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1. Stowe MS 30

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Stowe MS 30
Title:
Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1578
Extent:
1 volume

2. Stowe MS 95

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Stowe MS 95
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"A MEMORIALL of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the Vth vppon the resignement of his gouermente and stats [in 1556] to his sonne [Philip II.] the now kinge of Spaine": a translation from the Spanish by Lord Henry Howard [cr. Earl of Northampton, 1604], with preface addressed...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Stowe MS 132

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Stowe MS 132
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Scope & Content:
Vol. I. (ff. 300). ANGLO-GALLICA, or negotiations and treaties between England and France; 1359, 1525-1654. 1. " Traicté entre le Roy de France et le Royaume d'Escosse pour la delivrance du Roy d'Escosse, prisonnier en Angleterre " ; Paris, July, 1359. f 4. 2. Treaty of peace and alliance be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1359-1654
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 133

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Stowe MS 133
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Vol. II. (ff. 320). ANGLO-BELGlCA, or state-papers relating to affairs between England and the Netherlands, many of which refer to the trade of the two countries to the East Indies; 1585-1659. 1. Treaties of England with the United Provinces, viz.: 1585. ff. 12, 19, 34-42;-1608. ff. 53-63;-162...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and French
Date Range:
1585-1659
Extent:
1 item

5. Stowe MS 142

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Stowe MS 142
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS historical letters, etc.; 1375-1810. In two series, English or relating to England and (artt. 87-106) foreign. 1. Andrea Contarini, Doge of Venice, to Edward III. of England, desiring a safe conduct for merchant-ships about to be sent to Flanders; " in nostro ducali Palatio," 5 F...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1375-1810
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 143

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Stowe MS 143
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers, tracts, copies of letters, etc., 15th-18th centt., written in many different hands, as follows:- 1. List of State Papers and Letters relating to England and her dealings with the Netherlands, France, etc., tempp. Hen. VII.- Hon. VIII., contained in Cotton MS...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Stowe MS 145

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Stowe MS 145
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTION Of political tracts, state letters and papers relating to Home and Foreign affairs, chiefly in the reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and James I., many of them having been transeribed from original documents; 1509-1628. Other copies of artt. 2, 3, 10, 12, 13, 15, and 18 are found in Cotton MS. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1509-1628
Extent:
1 item

8. Stowe MS 147

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Stowe MS 147
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TRANSCRIPTS of English State papers and letters; 1522-1571. They consist chiefly (1) of the correspondence of Cardinal Wolsey with Secretary Pace and the English Ambassadors at the Papal and Imperial Courts during the years 1522-1525, relating to the Cardinal's designs on the Popedom on the deat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1522-1571
Extent:
1 item

9. Stowe MS 150

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Stowe MS 150
Title:
Miscellaneous letters, 1525-1623
Scope & Content:
This is a miscellaneous collection of 16th- and early 17th-century correspondence. It incudes one holograph letter of Sir Philip Sidney from Flushing [Vlissingen] in 1586 (ff. 50r-v), and a copy of a letter from the Irish chieftain Florence MacCarthy Reagh [Finian Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach] to Sir ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1525-1623
Extent:
1 volume

10. Stowe MS 151

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Stowe MS 151
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Scope & Content:
TRANSCRIPTS of historical letters, political tracts, and other papers, viz 1. Qu. Anne Boleyn to Henry Vlll.; " From my dolefull Pryson in the Tower," 6 May, [1536]. " Founde amonge Cromwell's Papers." Printed in Cabala, London, 1691, p. 1. f. 1. 2. Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, "his letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item