, conventions and parliaments of England. With abstracts of the most observable laws and the frequency of later parliaments, in which is treated principally of the Saxon and Norman constitution of government and the legislative (sic) and laws during the time of the Saxon and first six Norman kings. After which succeed several necessary observations on succeeding parliaments, their frequency and prorogations to the reign of Elizabeth." Four vol...
Scope & Content:
England; Parliament: Essay on the government of England, to the reign of Hen. III.: 18th cent. England General Chronicles and History: Essay on the government and parliaments of England to the reign of Hen. III.: 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
4 items

9. Stowe MS 346-353

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 346-353
Title:
ROLLS of Parliament, I Rich. II. [ 1377 ]-39 Hen. VI. [1460]: transcripts, apparently made for Sir Roger Twysden, with notes, and extracts from other records, in his hand. Eight volumes. In the extracts by Sir R. Twysden are also included:- Vol. ii. (a) " Petitions and acts moeued at ye Parleament held at York, 8 Edw. Ill. [1334]; copied from "the abbreuyation of 8o Edw. 3 by Mr. Bowyer, the Roll itself being now wanting." At the end (f. 3) is a note oil the abridgements of William Bowyer...
Scope & Content:
Sir Roger Twysden, Antiquary (ob. 1672): Rolls of Parliament, transcribed for: 17th cent. England; Parliament: Rolls of Parliament, with notes, etc., 1377-1460: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
8 items

10. Stowe MS 404-405

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe MS 404-405
Title:
HAMPDEN'S CASE of Ship-money: full reports of the arguments and judgments, 1637-1638. Two volumes, the first containing the arguments of St. John and Holborne, Hampden's counsel, and of Solicitor-General Lyttelton and Attorney-General Bankes for the Crow-n, the second containing the judgments. Paper; ff. 256, 193. Middle of xviith cent. With book-plate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, 1701. Folio.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1637-1638
Extent:
2 items