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81. Add MS 36880

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Title:
Guiron le Courtois
Scope & Content:
Contents: Romances from the cycle of Guiron le Courtois: Roman de Guiron, also known as Meliadus or Palamedes (imperfect at the beginning, after ff. 163, 173, 261, and at the end). This manuscript lacks the prologue and the early sections of the romance, and begins with the account of Meliadus...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

82. Add MS 37056

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Title:
Robert Alexander Schumann's Sonata in F minor: "Concert pour piano seul", dedicated to Ignaz Moscheles.
Scope & Content:
Sonata in F minor (the original MS.), described by the composer, on a slip pasted in at the beginning of the MS., as 'Concert pour Piano seul composé et dedié a Mr. Ignace Moscheles par Robert Schumann. Œuv. 14.' For this he afterwards substituted (f. 19), at the request of Haslinger the publish...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
5 Jun 1836
Extent:
1 volume (25 folios)

83. Add MS 37639

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Title:
Messe Solennelle (Ste. Cécile), in full score, by Charles François Gounod.
Scope & Content:
ff. 41. Messe Solennelle (Ste. Cécile), in D, written by Charles Gounod, for 3 solo-voices and 4-part chorus, with symphonies and accompaniments for flutes, oboes, clarinets, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, [cornets-à-] pistons, trombones, kettle-drums, cymbals, big drum, 6 harps, strings, and organ, in ful...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1852
Extent:
1 volume (41 folios)

84. Add MS 38126

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome (The 'Huth Hours')
Scope & Content:
Contents: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, with prayers added in the 16th or 17th century. At the beginning are: 'Oraison a son bon angle' and 'Oraison de sainet Louys' in Latin, and prayers to Christ and the Virgin and 'Meditations sainet Augustin' in French (ff. i-ii, 1) ; and at the end are pray...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1485-1490
Extent:

A parchment codex, 252 folios.

85. Add MS 38662

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Title:
Gui de Warewic (Guy of Warwick)
Scope & Content:
Contents: The early 13th-century Anglo-Norman verse romance, Gui de Warewic, about the legendary soldier-saint, with a sequel about Rainbrun, son of Guy. Incipit 'Puis cel tens que Deu fu ned' (f. 1r) explicit, 'Que a lui en glorie puissums venir. amen.'(f. 80v). Decoration: Large puzzle initia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
1225-1275
Extent:

A parchment codex, 80 folios

86. Add MS 38663

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Title:
La Chanson de Guillaume or Chançun de Williame
Scope & Content:
Contents: This is the only surviving manuscript of La Chanson de Guillaume, a chanson de geste, part of the cycle of Guillaume d'Orange (William of Orange) relating the battles against the Saracens. Incipit, 'Plaist vus oir de granz batailles . et de forz esturs . . . Oimas comence la chancun ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
Mid 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 25 folios

87. Add MS 38664

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Title:
Vie de St Margaret and Miracles of the Virgin
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-3r: La Vie de St Margaret is a unique version of the text, incipit, 'A la deu loenge e a la sue gloire', explicit, 'Ou lun deit deu e la virgine servir. Amen'; ff. 3r-16v: Miracles of the Virgin, here entitled 'Gracial' (f. 3r), are dedicated to Dame Mahaut (f. 3v) and the te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
1225-1275
Extent:

A parchment codex, 16 folios

88. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

89. Add MS 38842

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Title:
Apocalypse with commentary in French prose (fragment)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Apocalypse fragment (from chapters 9-16). The text is close to that of the Queen Mary Apocalypse. Decoration: 18 framed miniatures in colours with gold. Large initials in gold, on rose and blue grounds with filigree decoration in white. Subjects of the miniatures: f. 1r: An ang...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:

8 parchment folios

90. Add MS 41131

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Title:
Letter from Florimond Robertet, seigneur du Fresne, Secretary of State, to Sébastien de l'Aubespine, Bishop of Limoges, Franch ambassador to Philip II of Spain; Fontainebleau, 28 July 1560
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Florimond Robertet, seigneur du Fresne, Secretary of State, to Sébastien de l'Aubespine, Bishop of Limoges, Franch ambassador to Philip II of Spain; Fontainebleau, 28 July 1560. In French. Robertet is disappointed at the hard conditions of the recent Treaty of E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jul 1560
Extent:
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