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1. Add MS 47672-47683

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HOLKHAM HALL MANUSCRIPTS.MSS. 47672-47683 formed part of the Library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Later acquisitions from the same source are Add. MSS. 49363-49371. On the MSS. in general see L. Dorez, Les Manuscrits à Peintures de la Bibliothèque de Lord Leicester à Holkham Hall, Norfolk, 1908; S. de Ricci, A Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, 1932; F. Wormald in Times Literary Supplement, 2 May 1952, p. 304; Brit. Mus. Qu...
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Holkham Hall, Norfolk: MSS. in the library of the Earls of Leicester at: until 1952.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[800-1599]
Extent:
12 items

2. Add MS 47682

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Bible (the 'Holkham Bible Picture Book')
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A biblical picture book with explanatory text of varying length, sometimes in rhyming couplets, in Anglo-Norman French, with some English. The material covers Genesis from Creation to Noah (ff. 1-9), the Life of Christ from the Annunciation (preceded by genealogies of Mary and Jesus) to the Asce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and English
Date Range:
c 1327-1335
Extent:

A parchment codex, 42 folios

3. Add MS 47676

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. V (formerly MS. 210). EXPOSITIO LEGUM ROMANARUM, a compilation of Roman and Visigothic law; South Italy, 1st quarter of the 11th cent. The compilation, which possibly originated in Italy in the 9th cent., uses Roman sources both pre- and post-Justinian, and Visigothic law-books...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 47677

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. VI (formerly MS. 246). CHARTULARY OF THE AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY OF KENILWORTH, Co. Warw. (founded circ. 1125); 16th cent. (after 27 July 1514). Latin and occasionally French and English. Contains copies, mostly abbreviated, of royal, papal, episcopal and private charters, 12th cent....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 47681

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. X (formerly MS. 480). POGGIO BRACCIOLINI, FACETIAE, written by Felice Feliciano in 1461. Latin. The text of this collection of humorous anecdotes (composed between 1438 and 1453) was copied, it is stated, 'ex libello quodam Pogij florentini' (f. 2), apparently an incomplete ver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1461
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 47675

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. IV (formerly MS. 70). SELLYNG'S CHRYSOSTOM and two tracts defending the church's possessions against the state, copied from Add. MS. 15673, and in the same hand as ff. 2-76b of the latter MS.; after 1503 (arms of William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury 1503-1532, f. 2). Latin....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1503
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 47679

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HOLKHAM MSS. Vol. VIII (formerly MS. 411). AGRIMENSORES ROMANI, etc.: extracts from Roman treatises on land surveying and geometry, together with similar medieval works; 12th cent. Writers include Frontinus, Agennius Urbicus, Epaphroditus, Vitruvius Rufus, Varro, Balbus, Siculus Flaccus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
1 item