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21. Stowe MS 950

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Stowe MS 950
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CONFESSIO Amantis, by John Gower. Imperfect, both the beginning and the end being lost, including both passages by which the editions are distinguished. The text begins near the commencement of the 1st book, with the line "He hyde it nought, for yif thou feynest" (Pauli, i. p. 47), and ends in t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st half of 15th century
Extent:
1 item

22. Stowe MS 951

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Stowe MS 951
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1. HISTORY of the three Kings or Magi, Jaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, with an account of the three translations of their bodies until they were finally deposited at Cologne by Rainald of Dassel, archbishop, in 1164: an abridged English translation of the Historia Trium Regum of John of Hildeshe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

23. Stowe MS 964

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Stowe MS 964
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BACON'S ESSAYS; With the Characters of Julius Cæsar and Augustus at the end, and preceded by the dedication to the Duke of Buckingham and "Elogies" on the author by Ben Jonson and by A. Cowley, in his poem to the Royal Society. A printed edition, with the title-page torn out. On one of the fly l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1725
Extent:
1 item

24. Stowe MS 952

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Stowe MS 952
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THE PILGRIMAGE Of the Life of Man: a translation into English octosyllabic verse of the second recension [1355] of Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de la vie humaine. The French poem forms the first book of the author's Trois Pèlerinages, the second being the Pèlerinage de l'ame, and the t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

25. Stowe MS 961

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Stowe MS 961
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Poems by John Donne
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Volume containing 102 poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572–1631), with others by Francis Beaumont, Ben Jonson, John Hoskyns, Henry Constable and William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke. ff. 1r-3r John Donne, ‘Satyre II’. Copy titled ‘Satyre’, beginning ‘Sir though (I ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1623-1633
Extent:
1 volume

26. Stowe MS 969

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Stowe MS 969
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COLLECTION Of miscellancous political and other poems, as follows:- 1. "Advice to a Painter, upon the Defeat of the Rebells in the West and the execution of the late Duke of Monmouth," beg. "Since by just flames the guilty Peice is lost." See Poems on Affairs of State, 1716, ii. p. 148. f. 1. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

27. Stowe MS 956

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Stowe MS 956
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John Croke, Psalms in English verse
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A girdle-book containing a collection of thirteen Psalms, translated into English verse and apparently written by the legal official John Croke (b. 1489, d. 1554) in his own hand. Another copy of the text, without the hymn ‘Veni Creator’ but including Psalm 31, is now Add MS 30981, which is al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1540
Extent:
1 volume

28. Stowe MS 971

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Stowe MS 971
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COLLECTION of amatory and other verses, with extracts from plays of Shakespeare, Dryden, and others, in a lady's hand. Included are:- 1. "Gently touch the Warbling Lyre. Burlesqued by Sr W[illiam] Y[onge, Bart?]," beg. "Gently stir and blow the fire." f 1. 2. "The Cambro-Briton rob'd of his ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

29. Stowe MS 953

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Stowe MS 953
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NARRATIVE POEM in old English verse relating the revelation to St. Methodius of the history of the world from the Creation to the Day of Judgment. Begins:- "Sum tyme was there a man of state That was clepyd Methodius, An holy byshop, a gret prelate, A man nobyll and gracyous." It summarises th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

30. Stowe MS 972

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Stowe MS 972
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COLLECTIONS Of poems and verses by various authors, including:- 1. "The 139th Psalm Paraphrased. By Mr. Standen," beg. "O dread Jehovah ! thy all peircing eye." f. 1. 2. "The Progress of Life," beg. "How gayly is at first begun." f. 2. 3. "Love's Defence," beg. "When, dully-wise, the Grave...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item