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Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 12 C XII
Title:: A collection in prose and verse, including culinary recipes
Scope & Content:: Contents: This manuscript consists of eight originally independent units or booklets, each containing from one to four quires. See Hathaway, Fouke le Fitz Waryn (1975), p. xliv-xlvii on how this manuscript was compiled. The contents include: ff. 1r-v, Office in honour of Thomas, Earl of Lancas...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1320-1340
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 14 B VI
Title:: Genealogical roll of the kings of England
Scope & Content:: Contents: A roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (b. 1239, d. 1307), king of England from 1272, in the form of a diagram of interconnected roundels with royal portraits in colours and gold, and an accompanying commentary. Incipit: 'Par ce...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:: c 1300-c 1340
Extent:: 1 roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 19 B XVI
Title:: Le Miroir des Dames (an anonymous French translation of Durand de Champagne's Speculum Dominarum)
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains an early 15th-century copy of Le Miroir des Dames, an anonymous French translation of the Speculum dominarum, a treatise on queenship written for Jeanne de Navarre (b. 1273, d. 1305), Queen of France and wife of Philip IV (r. 1285-1314), by her confessor, Durand de Champ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1428
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Royal MS 20 A XVI
Title:: Chansons, in French, set to music for several, but in most cases three voices, in parts.
Scope & Content:: Except where the contrary is stated, the chansons are for three voices and are anonymous. The contra-tenor is sometimes called 'Concordans.' The names of the composers are given only in a few cases, but several are by Josquin des Pres, and one at least (f. 10b) is by Alexander Agricola. Content...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: Early 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume (36 folios)

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 2052
Title:: Sir Theodore de Mayerne, Pictoria, sculptoria et quae subalternarum artium (the 'Mayerne manuscript')
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains miscellaneous notes on the subject of artistic techniques, including the making of pigments, oils and varnishes, the priming and preparation of surfaces for painting, and the repair and conservation of paintings. The manuscript also contains notes of chemical experiments,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1620-1646
Extent:: 1 volume

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Sloane MS 3525
Title:: Aldobrandino of Siena, Le Régime du corps; Le livre de toutes herbes; Roger Frugard, Chirurgia; Antidotarium Nicolai; and other medical texts
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-2v, 1r-7v, 22v, 23r-v: Recipes in a hand of the 17th century. ff. 3r-5v: Table of contents, probably compiled by the scribe; this does not accurately list all contents, but contains a list of the chapters of the Régime du corps, and of the texts on ff. 82-108. ff. 6r-16v: A ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 6
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1841 to May 1844. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VI.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1841 to May 1844. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VI. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at The Times' Press, by J W Croscadden, 1844. With map and tables. The volume includes two short extracts in French.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1841-1844
Extent:: 1 volume (465 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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

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