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1. Sloane MS 116

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 116
Title:
A small-size luxury prayerbook
Scope & Content:
This small-sized luxury prayerbook was produced in France around 1520, but apparently owned by an anonymous English woman in or before 1530. It features holograph inscriptions of King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey addressed to her. The manuscript’s full-page illustrations are in the style of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1520
Extent:
1 volume

2. Sloane MS 809

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 809
Title:
Walter of Bibbesworth, Tretiz de langage
Scope & Content:
Contents: Walter of Bibbesworth ('Biblesworth'), Tretiz de langage, a poem in Anglo-Norman French verse with an English glossary, composed in the mid 13th century as a tool for teaching useful French vocabulary to English landowners. It exists in a long and a short version. This text resembles...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, and French
Date Range:
c 1300
Extent:

1 roll

3. Sloane MS 1009/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/1
Title:
Collection of miscellaneous papers, including the Memoriale Credencium; Reclusorium Anime; Three Workings on Man's Soul; Geoffrey Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus; Speculum sacerdotis; Computacio daniele prophete sive sompniale; Albertus Magnus, De mineralibus et lapidibus; Astrological tracts; Correspondence of Gédéon Bonnivert; Collection of puzzles with cards and dice in French; Gédéon Bonnivert, L'A. B. C. du Monde; De virtutibus herbarum; Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the first part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts, and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The second part is Sloane MS 1009/2. The collection contains a large number of early modern it...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 18th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Sloane MS 1009/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1009/2
Title:
Collection of early modern literary papers in English and French
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is the second part of a large collection of miscellaneous texts, tracts and letters that may have been gathered by Sir Hans Sloane (b. 1660, d. 1753), and is now divided in two parts. The first part is Sloane MS 1009/1. The manuscript contains a large number of early modern ite...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Sloane MS 1156

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1156
Title:
Account of the journey of Henri Auguste de Loménie de Brienne, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, to England as Ambassador Extraordinary, 1624
Scope & Content:
This is an account of the journey of Henri -Auguste, Seigneur de la Ville-aux-Clercs, later Comte de Brienne (1594-1666), to England, 20 Nov 1624-15 Jan 1625, as Ambassador Extraordinary to ratify the articles of marriage between Henrietta Maria and the Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles I. Alo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1624-1699
Extent:
1 volume

6. Sloane MS 1977

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 1977
Title:
A medical anthology including Roger Frugardi's Chirurgia
Scope & Content:
The longest text in this medical anthology is a French translation of the Chirurgia, written by the Lombard surgeon Roger Frugardi (or Roger Frugard of Salerno, Roger Frugard of Parma, Roger de Salerne, Rogerius Salernitanus, b. before 1140, d. before 1195) in the late 12th century. This manuscr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter 13th century-1st quarter 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

7. Sloane MS 2435

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2435
Title:
Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Gautier of Metz, L'Image du monde
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-76v: Aldobrandino da Siena, Le Régime du corps, a handbook on health, composed for Beatrice de Savoie (b. 1220, d. 1266), according to the prologue; the contents are based mainly on Latin translations of Arabic medical texts. There are 68 manuscripts surviving in two textual f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1265-1270
Extent:

1 volume