This manuscript from the Carthusian monastery St Michaelsberg in Mainz contains a short text with dietary guidelines and a popular herbal, describing the medicinal purposes of plants, that was composed by Odo von Meung (fl. c. 1070), a physician and poet, but sometimes was spuriously attributed ...
King Edward VI's excerpts from Cicero and Aristotle, which he wrote during the course of his studies from 1548 to 1549. f. 1r: Note explaining that the linings of the covers and the flyleaves, taken from a printed book, were transferred to the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum o...
ff. 1r–224r: A collection of Scottish devotional poetry and prose by various authors. ff. 1r–4v: William Dunbar (d. circa 1530), 'The tabill of confessioun', in twenty-one eight-line stanzas. ff. 5v–46v: Walter Kennedy, 'The passioun of Crist', a poem in stanzas of eight lines. A woodcut, repr...
Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2018.002; PG 20.45; CPG 3495), ff 2r-344r. Imperfect, having several lacunae and expl. πᾶσαν ὑπερβολὴν ὠμότητος (900B). Preceded by a πίναξ, f 1v Also included in the volume (f i recto) is a letter from Edward Burton, Regius Professor of Divinit...
Book of payments by the Treasurer of the Household of King Henry VIII
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ff. 1r–195v: A book of payments by the Treasurer of the King's Household, from Candelmas Day, 29 Henry VIII (1537), to Midsummer Day, 33 Henry VIII (1542).
Formulary of psalms and prayers made by Lord Henry Howard
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This is a formulary in Latin of psalms and prayers compiled by Lord Henry Howard, from 1604 Earl of Northampton. It is written carefully and neatly in his own hand. The title-page, written in English and in another (early 17th-century hand) on the first folio of the parchment volume, calls it ...
ff. 1r–313v: A volume of documents relating to John Fisher (c. 1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, and Thomas More (1478–1535). It includes the original copy of More’s letter to his daughter Margaret of 2 or 3 May 1535. A note records that this manuscript was damaged in a fire at the binders, 10 Ju...