Search

Language English Digitised Content Platform BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable)

371. Add MS 82370

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 82370
Title:
An Elizabethan anthology ('The Household Book of John Hanson')
Scope & Content:
This provincial household book, compiled around 1590, was originally believed to be the production of one John Stanhope, a 16th-century family patriarch, whose name appears in red ink on the first folio of the manuscript. However, it was subsequently discovered that the dominant hand throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

372. Add MS 88965

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88965
Title:
Letter of King Henry VII concerning Perkin Warbeck's rebellion
Scope & Content:
Letter from King Henry VII to Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, concerning Perkin Warbeck's rebellion in the West Country and the defence of Exeter, 16 September, no year, Woodstock. Signed 'H[enricus] R[ex]' at the head of letter. In September 1497, Perkin Warbeck sailed from Cork to Cornwall,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1497
Extent:
1 folio

373. Add MS 88966

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88966
Title:
Letter of Queen Elizabeth I concerning the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–4v: Original letter from Queen Elizabeth I to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, her ambassador in Scotland, concerning the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Loch Leven by the Lords of the Council. Written 27 July 1567, Windsor, and signed 'Elizabeth R' at the head of the letter. Elizabeth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1567
Extent:
2 bifolia

374. Add MS 88991

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88991
Title:
Prayer book ('The Taverner Prayer Book')
Scope & Content:
Prayer book of Psalms and prayers in English, probably made for Anne Seymour [née Stanhope] (b. c. 1497, d. 1587), Countess of Hertford and later Duchess of Somerset. The manuscript contains a selection of prayers from Richard Taverner’s translation from the Latin of Wolfgang Capito’s Precatione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1540
Extent:

Parchment codex

375. Add MS 89168

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89168
Title:
Cartulary of Combermere Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–9v: Register of the lands and tenements of Combermere Abbey, containing copies of 42 leases and indentures from the 13th to 16th centuries: ‘Registerium Omnium et singularum terrarum et tenementum ad monasterium de Cambirmere pertinentum in Wico malbano Jacentum, et per Indenturas ad term...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1529
Extent:

1 volume

376. Add MS 89250/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89250/1
Title:
Former boards of the Mostyn Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:
These boards formerly served as part of the binding for the Mostyn Psalter-Hours (Add MS 89250). The upper board may be made from ash wood and appears to be a replacement, perhaps made in the seventeenth century. The lower board may be original (dating to the last quarter of the thirteenth centur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
Binding

377. Add MS 89427

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89427
Title:
CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur. Autograph manuscript ‘XIII/The Darker Side’, unpublished chapter from The Land of Mist.
Scope & Content:
Unpublished ‘lost’ chapter from Arthur Conan Doyle’s third Professor Challenger novel The Land of Mist, published in 1926. 9 page manuscript, written in Conan Doyle’s hand, and containing extensive corrections and additions made by the author throughout. A note on the first folio, in the author’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
1 file

378. Add MS 89477/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89477/1/1
Title:
A copy of Frances Cornford's Spring Morning annotated and decorated by Virginia Woolf
Scope & Content:
Printed volume of Frances Cornford’s, Spring Morning,with woodcuts by Gwendolen Raverat (published in 1915) and decorated withannotations and additional illustrations in coloured pencil, charcoal and chalkpastels by Virginia Woolf. Mentioned in Quentin Bell's biography of Woolf, thisvolume was a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 volume

379. Add MS 89675

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89675
Title:
Letters of John Newton and Elizabeth Catlett to Dr Thomas and Sophia Ring
Scope & Content:
44 letters by John Newton (1725-1807) to Dr Thomas Ring (1761-1840) and Sophia Ring, née Tompson (1768-1848), dated 1793-1802 (ff. 1-79). The letters begin after a visit to Reading and concern Newton’s close friendship with the Rings. Subjects include the spiritual concerns of evangelicals in Rea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1793-1948
Extent:
1 volume

380. Add MS 89675 ff. 1-105

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89675 ff. 1-105
Title:
Letters of John Newton and Elizabeth Catlett to Dr Thomas and Sophia Ring
Scope & Content:
44 letters by John Newton (1725-1807) to Dr Thomas Ring (1761-1840) and Sophia Ring, née Tompson (1768-1848), dated 1793-1802 (ff. 1-79). The letters begin after a visit to Reading and concern Newton’s close friendship with the Rings. Subjects include the spiritual concerns of evangelicals in Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1793-1813
Extent:
1 volume

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »

  • BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) 2,937