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1571. Stowe MS 945

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Stowe MS 945
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WILL of Alfred the Great, in Anglo-Saxon, copied from No. 944 above (f. 29 b), when in T. Astle's possession; with introduction and notes, and translations into English and Latin, by O[wen] M[anning],1776 (see f.18). Published at Oxford,1788. Followed (f. 19) by the will of Alfred the Alderman (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and English, Old
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1572. Stowe MS 946

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Stowe MS 946
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REGULA Canonicorum S. Chrodegangi Metensis Episcopi, in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Transcript of a MS. of the xith century at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (S. 12 in Wanley's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon MSS. at C. C. C., p. 130, contained in Hickes's Thesaurus, vol. ii.; and no. cxci. in Nasmith's ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1573. Stowe MS 947-980

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Stowe MS 947-980
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CLASS XXI. POETRY, AND PROSE DRAMA.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Icelandic, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh
Date Range:
15th century-18th century
Extent:
34 items

1574. Stowe MS 948

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Stowe MS 948
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HYMN to the Virgin, in French, preceded by a calendar in a different hand. Imperfect at the beginning, the first line being, "Durement fu trauaile" (f. 8 b), and wanting leaves after ff. 9, 10. The several divisions remaining begin, "Deu te salt uirgine honore" (f. 9 b), "Virge mere preciouse" (...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1575. Stowe MS 949

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Stowe MS 949
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LIVES OF SAINTS, in English verse. This MS. belongs to the group of which Harley MS. 2277 and Egerton MS. 1993 are representatives, described at length in C. Horstmann's Altenglische Legenden, Paderborn, 1875, pp. iii.-xxxviii., and in his introduction to The Early South-English Legendary or Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 14th century
Extent:
1 item

1576. Stowe MS 950

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Stowe MS 950
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CONFESSIO Amantis, by John Gower. Imperfect, both the beginning and the end being lost, including both passages by which the editions are distinguished. The text begins near the commencement of the 1st book, with the line "He hyde it nought, for yif thou feynest" (Pauli, i. p. 47), and ends in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:
1 item

1577. Stowe MS 951

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Stowe MS 951
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1. HISTORY of the three Kings or Magi, Jaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, with an account of the three translations of their bodies until they were finally deposited at Cologne by Rainald of Dassel, archbishop, in 1164: an abridged English translation of the Historia Trium Regum of John of Hildeshe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1578. Stowe MS 952

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Stowe MS 952
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THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the second being the Pèlerinage de l'ame, and the t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

1579. Stowe MS 953

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Stowe MS 953
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NARRATIVE POEM in old English verse relating the revelation to St. Methodius of the history of the world from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. Begins:- "Sum tyme was there a man of state That was clepyd Methodius, An holy byshop, a gret prelate, A man nobyll and gracyous." It summarises th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1580. Stowe MS 954

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Stowe MS 954
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SONETTI and Canzoni of Petrarch, entitled "Lamentationes domini Francisci Petrarce de amore domine Laure." Preceded by an index of first lines, and followed in the same hand (f. 150) by the Triomphi, headed "Triumfi vi. Petrarce." The reverse of the last leaf contains a copy of Petrarch's note o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item