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31. Add MS 37719

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COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Sir John Gibson (1606-1665), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, co. York, a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle, circ. 1653-1660. The compilation is dedicated, in a letter (f. 5 b) dated March, 1656, to his son John Gibson. Holograph. He has inserted in the volume about a dozen portraits and other engravings, chiefly taken from books. Joseph Hunter in Add. MS. 24463, f. 59 b sqq., gives particulars of the family from a note-book which belonged to the son. Sir John, who had ...
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Commonplace Books: Sir J. Gibson: 1653-1660. Sir John Gibson, of Welburn, county Yorkshire: Commonplace-book when in prison: 1653-1660. city of Durham: Commonplace book of Sir J. Gibson, prisoner in the Castle: 1653-1660. includes: f. i William Ward Jackson: Bookplate: 19th cent.ff. 1, 283...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1653-1660
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1 item

32. Add MS 38458

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Vol. CCLXIX (ff. 336). Letters relating to various other elections, including some relating to the candidature of the 1st Earl, as Charles Jenkinson, at Harwich, 1772 (f. 89), Hastings, 1774 (ff. 110-114) and Saltash, 1784 (ff. 150, 151); 18 Dec. 1761-circ. 1820. Folio. Charles Jenkinson, 1st E...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1761-c 1820
Extent:
1 item

33. Add MS 38666

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POEM ON CHURCH FESTIVALS, intended (see prologue, f. 5) as a Life of Christ; written in alternate rhyme, arranged mostly in quatrains. Beg. "Ihesu þat born was of a may In amendement of mankynde Deyde and rose the thridde day The deuelus bond to vnbynde." Ends "Haue we þat hope with outen were And we shulle peree hit as did he Of oure lyfe be clene & clere And with hym in þat blisse be." Colophon, "Nunc scripsi al this: Pro Christo da michi my seruys." The poem falls into the following s...
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Poetry: Life of Christ, a poem on Church Festivals: 15th cent. Our Saviour Jesus Christ: Life of Christ, a poem on Church Festivals: 15th cent. includes: f. 174 Poetry: Dialogue betw. clerk and husbandman, with refrain " Quia amore langueo,": 15th cent.: Engl. f. 178 Sir Richard Payne: Name s...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

34. Add MS 39912

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Vol. I. 1879, Ff. 115 includes: f. 2 b Horningsey, Cambridgeshire: Drawing of memorial floor-slabs at: 1849.ff. 13, 18 Eggleston Abbey; Yorkshire: Drawings of memorial slabs at: 1875.ff. 14, 80 Barnard Castle, Durham: Drawings of memorial slabs at: 19th cent.ff. 15, 20, 33, 37, 56, 58, 9...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1879
Extent:
1 item

35. Add MS 39913

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Vol. II. 1880, Ff. 163 includes: f. 2 b Heysham, Lancashire: Drawing of ancient coffins at: 1878.f. 10 Blanchland, Northumberland: Drawing of memorial slab at: 19th cent.ff. 11, 159 Whalley, Lancashire: Drawings of memorial, slabs at: 19th cent.f. 12 Uldale, Cumberland: Drawing of memo...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880
Extent:
1 item

36. Add MS 39914

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Vol. III. 1881, Ff. 160 includes: ff. 9, 10, 151 Flaxley Abbey; Gloucestershire: Drawings of memorial slabs at: 1880.ff. 11, 28, 29, 153 Blanchland Abbey; Northumberland: Drawings of memorial slabs at: 19th cent.f. 12 Kilburn, North Riding of Yorkshire: Drawings of memorial slabs at: 19t...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881
Extent:
1 item

37. Add MS 39915

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Vol. IV. 1882, Ff. 170 includes: f. 2 b City of York: Drawings of memorial slabs and sepulchral antiquities in churches and Museum in: 19th cent.f. 8 Middleham, Yorkshire: Drawing of memorial slab at: 1880.ff. 9, 11, 15-17, 55, 149, 153 Jervaulx Abbey; N.R., Yorkshire: Drawings of memorial sla...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882
Extent:
1 item

38. Add MS 39916

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Vol. V, Ff. 144 includes: ff. 1, 2 Brompton, North Riding of Yorkshire: Drawing of crosses at: 19th cent. ff. 3, 25 Thornhill, West Riding of Yorkshire: Drawings of memorial slabs at: 19th cent. f. 4 Thorp Arch, West Riding of Yorkshire: Drawing of cross at: 19th cent. f. 5 Thornhill, West Rid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

39. Add MS 39943

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(Yates Thompson 26). LIFE, and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, by Bede, etc., in Latin: the contents are :- (1) Letter of Bede to Bishop Eadfrith, beg. "Domino sancto ac beatissimo patri Eadfrido episcopo .... Quia iussistis dilectissimi," forming a prologue to his prose Life of St. Cuthbert (Migne, Patr. Lat. xciv. 733). f. 2 b;- (2) Letter of Bede to the priest John, beg. " Domino in domino dominorum dilectissimo .... Dici non potest dilectissime," i.e. the letter accompanying the metrical Lif...
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Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Bookplates. National Art-Collections Fund: Contributed towards purchase of: in 1920. Saint Cuthbert: Life and miracles of, etc., with miniatures: 12th cent.: Lat. Beda: Life of St. Cuthbert by: 12th cent.: Lat. Bookplates: Thompson (Henry Yates), d...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

40. Add MS 40408

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Vol. CCXXVlII (ff. 262). 27-31 Dec., and undated, Dec 1834. includes: f. 1 Charles Arbuthnot, PC; MP; diplomatist: Letter to T. Venables: 1834.f. 3 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury: Letter to W. Y. Peel: 1834.f. 5 George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield: Correspondence wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Dec 1834
Extent:
1 item