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11. Add MS 38645

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Add MS 38645
Title:
Benedictional and Pontifical
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains two collections of blessings: a Benedictional, containing texts for blessing sacerdotal objects, clothes, and monastic buildings; and a Pontifical, containing texts for rites exclusively performed by bishops. The manuscript was owned and perhaps also produce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old and Latin
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

12. Add MS 74253

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Add MS 74253
Title:
ROBERT GLOVER (d.1588), SOMERSET HERALD: miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections; circa 1556-1581. Mostly autograph. Partly Latin and Norman French. This composite manuscript consists mostly of British and foreign genealogies, many accompanied by drawings of arms in trick. It includes a pedigree (f. 3v), circa 1556-1565, of the descendants of James II of Scotland down to the two sons of Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, who is described as 'modo existens in Anglia', annotat...
Scope & Content:
Heraldry: Genealogies: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Robert Glover, Somerset herald: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Miscellaneous genealogical and heraldic collections of Robert Glover: circa 1566-1581: Partly Latin and Norman French: Mostly autograph. includes: f. 3v James II of Scotl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1556-1581
Extent:
1 item

13. Add MS 74756 A-D

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 74756 A-D
Title:
PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF BECKWITH OF CO. YORK., 1786, WITH RELATED PAPERS, 1773-2000. Partly copies and printed. Partly Latin and Norman French. Presented, with Add. Chs. 77046-77049, by Canon John Douglas Beckwith on behalf of Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, K.C.B., D.S.O., and the Trustees of the Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester, 9 May 2000. Four parts. As follows:-
Scope & Content:
Beckwith family; of Yorkshire: Pedigree and arms, with related papers: 1773-2000: Partly Latin and Norman French: Partly copies and printed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1773-2000
Extent:

4 items

14. Arundel MS 1-550

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 1-550
Title:
Arundel Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel (d 1646). 550 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, French, Old, German, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Irish, Italian, Latin, Low Saxon, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
c 1100-c 1640
Extent:
552 items

15. Cotton MS

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS
Title:
Cotton Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Cotton Manuscripts contains a variety of material, much of it relating to the history, literature and culture of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 17th century. It is particularly rich in: (a) manuscripts written in Old English; (b) monastic cartularies; (c) saints’ Liv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Cipher, Coast Miwok, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Dutch, Middle, English, English, Middle, English, Old, Flemish, French, French, Old, German, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Inuit, Irish, Irish, Middle, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Low German, Occitan, Old, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Saxon, Old, Scots, Scots, Spanish, Temne, and Welsh
Date Range:
5th century-19th century
Extent:
1,429 manuscripts

16. Egerton MS 613

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 613
Title:
Prose and Verse Miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is a composite miscellany of verse and prose texts of a religious and didactic character. ff. 71r-74v: booklet with 15th-century medical recipes against gout, pestilence, swellings and other pains. 130 x 90 mm ( text space: 95 x 75 mm) The core parts of the manuscript were compl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, Middle, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex (composite)

17. Egerton MS 745

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 745
Title:
Devotional miscellany, including the Lives of St Denis and Edward the Confessor
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-24r: La vie de Saint Eustace; ff. 25r-27v: : Les Dix Commandemens; f. 27v-28r: Laidenge et convoitise; ff. 28v:-30v: Le sermon de Saint Beneoit (Saint Benedict); f. 30v: Les 15 Joies Nostre Dame; f. 31v: Meditations; f. 33r: Les sept vertus; f. 33r Une prière d'un cheva...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 232 folios

18. Egerton MS 881

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 881
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Content: ff. 1r-172r: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Loris continued by Jean de Meun. Incomplete due to missing folios. Numerous folios are missing: one between ff. 7-8; 8-9; 10-11; two between ff. 12-13; one between ff. 19-20; 22-23; 25-26; three between ff. 42-43; one between ff. 69-70; 83...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 172 folios

19. Egerton MS 945

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 945
Title:
Collection of devotional texts with musical notation
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-11r: Added prayers, chants and collects in Latin, including a series of four prayers to the Virgin, each beginning, '[P]recor te S[anc]ta M[ari]a perpetua virgo' (f. 9r). ff. 12r-15v: Dits des Trois morts et des trois vifs (The Three Living and Three Dead) in Old French, begi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old, Latin, and Occitan
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

20. Egerton MS 2022

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2022
Title:
Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-194v: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris, continued by Jean de Meun, beginning: 'Maintes gens dient que songes, na se fables non et mensonges'; ending: 'La flor du biau rosier flori/ Ainsi oi la rose vermeille/ Atant fu iors et ie mesveille'. Colophon: 'Car bien est temps ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Old
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex, 194 folios.