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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34071
Title:: A collection of madrigals, motets, elegies, and a catch
Scope & Content:: passim. Chansons and Madrigals, in score. The earlier ones are almost all of them taken from the collections of Gardane and Tylman Susato (1541-1550). Except where the contrary is stated, they are for 5 voices.1. 'D'amour me plains.' 'Mai[tre] Rogier, 1543.' This and nos. 2-6 are for 4 voices. f...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:: 1 volume (51 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34077
Title:: I. CORRESPONDENCE, political and private, of Sir Bernard Gascoigne [Bernardo or Bernardino Guasconi, of Florence], English Envoy to Vienna (in 1672-3), to negociate a marriage between James, Duke of York, and the daughter of the Archduke of Innspruck; 1657-1674. The contents are :- 1. Commission from Ferdinand II., Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Gascoigne as Captain of Cuirassiers; Florence, 9 Sept. 1657. Ital. Signed. f. 1. 2. Pedro Fernandez del Campo y Angulo to the Conde de Molina; Madrid,...
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Grand Dukes of Tuscany: Ferdinand II. Appointment of B. Gascoigne as Captain of Cuirassiers: 1657.: Ital.: Signed. ff. 1-63 Sir Bernard Gascoigne, Envoy to Vienna (1672-73): Political and private correspondence: 1657-1674. f. 3 Pedro Fernandez del Campo y Angulo: Letter to the Co...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1657-1713
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34079
Title:: ORIGINAL LETTERS and documents, official and private; 1513- 1839. Arranged in two series, English and Foreign, as follows:- I. English Series:- 1. Warrant of Henry VIII. to [George Talbot, 4th] Earl of Shrewsbury, " Steuard of our houshold and Lieutenant of our Vangarde," directing him to punish certain Welshmen of the retinues of [Charles Somerset] Lord Herbert [cr. Earl of Worcester, 1514] and Sir [Griffith ap] Rice for ill-treating the country-people and robbing churches at St. Omer a...
Scope & Content:: Sir William Paston, ob. 1610: Letter to, from the Commissioners of Musters for Norfolk: 1570. includes: f. 1 George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury: Royal warrant to, as Steward of the Household and Lieutenant of the Vanguard: [1513]. f. 2 George Poulet, High Commissioner of Ireland: Warrant si...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1513-1839
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34095-34096
Title:: OFFICIAL LETTERS to Sir. William Dutton Colt, Envoy to Hanover and Zell; 1690-1693
Scope & Content:: Two volumes. Paper. Quarto. The contents are:-
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1690-1693
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34096
Title:
Scope & Content:: Vol. II. (ff. 398). " Newsletters from England, the Camps in Flanders, & other places from ye 1st of June 1692 to the last of May 1693." The principal writers are:- James Vernon, Sen., Under Secretary of State;-Robert Wolseley, Envoy at Brussels; -Robert Yard, Clerk in the Privy Council Offi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1692-1693
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34098
Title:: CORRESPONDENCE of James Yates, of Highgate, with Konstantine Simonides, Sir F. Madden, Dr. S. Birch, and others, relative to Papyri in the collection of Joseph Mayer, of Liverpool; 1849, 1863-1864. The names of the writers are given in the Index. See a Report . . . on some of the Mayer Papyri, etc., Roy. Soc. of Lit., 1863. Paper; ff. 36. Folio. Presented by E. T..Dowson, Esq.
Scope & Content:: James Yates: Correspondence respecting the Mayer Papyri: 1849, 1863-1864. Joseph Mayer, of Liverpool: Correspondence respecting his papyri: 1863-1864. includes: f. 1 Minoïde Mynas: Letter to J. Yates: 1849.: Fr. f. 4 Sir Frederic Madden, KH; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Letter to J....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Greek, Modern
Date Range:: 1849-1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34114
Title:: A collection of Romances in French (The 'Spalding Manuscript')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff.1r-105r: A Chanson de Geste on the First Crusade with the colophon, 'Ci finist le siege d'Antioche onesque le conquest de Jerusalem de Godefrei de Boilon'; the only other known copy is in Oxford, Bodey Hatton MS 77 (according to Meyer, 'Récit de la première croisade', 1876; includ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1400
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34122 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: A. RECEIPTS and disbursements of William Stather, clerk, on behalf of Isabella, Lady Morley, for the year ending Michaelmas, 4 Edw. IV. [1464]. Latin. Lady Morley was dau. of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and widow of Thomas Morley, Lord Morley, who died in 1435 (see Blomefield's Norf...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: [1464]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34139
Title:: CLASSICAL and other works, with marginal and interlinear glosses, in Latin, viz..- 1. Q. Horatii Flacei liber de Arte Poetica. f. 2. 2. M. T. Ciceronis Cato Major vel De Senectute. f. 13;-Somnium Scipionis. f. 36 ;-Paradoxa. f. 42 b;-Liber de Amicitia. f. 61. With the colophon (f. 86 b), " Finitur is liber 1492." 3. " Augustinus de coufliccione virtutum et viciorum," in leonine verse, beg. : " [V]os qui sub Christo mundo certatis in isto " (cf. Cotton MS. Julius A. vii. f. 66). f. 56. 4....
Scope & Content:: MSS. dated (to A.D. 1500): : A.D. 1339-40; A.D. 1350-1357; A.D. 1355-56; A.D. 1360-1363; A.D. 1388-1537; A.D. 1391-1484; A.D.1393-1538; A.D. 1402-1516 ; A.D. 1464; A.D. 1473; A.D. 1474-5; A.D. 1477; A.D. 1492; A.D. 1499: Latin and Modern Languages. Book-plates: Shepherd (Rev. W-): 1808. Revere...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1492-Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

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