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Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 1-446
Title:: King's Manuscripts
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts collected by George III and transferred to the British Museum in 1824 by George IV. c 1100-c 1800. 446 manuscripts
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1100-c 1800
Extent:: 448 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 3-4
Title:: BIBLE, in English, authorized version; written for George III 'by Alexr. Weir, student of Divinity, Edinburgh, 1797'. In two volumes: vol. i, Genesis-Job; vol. ii, Psalms-Revelation, with title-page, dated 1798, prefixed to the New Testament (f. 165). At the end (vol. ii, f. 303) are added tables of (a) kindred and affinity, (b) divisions of time, (c) offices and conditions of men, (d) weights and measures, (e) money. Paper; ff. 282, 304. 10 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in. A.D. 1797, 1798. Double colum...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1797-1798
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 6
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOURS, &c., in Latin. Contents:-(1) Calendar, in French: SS. Lupus, Giles, Denis, and Martin in gold. f 1 ;-(2) The four Gospel-lessons. f. 13 (two pairs of leaves, ff. 15-18 and 16-17, misbound ; proper order, ff. 16, 15, 18, 17);- (3) ' Obsecro te 'and ' 0 intemerata'. ff. 17 b, 19, 22;-(4...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 7
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOURS, &c., in Latin. Contents :(i) Calendar, with many French saints, including Eutropius, Bishop [of Saintes] (Apr. 30), and Ausonius, Bishop [of Angoulême] (May 22), both in blue, besides several others connected with S.W. France; also with 'Dedicatio eclesie Engolism' [Angoulême] in blue...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 8
Title:
Scope & Content:: HOURS, &C., in Latin, apparently of French Benedictine use of the congregation of Tiron (see below, artt. 2, 3, 6, 7). Contents:-(i) Hours of the Virgin. f. 1;(2) 'Suffragia per totum annum dicenda post laudes et vesperas': commemorations of the Trinity, Cross, S. Benedict, All Saints, and '...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Late 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 10
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'PRECATIONES, seu meditationes . . . ex quibusdam piis scriptoribus per ... D. Catharinam Anglie, Francie, Hibernieque Reginam collecte; et per D. Elizabetam ex anglico conuerse' : the 'Prayers and Meditations' of Queen Katharine Parr (see Royal MS. 7 D. ix), translated into Latin, French, and I...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 11
Title:
Scope & Content:: PROPER LESSONS from the Old Testament for Sundays and Holydays throughout the year, followed (f. 79) by the New Testament; written in shorthand, according to the system of James Weston, 1727. Paper; ff. i+199. 7 in. x 41/4 in . XVIII cent. Book-plate of P[hilip A[ugusts] Hanrott. Belonged (see f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Kings MS 12
Title:
Scope & Content:: 'THE TRIAL OF FAITH; or Afflictions sanctified: with the Privileges of Believers and the Glory of the Church; taken from the sure testimony of the Holy Scriptures. By James Illingworth, D. D., Lecturer of St. Alphage, London Wall.' Holograph. The title-page is dated 20 Apr. 1789, but the author ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1789-1790
Extent:: 1 item

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