Contents: ff. 1r-93r: A pocket diary known as the 'Chronicle of Queen Jane', covering the period July 1553-1554, here entitled ‘An Annale of Queene Marie her Raigne or a great part of it ab Anonym[ous]’. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. [vi]recto: A note on the manuscript by Sir...
Contents: ff. 2r-146r: A heraldic treatise, entitled ‘Proterologus, or the Nobilitie described; in which the Armes, Creations, and failing or determining of most of the Dukes, Marquesses, Carles and Viscountes with manie of the Barons of this Kingdome from the Norman Conquest untill the beginni...
Contents: ff. 1r-236v: A numismatical work, recording coins in Belgium from 1500-1600. The manuscript contains several additions: f. 1*recto: Sayings in Latin and Greek, beginning 'Nummus vincit, nummus regnat, nummus imperat universis', added in the 17th century by 'Robert Appletont'. f. ...
Collection of scientific, historical, and theological works, including Johann Lichtenberger, Prognosticatio; Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemata; John Lydgate, Testament; Meditations on the Supper; Honorius of Autun, Imago Mundi; Sextus Aurelius Victor, De viris illustribus; Jerome of Hereford's predictions for 1472; Commentary on the Ten Commandments; Treatise on the Computus
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany consisting of eight different parts that were produced at different times. Parts 1 (ff. 2-49), 2 (ff. 50-51), and 5 (ff. 122-146) were all printed in the late 15th century. Part 3 (ff. 52-103) and 6 (ff. 147-158) were written by different 15th-century ha...
Odo of Cheriton, Fabulae; a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum; Libre du gouvernement des roys et des princes, an anonymous French translation of the Secretum Secretorum; Christine de Pizan, Épistre de Othéa a Hector; glossary of terms in French, Latin, and Middle English
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a composite miscellany, made up of three parts (ff. 1-79; ff. 80-105 plus blanks; and ff. 106-153). It contains copies of the Fabulae (Fables) of the English preacher Odo of Cheriton (b. 1180/90, d. 1256/7), a selection of tales from the Gesta Romanorum (Deeds of the Romans), ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
ff. 1r–29r: A mid-16th-century heraldic manuscript. A note opposite f. 1r by Frederic Madden records that this manuscript is written in the same hand as Harley MS 567 (another heraldic manuscript). f. 1r: Names of the knights of the Garter, 1584. f. 1v: Gilbert Talbot, names of the knights of ...
Contents: ff. 1r-45r: A (?) copy of the Ordinary of Fees and Allowances paid by the King (? Edward VI) to his Officers and Ministers in England. Decoration: Calligraphically decorated initials throughout the manuscript.
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: A report concerning laws that are repealed or expired. ff. 51r-56r: A table of laws that are repealed or expired. ff. 57r-57v: An English treatise entitled ‘Le preamble del Edw. Cooke sur les former lectures sur le Statute de Finibus Anno 27 E. 1’. ff. 58r-60r: A Fren...
Contents: ff. 3*recto-6*recto: Indices of pedegrees, arms and seals in the manuscript. ff. 2r-168r: A miscellany of heraldic works by Robert Glover (b. 1543/1544, d. 1588), herald of Somerset [the original texts are in two manuscripts in the College of Arms]: see f. 2*recto: ‘Liber miscellana...