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331. Add MS 15606

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Title:
Anthology of religious and didactic texts
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Contents: Religious and didactic poems and prose texts in Burgundian French: First section: ff . 2r-5r: Calendar; ff. 6r-17v: De David li prophecie, an allegorical battle between the vices and virtues ff. 18r-35r: Eructavit, a rhyming paraphrase of Psalm 45, composed in 1180 for 'Madame d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

332. Add MS 15644

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COLLECTIONs relating to the family of Steward, of Swaffham, co. Norf., and Ely, in two parts:- i. Copies of deeds, with notes of the seals, relating to the family, principally of the xvth century; with the following note written at the beginning, " In this book is entred the true transcript of sundry ould charters remayninge in my possession, decimo ano. Regine Elizabeth, 1567, A. S. [Augustine Steward]." They are as follows:- Receipt by Bartholomew Bartrand to the Prior of Wenlock, for ...
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Steward family; of Swaffham: Collections relating to. Wenlock Priory; Shropshire: Receipt by B. Bartrand to the Prior: 1441. includes: f. 2 Bartholomew Bartrand: Receipt to the Prior of Wenlock for œ50: 1441,: Lat. f. 2 Sir William de Bourchier: Agreement to undertake the custody of the castl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item

333. Add MS 15655

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"CE SONT les Remonstrances que font Monseigneur [Pierre II., Duc de Bourbon] et Madame [Anne, daughter of Louis Xl. of France, his wife], à cause delle, par devant Messrs. l'Evesque d'Alby [Louts d'Amboise], maistres Thibault Baillet, Jehan de Gaunay, présidens en la court de Parlement [and others], commissaires ordonnéz liar le Roy [Louis Xll.] pour oyr les dictes remonstrances," etc., representing the claims of the Duke and Duchess of Bourbon, by right of inheritance, to the property of Ch...
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Pierre II. de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon: Papers relating to the claims of the Duke and Duchess, by right of inheritance to the property of Charles VIII. her brother.: Fr. Thibault Baillet, Commissioner in the cause of the Duke and Duchess of Bourbon: Papers relating to the cause with his arms.: Fr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1499
Extent:
1 item

334. Add MS 15667

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CARTULARY of the Abbey of St. Aldhelm of Malmesbury, co. Wilts. The contents are as follows:- Charters to and from the monastery, chiefly in the time of John [Wallensis], Abbot [1222-1246]; they are numbered clxiii.-clxxxvi., and have formed part, apparently, of another register [of which a portion is in the library of Sir Tho. Phillipps, Bart.] , f.1;- Table of the charters included between fol. 10-12b., and fol. 110-120b. of the volume, ff. 8. 13b.;-Various charters, temp. Hen. III., f...
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Abbey of Malmesbury: Chartulary of. Johannes Wallensis, Abbot of Malmesbury: Register of charters, chiefly during his abbacy: 1222-1246. includes: f. 12 Brokenborough, Wiltshire: Lands in, granted to the monastery of Malmesbury, etc.: 956. f. 15. b Robert de Byngham, Bishop of Salisbury: Conf...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 13th century-14th century
Extent:
1 item

335. Add MS 15729

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A VOLUME of Original Letters and Papers principally addressed to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, when acting as Governor of St. Helena, and relating to Napoléon Bonaparte and his suite. The following are the names of the writers:- Sir William Sidney Smith (three letters), Palermo, Sept. Oct. 1806, f. 1 -J. M-, Palermo, 29 July, 1807, f. 6;-Sir W. Drummond, Palermo, 28 Mar. 1808, f. 8;-Sir Hudson Lowe to Col. --, Stralsund, 9 Sept. 1813, f. 10;-[Robert Stewart] Earl of Castlereagh, Secretary of...
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Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, GCMG; Governor of St Helena: Letters to him. includes: f. 1 Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, GCB: Letters to Sir H. Lowe: 1806. f. 6 J. M-: Letter to Sir H. Lowe: 1807. f. 8 Sir W- Drummond: Letter to Sir H. Lowe: 1808. f. 10 Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1806-1834
Extent:
1 item

336. Add MS 15732

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Title:
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae
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This manuscript contains a Latin copy of the Historia Regum Brittaniae ('The History of the Kings of Britain') by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154/55), bishop of St Asaph and historian. The work presents a pseudo-historical account of the kings of Britain; it opens with a legend that tells of how B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

337. Add MS 15736

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Title:
Friendship album of George Andrew, Freiherr von Herberstein
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Friendship album or ‘Stammbuch’ of George Andrew, Freiherr von Herberstein. Containing autographs and coloured arms, collected principally at Strasbourg and Steir, in the years 1612-1623. With an alphabetical index of writers (ff. 96v-104r). f. 1r Parhcment fragment with ownership inscription, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1612-1623
Extent:
1 volume

338. Add MS 15856

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COPIES of various diplomatic instruments in the reigns of Charles I. and Charles II., in the writing, for the most part, of John Nicholas, son of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, and apparently intended for the use of the latter, as a Book of Precedents. The contents are :- " Inscriptions des lettres aux Princes de l'Empire," f 1 ;-" Inscriptiones literarum usitatæ in Anglia," with the subscriptions used by Charles I., f 2; -"De modo scribendi epistolas apud Italos," f 5;-Credential...
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Forms: Of Commissions. John Nicholas, son of Sir Edward: Wrote the greater part of Add. Ms. Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Hatton of Kirby: Passes to him: 1647, 1648. Sir William Curtius: Letters to Sir R. Browne: 1643-1647, 1670. History of England: Diplomatic Instruments: temp. Car. 1. Car. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

339. Add MS 15857-15858

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Title:
ORIGINAL LETTERS, Official and Private, forming part of the correspondence of Sir Richard Browne, Knt. and Bart. (Ambassador to France, and one of the Clerks of the Privy Council), and his son-in-law, John Evelyn, Esq., of Wotton, from the year 1624 to 1712; with some other letters and papers interspersed
Scope & Content:
Short biographical notices and portraits have been prefixed to some of the letters by Wm. Upcott, the former possessor ; with an alphabetical index of the writers. In two Volumes. Folio. [15,857, 15,858.]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1624-1712
Extent:
2 items

340. Add MS 15866-15875

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Title:
THE OFFICIAL DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE of James Dayrolle, English Resident at the Hague, from Sept. 1706 to Nov. 1712 ; then at Geneva, from Sept. 1715 to Oct. 1717; and again at the Hague, from Nov. 1717 to Oct. 1738 ; as also of his nephew, Solomon Dayrolle, Resident at the Hague and Brussels, from May, 1747 to August, 1757 ; with some Letters and Papers of later date. In ten Volumes. Folio. Prefixed to the first volume is a biographical notice of the Dayrolles, written by William Upcott, ...
Scope & Content:
Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle: Correspondence as minister, with James and Solomon Dayrolle: 1735-1755.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1706-1786
Extent:
10 items

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