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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89067
Title:: A Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of Priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed, published under the name of Thomas Martin (London, Robert Caly, 1554). ESTC S112322; STC 17517. With extensive manuscript annotations.
Scope & Content:: In 1549, John Ponet published a treatise in favour of clerical marriage, entitled A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Add. 89067 is Ponet’s personal copy of Stephen Gardiner’s refutation of his treatise, published in 1554 under the name of Thomas Martin. Ponet ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 1554-1556
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89077
Title:: Stevenson Papers: The letters of Ignatius Sancho
Scope & Content:: The surviving collection of the letters of Ignatius Sancho, author written to William Stevenson, miniaturist and publisher and to his father Reverend Seth Ellis Stevenson, headmaster of Retford Grammar School. The collection contains a copy of the fifth edition, of Letters of the Late Ignatius...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1776-1820
Extent:: 2 published volumes, 23 manuscript items and 1 facsimile letter.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89149
Title:: English translation of Desiderius Erasmus's Enchiridion militis Christiani
Scope & Content:: Contents: The only known manuscript of a contemporary English translation of the Enchiridion militis Christiani, or 'Handbook of the Christian soldier'. The Enchiridion, a compendium of Christian piety, was composed by Desiderius Erasmus (b. 1467, d. 1536) in 1501. The original Latin text appe...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1523
Extent:: A paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 89636
Title:: 'What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us' by Benjamin Zephaniah
Scope & Content:: Manuscript poem in Zephaniah's hand, signed, about the racist murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in Eltham in 1993. Originally written in 1999, this manuscript version is dated 15 May 2016.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2016
Extent:: 2 ff.

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS 5163
Title:: Don Juan: a poem by Lord Byron.
Scope & Content:: Autograph draft, signed, of Cantos VI and VII. In the original brown paper wrappers, inscribed by Byron. Ashley Library Catalogue, i, p. 159. For MSS. of the Dedication see A326, B4732. Large folio; ff. ii+37. Poetry ENGLISH: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron; poet: Poem, ''Don Juan'',...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1822
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Ashley MS B3341
Title:: Letter from Thomas Hardy to [Edmund Gosse]
Scope & Content:: Letter from Thomas Hardy to [Edmund Gosse], concerning Hardy's 'patchwork of some scenes from The Dynasts' for amateur performance in Dorchester in aid of the Red Cross, and economies he had made for the War; 15 March 1916. Printed in The Collected Letters, v, 1985, p. 149. [Ashley Library Catal...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Mar 1916
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 69, ff 359r-366r
Title:
Scope & Content:: Papers relating to the identification of the texts in the present volume and its sale. Partly printed and in Burney's hand.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: c 1810
Extent:: 7 foliios

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 95, ff 171r-172v
Title:
Scope & Content:: Printed advance notice of the sale of the Codex Crippsianus.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1st half of the 14th century
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Burney MS 105, ff 1r-4r
Title:
Scope & Content:: 18th-19th century notes on the text, provenance and scribe of the present volume, in Italian, English and Latin, ff 1r, 3r. Extract from St Jerome's Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum on the copying of texts, f 4r.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Appendix XLV/13
Title:: Notes of manuscripts lent by Sir Thomas Cotton
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a set of notes concerning manuscripts lent from the Cotton library by Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), broadly arranged in chronological order, and dating from 1638 to 1641, 1646 or 1647, and 1650 to 1661. The entries are frequently written in the hand of the borrow...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1637-1661
Extent:: 1 volume

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