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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32125, ff 1r-58v
Title:: Wace, Roman de Brut; Description of England
Scope & Content:: This part contains 2 texts: ff. 1r-58r, Wace, Roman de Brut in Anglo-Norman verse. Incipit (f. 1r): 'Ky vot oyr e wot saver / De rey en rey e de eir en eir / ke cil furent e dunt vindrent / ke engleterre primes tindrent'. Numerous leaves are missing between ff. 48 and 49, with the loss of line...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1275-1300
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 58 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32125, ff 59-245
Title:: Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
Scope & Content:: This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers 1909), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seignurie de si haute estori...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1325
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 177 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32125, ff 59r-245v
Title:: Estoire del Saint Graal (ff. 59r-205v); Robert de Boron, Merlin (ff. 206r-245v).
Scope & Content:: This part contains 2 texts: ff. 59r-205v, Estoire del Saint Graal (part of the 'Vulgate' cycle, see Sommers, Arthurian Romances, (1909)), in Old French prose. Rubric in red ('Ici comence...') has been mostly cut away in binding. Incipit of the prologue (f. 59r): 'Cil qui la hautesce e la seign...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French, Old
Date Range:: 1300-1325
Extent:: Part of a parchment codex, 145 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 38118
Title:: Apocalypse (the 'Huth Apocalypse') in prose with gloss, with a prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Prologue by Gilbert de la Porrée: 'Saint Pol lapostre dit que tous iceux qui vuelent debonairement vivre en Ihesu Christ'. Ending: 'et dist ainsi '. ff. 2r-43v: Apocalypse : 'Ie Iehan vostre frère et parconniers en tribulations'. Ending: 'La grace nostre seigneur soit ave...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 44 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 54180
Title:: Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le Roi
Scope & Content:: La Somme le Roi, a moral compendium compiled in 1279 by the Dominican Friar Laurent for King Philip III of France (r. 1270-1285), incipit: 'Le premier comandement'; preceded by a rubric: 'Ce sont les X commandemenz nostre seigneur jesus'; explicit (including the date of the compilation): 'Cest l...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, Old
Date Range:: c 1295
Extent:: 208 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 72412
Title:: Remonstrance of the House of Commons to King James I against Impositions, 1610, and the Treatise of James Whitelocke against Impositions, 1610
Scope & Content:: Trumbull Papers. In 1610 the House of Commons was very concerned with the issue of impositions - that is, new customs duties imposed by the Crown without parliamentary sanction - as an arbitrary exaction against the property rights of the subject and the authority of Parliament. This manuscript...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 1610-1642
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74756 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: THOMAS BECKWITH (1731-1786), F.S.A., HERALD PAINTER, OF YORK: ‘A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Families of Malebysse and Beckwith’; 1786, with later additions by other hands. Partly copies and printed. Partly Latin and Norman French. Paper: ff. ii+188. 480 mm x 340 mm. Binding ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1786
Extent:: 1 item

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

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