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471. Add MS 46144

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Title:
LACOCK ABBEY MAGNA CARTA 46144. MAGNA CARTA 1225: the exemplification of the Great Charter of Liberties granted by Henry III at Westminster, 11 Feb. 1225, that was sent to the county of Wiltshire and subsequently deposited at Lacock Abbey (see further below). No contemporary enrolment of the charter's text survives, but the Red Book of the Exchequer, in the Public Record Office, contains an early transcript (E. 164/2, ff. 183-184). Two other surviving exemplifications are respectively among...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Magna Carta: 1225.: Lat. Lacock Abbey; Wiltshire: Magna Carta from: 1225. Henry III of England: Magna Carta: 1225: Great Seal.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1225
Extent:
1 item

472. Add MS 46366

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Title:
Harington Papers, volume I
Scope & Content:
Volume I of the Harington Papers. A series of copies of prose tracts and petitions, which belonged to John Harington of Stepney (d. 1582). Arranged largely in chronological order, the majority concern Elizabeth I's potential marriages. Two main hands may be distinguished (cf. ff. 1–78 and ff. 82...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

473. Add MS 46367

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Title:
Harington Papers, volume II
Scope & Content:
ff. i–143v: Harington Papers, ‘Prose No. II’, comprising copies of letters, etc., c. 1544–1581, with later additions mainly in the hand of John Harington, MP (d. 1564). One of the two main hands (ff. 7–17 and throughout) is the same as that in Add MS 46366, ff. 1–78. Contents: f. i: Notes on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1544-1653
Extent:
1 volume

474. Add MS 46368

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Title:
Harington papers, volume IIII
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–60v: Volume IIII of the Harington papers. Autograph manuscript of Sir John Harington’s ‘A new discourse of a stale subject called the Metamorphosis of Aiax, ‘An Anatomy of the Metamorphosed Aiax’, and ‘An Apologie’, c. 1595–1596. These three tracts were printed by Richard Field in 1596, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1595-1596
Extent:
1 volume

475. Add MS 46369

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Title:
Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs, 1594-1599
Scope & Content:
Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs between 1594 and 1599. Compiled and partly composed by Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612). With later additions. Volume IV of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). ff. 1r-2v, 64r-65v: Notes and pen-trials, on the vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1594-1599
Extent:
1 volume

476. Add MS 46372

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Title:
The Psalms of David, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Scope & Content:
Collection of Psalms, translated into English verse by Sir Philip Sidney, author and courtier (1554-1586), and his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, writer and literary patron (1561-1621). Volume VII of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). Previously owned by Sir John Har...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1586-1610
Extent:
1 volume

477. Add MS 46454

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Title:
Talbot papers, volume I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30r: Volume I of the Shrewsbury (Talbot) papers. Twenty-nine royal letters to or concerning Sir Gilbert Talbot as Deputy Lieutenant of Calais and beginning with the commission in 1495 for his installation as Knight of the Garter. Henry VIII reappointed him to Calais at the beginning of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1495-1685
Extent:
1 volume

478. Add MS 46455

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Title:
Talbot papers, volume II
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–154v: A volume of letters and papers from Jean de Blicquy de Houpplines, French Secretary at Calais, from the reign of Henry VII and the early years of the reign of Henry VIII. f. 1r: Copy of a letter in French from the Lieutenant General of Bailiwick, Amiens to [Richard Nanfan], the Dep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1513
Extent:
1 volume

479. Add MS 46456

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Title:
Talbot Papers, volume III
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–168v: Papers of Jean de Blicquy de Houpplines, French Secretary at Calais, from the reigns of Henry VII and VIII. f. 1r: Draft letter in French from Jean de Blicquy de Houpplines, French Secretary at Calais to Madame de Brouay, 1504; draft letter in French from de Houpplines to the Senes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1513
Extent:
1 volume

480. Add MS 46700

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Title:
ALICE''S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND: ''A Christmas Gift to a Dear Child in Memory of a Summer Day''. The autograph manuscript, written and illustrated by ''Lewis Carroll'' ( the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; b. 1832, d. 1898 ) of the story afterwards rewritten and published in 1865 as ''Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland''.
Scope & Content:
Public Domain. According to a note in Dodgson''s diary ( Add. MS. 54343, f. 15b ) the story first took its shape during a river trip up the Thames to Godstow on 4 July 1862 ( for doubts about the validity of this date see Derek Hudson, Lewis Carroll, 1954, pp. 129-130 ) in company with the Rev...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1864
Extent:
1 item

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