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1. Egerton MS 616

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 616
Title:
Letters relating to England and Spain
Scope & Content:
Original letters illustrative of the history of England and Spain, with a modern transcription of some of the letters on ff. 80r–94r. ff. i–ii: Modern contents list. ff. 1r–v: Letter in Latin and on parchment from Richard II to the King of Aragon [Peter IV], 26 August [c. 1386], Westminster. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1386-1662
Extent:
1 volume

2. Egerton MS 617

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 617
Title:
Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Proverbs to Maccabees in the earlier version of the English translation produced by followers of John Wycliffe (d. 1384). This and Egerton MS 618, containing Matthew to Revelation, probably once formed a single continuous volume. A further vol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1397
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Egerton MS 618

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 618
Title:
Wycliffite Bible
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the books of the Bible from Matthew to Revelation in the earlier version of the English translation produced by followers of John Wycliffe (d. 1384). This and Egerton MS 617, containing Proverbs to Maccabees, probably once formed a single continuous volume. A further vol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390-1397
Extent:

A parchment codex

4. Egerton MS 709

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 709
Title:
Opus chemicum, partim Syriace et partim Arabice, sed literis Syriacis. Octavo. Bibl. Eg. 709.
Scope & Content:
Alchemy: Opus chemicum: Partly Arabic, partly Syrian.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Syriac, Classical
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Egerton MS 1069

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1069
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: Le Roman de la Rose: ff. 1-31r: The first section by Guillaume de Lorris, begun around 1220, incipit, 'Maintes gens dient quen songes'; ff. 31r-148r: The continuation by Jean de Meun, composed between 1269 and 1278, incipit, 'Et si lai je perdue espoir'. The attribution to the two...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 148 folios

6. Egerton MS 1651

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1651
Title:
Poems by Erasmus
Scope & Content:
Collection of epigrams by Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467–1536), humanist scholar and reformer. Containing a dedicatory epistle addressed to Prince Henry, later Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland. With an epigram by Robert Gaguin (1433-1501), French-Flemish humanist, poet, prosodis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1499
Extent:
1 volume

7. Egerton MS 1693

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1693
Title:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers of Robert Beale, 1569-1593, comprising: continental correspondence; papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots; and correspondence about the Church of England in the 1580s. This is a miscellaneous collection of papers once belonging to Robert Beale which have become separated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:
1569-1593
Extent:
1 volume

8. Egerton MS 1694

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1694
Title:
Original letters addressed to Robert Beale (1576-1579, 1587) and to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1585-1587), with other papers concerning English involvement with the Dutch Revolt
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the English involvement with the Dutch Revolt. The volume was once part of the Yelverton manuscripts, from which it became separated, and it embodies the involvement and preoccupation with the Dutch Revolt of the collection's originator, Robert Beale (1541-1601). Beale w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1576-1587
Extent:

1 volume

9. Egerton MS 1818

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1818
Title:
Letters and papers chiefly relating to Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters and papers relating to Scottish affairs. ff. 1r–v: Cardinal David Beaton (Archbishop of St Andrews) to 'my lord secretare', Paris, 26 November [1541?]. ff. 2r–v: Mary of Guise, (Queen Dowager of Scotland and James V's widow), taking Patrick, Lord Gray, into the service...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1541-1630
Extent:
1 volume

10. Egerton MS 1821

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1821
Title:
Devotional compendium, including the Psalter of the Virgin Mary and the Rosary of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:
ff. 3r-5r: a description of the five lilies of the Virgin; ff. 10r-12v: instructions for saying the Psalter of the Virgin Mary; ff. 12v-19r: ‘my daily exercise’, consisting of Psalm 50 (Miserere mei Deus), said in three divisions for various intentions, with a Pater, Ave, and Creed, followed b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1525-1538
Extent:

A parchment codex