Search

Project / Collection Arundel Manuscripts Language English Digitised Content Yes (unavailable)

1. Arundel MS 97

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 97
Title:
Book of payments by the Treasurer of the Household of King Henry VIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–195v: A book of payments by the Treasurer of the King's Household, from Candelmas Day, 29 Henry VIII (1537), to Midsummer Day, 33 Henry VIII (1542).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1537-1542
Extent:
1 volume

2. Arundel MS 152

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 152
Title:
Documents relating to John Fisher and Thomas More
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–313v: A volume of documents relating to John Fisher (c. 1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas More (1478–1535). It includes the original copy of More’s letter to his daughter Margaret of 2 or 3 May 1535. A note records that this manuscript was damaged in a fire at the binders, 10 Ju...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

3. Arundel MS 225

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 225
Title:
Herbal
Scope & Content:
This manuscript from the Carthusian monastery St Michaelsberg in Mainz contains a short text with dietary guidelines and a popular herbal, describing the medicinal purposes of plants, that was composed by Odo von Meung (fl. c. 1070), a physician and poet, but sometimes was spuriously attributed ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

4. Arundel MS 285

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 285
Title:
Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–224r: A collection of Scottish devotional poetry and prose by various authors. ff. 1r–4v: William Dunbar (d. circa 1530), 'The tabill of confessioun', in twenty-one eight-line stanzas. ff. 5v–46v: Walter Kennedy, 'The passioun of Crist', a poem in stanzas of eight lines. A woodcut, repr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Arundel MS 300

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 300
Title:
Formulary of psalms and prayers made by Lord Henry Howard
Scope & Content:
This is a formulary in Latin of psalms and prayers compiled by Lord Henry Howard, from 1604 Earl of Northampton. It is written carefully and neatly in his own hand. The title-page, written in English and in another (early 17th-century hand) on the first folio of the parchment volume, calls it ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1540-1614
Extent:
1 volume

6. Arundel MS 510

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 510
Title:
King Edward VI's excerpts from philosophers
Scope & Content:
King Edward VI's excerpts from Cicero and Aristotle, which he wrote during the course of his studies from 1548 to 1549. f. 1r: Note explaining that the linings of the covers and the flyleaves, taken from a printed book, were transferred to the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1548-1549
Extent:
1 volume

7. Arundel MS 539

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 539
Title:
Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica
Scope & Content:
Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2018.002; PG 20.45; CPG 3495), ff 2r-344r. Imperfect, having several lacunae and expl. πᾶσαν ὑπερβολὴν ὠμότητος (900B). Preceded by a πίναξ, f 1v Also included in the volume (f i recto) is a letter from Edward Burton, Regius Professor of Divinit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:

345 folios