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1. Add MS 5141

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Add MS 5141
Title:
Portrait and Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
Scope & Content:
This manuscript comprises a single leaf, which seems to have once belonged to a larger volume. The recto features a full-length portrait of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, holding a penner and a rosary, alongside his arms (Party per pale argent and Gules a bend counter-changed), an English da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 10037

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Title:
Jane Segar, The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills, written and illuminated by Jane Segar, sister of the Elizabethan herald and officer of arms Sir William Segar (b. c. 1554, d. 1633) and the courtier and painter Francis Segar (b. 1563, d. 1615). Jane presented the volume to Eliza...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

3. Add MS 24202

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Title:
A Middle English theological anthology with orthodox and reformist writings
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains theological texts in Middle English that were copied in the decades just before or after the year 1400. On the one hand, the collection contains orthodox treatises, such as selections from the late 14th-century Lay Folk’s Catechism by John of Gaytryge ['Gaysteke' or 'Cat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1380-c 1425
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 27329

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Add MS 27329
Title:
Henry Daniel, De Re Herbaria and De Arboribus; Anonymous, De Pestilentia Libellus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript primarily contains the work of Henry Daniel (b. c. 1315-1320, d. after 1385), a scholar, gardener and healer. During his life, Daniel studied medicine, cultivated a large garden at Stepney in London (in which he claims to have had 242 different plants), and, at a later age, joine...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1450
Extent:

A parchment codex

5. Add MS 28504

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Title:
John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng; rule-book for the Esquire Youths, a society of bell-ringers
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an attempted facsimile of an early printed edition of The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng, by the English poet John Skelton (b. c. 1463, d. 1529). The satirical poem concerns the eponymous Elynour, the owner of a pub in southern England. It is written in a style known as 'Ske...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

6. Add MS 43827 A

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Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Add MS 43827 B

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Add MS 43827 B
Title:
Autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok, copied by Elizabeth Hickman
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autobiographical account of the life of Rose Lok (b. 1526, d. 1613), an English businesswoman and Protestant exile during the Tudor period, written by her in c. 1610 when she was 84. Rose was the daughter of Sir William Lok (b. 1480, d. 1550), a gentleman usher to Hen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1667
Extent:
1 volume

8. Add MS 44839

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Title:
Chart of the Thames estuary drawn by Robert Adams, showing existing and proposed defences on the Thames, against the Spanish Armada
Scope & Content:
A pictorial chart of the Thames estuary, drawn in pen-and-ink with coloured wash, in 1588 by Robert Adams (b. 1540, d. 1595), architect and surveyor of buildings for Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603), and endorsed across the end, in a contemporary hand, 'Thamesis Descriptio'. The chart shows the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 roll

9. Add MS 48027/1

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Add MS 48027/1
Title:
Drawings and documents on the sentence against and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two leaves that were originally part of Add MS 48027, where they followed f. 569 and f. 650, but without modern foliation. The leaves are now mounted separately in this volume and are referred to by the folio numbers they would have been given in the modern foliation of Add ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1587
Extent:
1 volume

10. Add MS 74286

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Add MS 74286
Title:
Collection of original letters from Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
This manuscript principally contains a collection of 43 original letters written from Robert Devereux (b. 1565, d. 1601), 2nd Earl of Essex, to Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558-1603). Although some of the letters are undated, all but the first were written between the time of Essex's expedition to Fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1590-1601
Extent:
1 volume