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1. Add MS 35289

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Add MS 35289
Title:
Chanson d'Aspremont
Scope & Content:
Contents: Chanson d’Aspremont, verses 24-376 and 395-540. Aspremont is the second of three chansons de geste of the Charlemagne cycle from the late 12th century, narrating Charlemagne's early expedition across the Alps to Aspremont in Italy to retake land in Calabria from the Saracen king, Ag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

2. Add MS 70848

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Add MS 70848
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Scope & Content:
MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Vol. X (ff. 122). Correspondence of Directors and Principal Librarians; 1849-1939, n.d. English and Latin. Contents: 1. ff. 1-88. John Winter Jones, Keeper of Printed Books 1856-1866, Principal Librarian 1866-1878; 1849-1878, n.d. A few of the letters are addressed to J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1849-1939
Extent:
1 item

3. Egerton MS 3050

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Egerton MS 3050
Title:
'L'HISTOIRE DES TROIS MARIES': a French poem in octosyllabic rhyming couplets, composed and finished in 1357 (see below) by Jehan de Venette, Provincial of the Carmelites in France. For an analysis of the poem see J. Bonnard, Les traductions de la Bible en versfrancais, 1884, pp. 196-206, who gives extracts from three MSS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, fonds francais 1531, 1532 and 12468). The poem tells the story of St Anne and her three daughters, St Mary the Virgin, St Mary Salome...
Scope & Content:
Jehan de Venette, Provincial of the Carmelites in France 1341-1366: 'L'Histoire des trois Maries': 15th cent.: Fr. Bindings NETHERLANDISH: Crimson velvet with silver gilt knobs and plaques of B.V.Mary, etc.: 17th cent. includes: f. 1 * Art. Engravings, etc: German woodcut: late 15th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1357
Extent:
1 item

4. Stowe MS 17

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Stowe MS 17
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours'). 1. (ff. 2v-13r): Calendar, in French. Incipit (f. 2v): 'KL Ienvirs at xxxi iors / li circoncicio notre saingnur'. 2. (ff. 18r-139r): Office of the Virgin. Incipit (f. 18r): 'Domine labia mea aperies'. 3. (ff. 140r-157r): Penitentia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

5. Stowe MS 146

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Stowe MS 146
Title:
Royal orders and warrants, 1512-1515
Scope & Content:
Collection of original orders and warrants, chiefly by King Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey, the King’s Almoner. Dating from between 1512 and 1515. Principally addressed to John Daunce, Treasurer for War. Concerning payments to English and foreign merchants for victualling the army in Spain, the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1512-1515
Extent:
1 volume

6. Stowe MS 170

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Stowe MS 170
Title:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat: Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609. Edmondes was in this period Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, at Brussels. The great majority of the letters here are originals, with some drafts by Edmondes, usually ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Extent:
1 volume

7. Stowe MS 582

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Stowe MS 582
Title:
Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains Le Sacre, Couronnement, et Entrée de Claude de France, an anonymous French account of the consecration, coronation, and royal entrée into Paris of Claude de France (b. 1499, d. 1524), Queen of France, and wife of Francis I (r. 1515-1547), which took place on 10-12 May 15...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1517
Extent:
1 volume

8. Stowe MS 584

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Stowe MS 584
Title:
Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne; Discours des Ceremonies du Sacre et mariage d'Anne de Foix avec Ladislaus Roy de Hongrie
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two French works attributed to Pierre Choque (b. c. 1450, d. 1530), herald and king of arms at the court of Anne of Brittany (b. 1477, d. 1514), Queen of France. The first text is the Complainte sur la mort d'Anne de Bretagne, beginning with a dedication to the 'Sire de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1514
Extent:
1 volume

9. Stowe MS 955

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Stowe MS 955
Title:
Pierre Sala, Petit Livre d'Amour (Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the collection of love poems known as LePetit Livre d'Amour (also known as Emblesmes et Devises d'Amour) by the French writer and collector Pierre Sala, copied c. 1500 (ff. 1r-17v), and an 18th-century transcript of this collection (ff. 18r-34r). Contents: ff. 1r-17v:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Italian
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

1 volume

10. Yates Thompson MS 13

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Yates Thompson MS 13
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, use of Sarum, with saints in blue, red, mauve and gold. Besides the usual Sarum saints are included the feasts of Dominic (30 May), Botolph (17 June), Mildred (13 July), Paulinus (10 October), Ethelburga of Barking (11 October), the Translation of Wilfred (12 Oct...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

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