Formulary relating to the abbey of Bec and its affairs in England
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin; French (135v–137v) Dated: last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century (109r–155v); 1st half of the 14th century (157r–181v)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century-1st half of the 14th century
This manuscript was made around 1405-1410, possibly for Louis, duke of Guyenne and Dauphin of France; in c. 1420 it was supplemented with a set of computistical tables (ff. 8r-11r); and in c. 1430-1431 the Psalter was possibly adapted for king Henry VI of England. At this stage the English arms ...
Miscellaneous political and historical tracts (originals and copies), including Richard Morison, A Persuasion to the King that the Law of his Realm should be in Latin (5r–22r: draft); The Policy and Government of the Duchy of Florence (30r–38r); and Calender or Cataloge off Mr Cotton’s 4 bookes ABCD of Treaties, Actes and Monuments, 1600 (204r–206v)
Papers relating to the University and town of Cambridge (originals and copies), including a list of its chancellors, AD 289–1605 (81r–102r), and arms of the university, selected colleges and Eton College (533r–537r)
Scope & Content:
Language(s): Latin, English, French, Anglo-Norman French
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Papers relating to heraldry, including Certein Questions ... touching the Baronnetts (23r–v) and Reasons for the place and precedencie of the Serieants at the Lawe (26r–v), with an index (31r–v)
Papers of members of the Society of Antiquaries, among them Arthur Agard (d. 1615), William Camden (d. 1623), Joseph Holland (d. 1605), Thomas Talbot (d. 1595 × 1599) and Francis Tate (d. 1616), including William Hakewill, The Antiquitie of the Lawes of this Iland (3r–4r); Of the Antiquitye and Etymologye of Termes and Tymes for administracione of Iustcye in Englande (9r–10v); Of the Antiquityes of the Howses of Lawe (43r–48r); A proiect touching a petition to be exhibited unto her maiesty fo...
Scope & Content:
Language(s): English, Latin and French; Old English (29r)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, French, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
