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31. Add MS 18850

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Title:
Book of Hours (the 'Bedford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours of the use of Paris, known as the 'Bedford Hours'. The manuscript was produced in several phases. Its first owner, probably a member of the French royal family, remains untraced, but Louis (d. 1415), duke of Guyenne and dauphin of France, has been suggested as a possible candidate ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-1430
Extent:

1 volume

32. Add MS 18855

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a Book of Hours, made in Tours in the 1st quarter of the 16th century. Two leaves from a Flemish calendar illuminated by the artist Simon Bening (b. c. 1483, d. 1561) were added to the volume (ff. 108 and 109), probably in the first half of the 19th century. They were subseq...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

33. Add MS 18856

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Title:
Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx) (1st of 2 volumes)
Scope & Content:
This large codex is the first of two volumes comprising an illuminated copy of Guyart des Moulins's Bible historiale (Bible hystoriaulx), a French adaptation of Petrus Comestor's Historia scholastica, known as La Grande Bible historiale complétée (Fournié, 'Les manuscrits de la Bible historiale'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

Parchment codex

34. Add MS 18982

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Title:
Royalist correspondence, primarily addressed to Prince Rupert, 1645-1658
Scope & Content:
This volume includes correspondence to Prince Rupert during 1645; on the politics of the royalists in exile, and his naval career between 1648 and 1653. At the end is an undated document, a memorial between his brother, Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine, and King Charles II. There is some material...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1645-1658
Extent:
1 volume

35. Add MS 19399

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Title:
Royal and noble autographs, 1646-1768
Scope & Content:
Original letters, bills of privy seal, orders of Privy Council, and other documents, bearing the autograph signatures of royal and noble people, principally of England. Between 1646 and 1768. f. 1r-1v: Letter from the Parliamentary Commissioners to William Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Com...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Add MS 19402

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Title:
Letters to sovereigns of Scotland, volume 2, 1603-1624
Scope & Content:
The second volume of a collection of letters sent to sovereigns of Scotland, between 1603 and 1624. Including letters by: Princess Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales; Prince Charles; Sir Francis Bacon; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. f. i Printed title-page:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1603-1624
Extent:
1 volume.

37. Add MS 19633

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Title:
Esther Inglis, calligraphic copy of Les Quatrains de Guy Du Faur, Siegneur de Pibrac
Scope & Content:
Quatrains by Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (1529-84), first published in 1576. An autograph calligraphic copy by Esther Inglis (1570/71–1624), calligrapher. Given to Prince Charles, later King Charles I, as a New Year’s gift in January 1614/1615. With the Prince’s arms (f. 1v) and a self-portr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1615
Extent:
1 volume

38. Add MS 19669

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Title:
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César
Scope & Content:
Contents: The Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César is a universal chronicle covering the period from Creation to the rise of Julius Cesar, compiled early in the 13th century. This manuscript, with the alternative title Le Tresor des Hystoires, contains the first redaction of the text, sections I-X ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

39. Add MS 19969

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Title:
Letters and state papers relating to the treaties and embassies of Ferdinand de Boisschot, Baron of Saventhem
Scope & Content:
Letters and state papers concerning certain treaties and embassies. Principally relating to Ferdinand de Boisschot (c. 1560s-1649), Baron of Saventhem and Dutch Ambassador to England. With genealogies and arms of several families, 1615-1647. ff. 2r-10v Documents relating to the embassy of Ferdi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1615-1647
Extent:
1 volume

40. Add MS 20186

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Title:
Correspondence of Sir Hudson Lowe (d. 1844) with the inhabitants of the Ionian Islands
Scope & Content:
Memorials, official reports, judicidal papers, etc. The following are among the principal contents: 1. Memorial of Giuseppe Pelegrino, f. 2. 2. Memorial of several young men, for the return of Professor Wassan, f. 4. 3. Memorial from mariners of the Isle of Cephalonia; with original sign...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1806-1810
Extent:
369 folios

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