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21. Add MS 8159

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Title:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich, 1 Jan 1588
Scope & Content:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich, 1 Jan 30 Elizabeth I (1588). The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal. The gifts include a lavish (and lavishl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1588
Extent:
1 parchment roll

22. Add MS 9772

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Title:
Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 1567
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Roll of New Year's Gifts given and received by Queen Elizabeth I, 1 Jan 9 Elizabeth I (1567). The recto contains a list of donors, grouped in order of precedence, with a description of the gifts made by each and a note as to their disposal, the total of money received being given at the foot as...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1567
Extent:
1 parchment roll

23. Add MS 10109

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Title:
Account book of payments made by James Nedam, 1542–1543
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–213v: Account book of the payments made by James Nedam, Surveyor General of the Works to King Henry VIII, in the years 1542–1543. It includes payments for the following: ff. 2r–9v: the new office for the King’s Surveyors in the Fish Yard; ff. 10r–49r: the new office for the King’s Surve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1542-1543
Extent:
1 volume

24. Add MS 10112

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Title:
Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639
Scope & Content:
Inventory of paintings and statues belonging to King Charles I, 1639. Compiled by Abraham van der Doort, artist and curator (1575x85-1640). Contains details of 40 paintings and 12 statues, originally held in the King’s Chair Room, in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall. With an index of items deliver...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1639
Extent:
1 volume.

25. Add MS 10302

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Title:
Thomas Norton, Ordinal of Alchemy
Scope & Content:
Contents: Thomas Norton (c. 1433-1513/14) of Bristol, Ordinal of Alchemy, ''Of Alkimy the Ordinal, the Crede Mihi, the Standard Perpetuall'', chapters 1-5 (lines 1-2682, with lines 2503-2622 lacking). This is the earliest surviving manuscript of the text, composed in 1477, perhaps a copy of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A paper codex

26. Add MS 10308

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Title:
Poems of Sir Robert Ayton
Scope & Content:
Collection of poems in English and Scots by Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638), poet and courtier. Collected by his nephew and executor, Sir John Ayton. f. 1r: Title page, ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, late Secretarye to the most Illustrious, Anna and Henrietta Mary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Scots
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

27. Add MS 10309

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Title:
Commonplace book of Margaret Bellasys
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book containing characters, poems and dramatic extracts. Formerly belonging to one Margaret Bellasys. Containing copies and extracts of works by Philip Sidney, John Donne, Edward Radcliffe, Thomas Carew, Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, Sir John Harington, Richard Brome, Thomas Middlet...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1630
Extent:
1 volume

28. Add MS 10422

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Title:
Robert Southwell, S.J., Collection of poetry and prose
Scope & Content:
Collection of works by Robert Southwell, writer, Jesuit, and martyr (1561-1595). f. 1r: To the Reader (‘Deare eye that dost peruse my muses style’). f. 2r: The conception of [Our Lady] (‘Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroud’). f. 2v: [Our] Ladies Natuitie (‘Joy in the rising of our orie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

29. Add MS 10449

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Title:
Stage plots of five Elizabethan plays
Scope & Content:
Stage plots were working documents for the practicalities of theatrical performances, sketching out entrances, and characters and actors in scenes, and with material on properties, stage business and music and noises. They were documents made up as part of the preparation of productions. The pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1589-1603
Extent:
1 volume

30. Add MS 11252

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Title:
Letters of King Charles I to Prince Charles and to the Speaker of the House of Lords, 1646-1648; letters on Scottish politics, 1681-1688; epitaph on Mary Digby (d. 1692); 17th-century cipher keys
Scope & Content:
A miscellaneous collection, including letters between King Charles I and Parliament preliminary to the negotiations at Newport in 1648. A note on the back of f. 15v noted the collection as 'Letters of King Charles I & others'. A not particulary legible note suggests that some of the papers w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher and English
Date Range:
1646-1681
Extent:
1 volume

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