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131. Harley MS 7395

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7395
Title:
Transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a large number of 17th-century transcripts of documents and letters relating to Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Mary, Queen of Scots, particularly the latter's execution in 1587. These contents originally seem to have been divided over five separate volumes, and bound...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

132. Lansdowne Roll 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne Roll 3
Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of the English kings to Richard II
Scope & Content:
Contents: Also known as Lansdowne Charter Rot. 3. Order as Lansdowne Roll 3. A genealogical chronicle, with a commentary in Anglo-Norman French, from the reign of Egbert to Henry III and a continuation to Richard II on the dorse. It is dated to the reign of Edward I (r.1272-1307) Face of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1272-1307
Extent:

1 roll

133. Royal MS 12 B XIV

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 12 B XIV
Title:
Bernard André, L'exposition du Pseaulme Huitesme; Vita beatae Katerinae; Aristotelis ad Magnum Alexandrum de Vite Institutione Oratio
Scope & Content:
This volume is a presentation manuscript, containing selected compositions of the French Augustinian friar and poet Bernard André (b. 1450, d. 1522), also known as Andreas. André was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) and a poet laureate, who served as tutor i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1509-1517
Extent:

1 volume

134. Royal MS 20 D XI

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 20 D XI
Title:
Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange
Scope & Content:
A collection of chansons de geste known as the Grand cycle de Guillaume d'Orange about the deeds of the legendary French hero William of Orange and his extended family. The Grand cycle comprises both the Cycle de Guillaume and the Cycle de Narbonne. These include tales of Guillaume's ancestors, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

135. Sloane MS 475

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475
Title:
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt); Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1r-124v; 125r-231r) bound together at an unknown period, both containing medical recipes, charms, various medical treatises and prognostics in a medical context. The first part was produced at the beginning of the 12th century in England. The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

1 volume

136. Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 1r-124v
Title:
Medical texts, prognostics, recipes and charms divided into 5 books, including Marcellus, De Medicamentis; Remus Favinus, Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris; Oxiepate; Pseudo-Galen, Liber de dinamidiis; Bede, De Temporum Ratione (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-4v: Medical recipe, imperfect. ff. 4v-6r: Observatio mensium secundum Bedam (Observation of Each Month according to Bede), dietary and health advice for each month, including verses on Egyptian days, followed by a caution against the dies caniculares and the three critical Mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475

137. Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 475, ff 125r-231v
Title:
Medical texts; prognostics and charms including extracts from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Pseudo-Galen, De febribus; recipes and a treatise on uroscopy
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 125r-130v: Extracts from Isidore of Seville (d. 636)'s Etymologiae (Etymologies), book 4, chapters 5-7. ff. 131rv-v: Pseudo-Galen, De febribus (On Fevers). ff. 131v-132r: A text on purgation, beginning: 'Hec est purgatio Ypocratis'. ff. 133r-v: A version of the Sphere of Apul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 11th century
Extent:
Part of Sloane MS 475

138. 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

139. 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

140. 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

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