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11. Stowe MS 71

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Stowe MS 71
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CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, In English. This copy is of the same class as those contained in Harl. 1337 and 6251; it does not agree entirely with them, but all three differ considerably from other versions of the Brute. The title in the first rubric is "Here bigynneth the Boke of the Cronyculez of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Stowe MS 72

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Stowe MS 72
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GENEALOGICAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, of the kings of England to Edward IV., tracing their descent from Adam through the Trojan kings; with the genealogy of Christ in a parallel column. Beg. "Veterum cronicoriim de successione regum anglie ordo hic insequitur." An English copy, slightly imperfect, i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

13. Stowe MS 73

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Stowe MS 73
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A genealogical chronicle of the kings of England to Edward IV
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A genealogical chronicle, formerly in concertina format, now a codex. Contents: An abbreviated version in English of a genealogical chronicle from Adam to the beginning of the reign of Edward IV, of the type known as the 'Considerans' chronicle, named from the opening words of the Latin prol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1461-1499
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1 volume

14. Stowe MS 74

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Stowe MS 74
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GENEALOGICAL HISTORY of the Sovereigns of England, from Egbert, A.D. 801, to Elizabeth. Latin. With arms in trick. Paper; ff. 39. XVIIth cent. At f. 38 the writer has inscribed in the margin "decimo tertio die Novembris anno 1612. hic incipiebam." A note at f. 1 by Sir Isaac Heard, Clarenceux, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

15. Stowe MS 75

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Stowe MS 75
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1. EPITOME of English history, from 1066 to the accession of Elizabeth. f. 4. 2. Genealogy of the Saxon kings, from Egbert to Edgar the Ætheling; with arms in colours. f. 18. 3. Genealogy of the royal house of England, from William I. to Philip and Mary; with arms in colours. Continued, in a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1592
Extent:
1 item

16. Stowe MS 76

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Stowe MS 76
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"GESTA BRITANNICA, præsortim Anglorum, adjectis aliquot observationibus, maxime in iis quæ, ad ecclesiam a temporibus retroactis ad A.D. mdcxlviii [Jan. 1648/9] spectant."The work, which is apparently autograph, is divided into ten books, the last three (ff. 211b-362) containing the reigns of Ja...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18 Jun 1660-28 Apr 1664
Extent:
1 item

17. Stowe MS 77

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Stowe MS 77
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"BEHEMOTH, or the Epitome of ye Civill Wars of England," 1640-1660; by Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. At the end (f. 65), in a different band, is an exposition (incomplete) of the statute "22 and 23 Car. 2di cap. 10o , An Act for the better settling of Intestates estates." Paper; ff. 68. Late XVII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1640-1660
Extent:
1 item

18. Stowe MS 78

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Stowe MS 78
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"AN ALPHABETICAL MEMORANDUM-BOOK or Index, whereby several remarkable passages in Rapin's History of England (to the Revolution) may be easily turn'd to. Continued to the end of King William's Reign from another History, etc." With dedication by Charles Gibbon, 1 Mar. 1733 [4], to William, Duke ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1 Mar 1734]
Extent:
1 item

19. Stowe MS 79

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Stowe MS 79
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NOTES on Rapin's History of England by Philip Morant [1700- 1770], the historian of Essex, consisting of references to, and extracts from, the earlier chroniclers illustrating certain passages. In two volumes, bound in one, the first relating to British and Saxon times, the second to the reign o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

20. Stowe MS 80

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Stowe MS 80
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CATALOGUE, made by Humphrey Wanley (ob. 1726), of those chronicles and histories of England in the Cotton Collection which, at the time this catalogue was made, had not been printed; followed, on f. 25, by a similar list, made by the same, of chronicles already printed. Copy, apparently in the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item