VALOR. of the possessions in co. Oxon. of the late John Blundell, esq., which on his death on 20 Sept. 1 Eliz. [1559], descended to Elizabeth, Mary, Theodora, Anne and Susan, his daughters and co-heiresses, livery being given on 23 Sept. to Edmund Hougan and to Jerard Crocker, the husbands respe...
COMPOTUS of the Bailiff of the Hundred of Knyghtlowe [Knightlow, co. Warw.] and of the leets of Stanley [Stoneleigh] and Bryncklowe [Brinklow] in the same hundred. XVIth cent. Vellum roll. Stoneleigh, Warwickshire: Compotus of the bailiff of the leet of: 16th cent. Brinklow, Warwickshire: Comp...
COUNTERPART of a lease by Richard Fines, knt. [Fienes, 7th] Baron Say and Sele, to George Greenwood, of the Inner Temple, London, gent., for £500, of pasture called Middle Norton in Weston Underedge, co. Glouc., for 40 years at a pepper-corn rent. Dat. 20 Oct. 2 Jas. 1. [1604]. This charter wa...
THE BIBLE, in Latin: Vulgate version. Preceded by the Epistle of Jerome to Paulinus (f. 1, "Frater Ambrosius "), and by his preface to the Pentateuch (f. 3). All the books after the Pentateuch have prefaces prefixed, except Judges, Ruth, Psalms, and Song of Songs, while Job, Joel, Jonah, Matthew...
Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
PETRI COMESTORIS Historia Scholastica. Begins with the epistle dedicatory to William [de Champagne], Archbishop of Sens [1168-1176, afterwards of Reims, and Cardinal], and is complete to the end of the Gospel history, with a continuation covering the Acts of the Apostles and ending with the mart...
BIBLIA PAUPERUM, consisting of rudely executed and Coloured drawings representing the typical events of Old Testament History and their corresponding fulfilments in the Life of our Lord, with appropriate texts from the Vulgate. There are in addition numerous drawings of heads of prophets, kings,...
ZACHARIAS CHRYSOPOLITANUS in unum ex quattuor sive de concordia Evangelistarum: the Concordance to the Gospels, with commentary, of Zacharias of Chrysopolis [variously supposed to be Goldborough in Yorkshire and Besançon in France]. He has recently been identified with Zacharias, " ductor schola...
CONCORDANCE, or Harmony of the Gospels, in Latin, the four narratives being combined into one by selection of passages from each. Begins with John i. 1, "In principio erat Verbum," and ends with the last words of the same Gospel, " qui scribendi sunt libros,"followed by the colophon,"Explicit sa...