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51. Add MS 24663

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Title:
Collection of prophecies in prose and verse, attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-48r: Collection of prophecies in prose and verse attributed variously to Geoffrey Chaucer, Jean de Roquetaillade, Merlin, Thomas Becket and others, written in Middle English, Latin and French. f. 48v is blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

52. Add MS 25114

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Title:
Original state papers, 1527–1545
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–351v: A volume of original letters and state papers, relating chiefly to the embassies of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, to the courts of Francis I and Charles V, 1527–1545. ff. 1r–18r: Copy of a treaty in Latin between Francis I and Henry VIII for the marriage of the Princess M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1527-1545
Extent:
1 volume

53. Add MS 25698

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Title:
Eleven miniatures from a Book of Hours, with verses to the Virgin Mary (imperfect) and later additions
Scope & Content:
This item comprises eleven miniatures from a late-fifteenth century Book of Hours, likely produced in the Southern Netherlands. It was originally dated to c. 1492 because the image on f. 3 includes the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick III (r. 1440-1493) and the kings of England, France and Spain an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c 1475-1500
Extent:

11 parchment leaves, bound in an album.

54. Add MS 25884

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Title:
Histoire ancienne
Scope & Content:
Contents: Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César or Histoire universelle, with an added life of Caesar and a history of the Roman emperors. Contains the first redaction of the text, sections I - X (see Jung, La Légende (1996), pp. 342-43), but differs from other versions in the following ways: it ha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

55. Add MS 26769

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Title:
Genealogical chronicle of the kings of France to Charles VII
Scope & Content:
A genealogical chronicle of the kings of France known as ‘A tous nobles’. The chronicle consists of: Membranes 1-7: A central diagram with roundels in brown containing the names of kings joined by a line of descent in red. Roundels concerning the deeds of rulers (founding of religious orders or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 roll

56. Add MS 27443

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Title:
Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: Volume 1 of four volumes (Additional manuscripts 27443-27446) in this series of correspondence and papers of the Paston family of Norfolk from c. 1425 to c.1520: The documents in this volume date from c.1425 to c.1466 f. 74: List of conquests of Charles VI or France and Henry V of Eng...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1425-1466
Extent:
A collection of letters and papers bound together

57. Add MS 27445

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Title:
Paston Letters and Papers
Scope & Content:
Contents: The third of a set of four volumes of letters and papers of the Paston family from the period, c. 1425 to c.1520 (Additional manuscripts 27443-27446). This volume contains documents from c.1447 to c. 1500. (Numbers in brackets refer to numbering in the edition by Davis, Paston Letters...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1445-1500
Extent:
A collection of letters and papers bound together

58. Add MS 27539

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Title:
Universal chronicle, including a genealogical chronicle of the kings of France
Scope & Content:
Contents: A universal chronicle, including genealogical chronicle of the kings of France up to King Louis XI. Each column of text is accompanied by a genealogical diagram. Begins imperfectly, as the upper part of the first membrane is lacking, incipit ‘... de tous biens … ne doleur ne fain.’ ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

59. Add MS 27697

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Saluces Hours')
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours, described by John Plummer as ‘one of the finest and most inventive manuscripts illuminated during the fifteenth century’ (Plummer, The Last Flowering, p. 56). The manuscript was created in two or three stages, with an initial phase of production around 1440-50, and a second arou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1470
Extent:
A parchment codex

60. Add MS 28640

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Title:
COPIES of political pamphlets, pieces in verse, prophecies, etc., chiefly relating to events of the reign of James I., and particularly to the proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain, about 1620-1625, and at subsequent periods; made by [John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, co. Suffolk. See Add. MS. 22,959]:- 1. "Vox populi, or Newes from Spaine; author Tho. Scotte of Norwold in Norff.;" Nov. 1620, f. 1. 2. Prophecy of Merlin: "A Prince out of the Nor...
Scope & Content:
John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, county Suffolk: Diary: 1620-1643. Political and Satirical Poems: Pieces relating to the Spanish match: 17th cent. Charles I of England: Diaries of political events, by Rev. J. Rous: 1625-1643. Charles I of England: Tracts and poems referring to his propos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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