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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2074
Title:: Papers relating to charges against Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, and Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, for treason, 1585
Scope & Content:: Papers relating to charges against Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, and Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, for treason in 1585; consisting of examinations and bonds of witnesses, interrogatories, memoranda and comparisons of evidence, some of which are in the handwriting of Sir Christo...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1566-1585
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2124
Title:: Letters and papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Babington plot
Scope & Content:: A volume of letters and papers connected with Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Babington plot, found at Bardon House, Somerset, in 1834. ff. 2r–3v: Summary of the charges brought against Mary by Parliament [May 1572]. See also Cotton MS Caligula B VIII, f. 240. ff. 4r–5v: Instructions given to W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572-1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2164
Title:: Survey of the lands of Colchester Abbey
Scope & Content:: Fragment (the first membrane of a parchment roll) of ‘the abstracte or brefe declaracion of all and singuler lordshippis, manners, landes’ belonging to the recently attainted monastery of Colchester, drawn up (c. 1540) by the royal commissioners Richard Pollard and Thomas Moyle after its confisc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1539-1540
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2402
Title:: George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey, and Metrical Visions
Scope & Content:: The original autograph manuscript of Cavendish's life of Cardinal Wolsey (ff. 4r–93r), and his Metrical Visions (ff. 94r–149r), begun 4 November, probably in 1556, and completed 24 June 1558. The first leaf of the prologue to the Life is missing. f. 152r: A pedigree of the Cavendish family, ad...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1556-1558
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2642
Title:: Robert Commaundre's heraldic and historical commonplace book
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–418v: ‘The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions’; a commonplace book chiefly of heraldic and historical collections by Robert Commaundre (d. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney (see f. 254r). The book was compiled in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2711
Title:: Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Scope & Content:: An album consisting primarily of fair copies of the poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt. ff. 2r–3v: Sir John Harington, Miscellany. f. 4r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!’. f. 4r: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘What vaileth trouth? or, by it, to take payn?’. ff. 4v–5r: Sir Thomas Wya...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1530s
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2816
Title:: Roll of New Year's Gifts given by and to King Charles I, 1 Jan 1627
Scope & Content:: Roll of New Year’s Gifts given by and to King Charles I, 2 Chas I, i.e. 1 Jan 1627. Recto: This lists the gifts of plate given at New Year by the King. The recipients are grouped by rank and status: Estates and Earls, Countesses and Ladies, Viscounts, Bishops, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen and Mus...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1626-1627
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2956
Title:: " THE YORKSHIRE FEAST SONG," in score, by Henry Purcell. Autogr. Agrees pretty closely with the edition published by the Purcell Society. Paper; ff. iii + 22. Folio. Circ. A.D. 1689. Bookplate of W. H. C[ummings] (sale-cat., lot 1391).
Scope & Content:: Henry Purcell, composer and organist: The Yorkshire Feast Song: circ. 1689.: Autogr. William Hayman Cummings, Mus.D: Bookplates. Bookplates: Cummings (William Hayman), Mus.D. d.1915.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1689
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3038
Title:: THE TWO final chapters, numbered 10 and 11, of Persuasion by Jane Austen, as originally composed. Holograph. The novel, as published posthumously (2 vols., 1818), retains the final chapter, renumbered 12 but discards the other in favour of a new chapter 10 and a partly new chapter 11, the latter incorporating with slight alterations the section of the old chapter 10 from "that as to character" to "motive for remaining here" (ff. 6 b-8 b, 15-16, corresponding to vol. 2, pp. 283-292, of the fi...
Scope & Content:: Fiction: Two chapters of Persuasion by Jane Austen: 1816.: Autogr. Jane Austen, novelist: Two chapters of Persuasion: 1816.: Autogr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Jul 1816-18 Jul 1816
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3051
Title:: COLLECTION OF FROTTOLE, STRAMBOTTI AND ODES, with music for four voices, by Italian composers of the 15th and early 16th centt. The names of the composers are not given but a number can be identified from the books of Frottole printed by Ottaviano dei Petrucci at Venice, etc., 1504-1514, viz:-Francesco d'Ana (ff. 4 b, 6 b, 20b (?), 39 b, 46 b); Bartholomaeus Tromboncino (ff. 7b, 2ob (?), 22b, 26b, 42b, 57b); Marchetto Cara (ff. 24b-26); Philippo de Luprano al. Lurano (ff. 35 b, 41 b, 42 b (?...
Scope & Content:: Ottmann-Duplanil; Paris: Binding by: 19th cent. Music: Frottole, strambotti and odes, for four voices: circ. 1500.: Ital. Bindings FRENCH: Red morocco, by Ottmann-Duplanil: 19th cent. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Penrose (Boles) 11: 20th cent. ff. ii-iv Alfred Einstein, musicol...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: c 1500
Extent:: 1 item

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