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61. Add MS 70518

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Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume

62. Add MS 72426

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Title:
Diplomatic correspondence, primarily English, 1614-1636
Scope & Content:
This is a file of the Trumbull papers, which came to the family through Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), government official and poet. Wekherlin came to England with experience of government in Württemberg and active support for Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth. He was c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
24 Mar 1614-26 May 1636
Extent:
1 file

63. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder

64. Add MS 89166

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Title:
Grant of arms of Sir Gilbert Dethick (d. 1584) to Jean Belmaine
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. c. 1510, d. 1584), Garter Principal King of Arms, to Jean Belmaine (fl. 1546–1559), French tutor to King Edward VI (r. 1547–1553) and Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603), dated 20 November 1552. The blazon of Belmaine's Arms is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
20 Nov 1552
Extent:

1 leaf

65. Add MS 89309

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (‘The Southwark Hours’)
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours in Latin with some French, made in Paris for an unknown female patron. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’, active in Paris between c. 1390 and c. 1410. Ker dates it to ‘probably not long after 1387’ as it contains a memoria of Peter of Luxembourg (b. 1369, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

66. Add MS 89542

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Title:
Giovanni Battista Gargha, Orationes
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of the Orationes of Giovanni Battista Gargha of Siena, envoy of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers), made for Fabrizio del Carretto (b. 1455, d. 1521), Italian nobleman and the 43rd Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1513 to 1521. Followed by the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1514-c 1522
Extent:
1 volume

67. Cotton MS Appendix L

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Cotton MS Appendix L
Title:
State Papers, 1513-1637
Scope & Content:
This volume, primarily of original douments, includes correspondence in the hands of Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey (1470/71-1530), Thomas Cromwell (d. 1540), and William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520/1521-1598); letters from Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532-1590) relating to the Babington conspiracy,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1513-1637
Extent:
1 volume

68. Cotton MS Augustus V

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Cotton MS Augustus V
Title:
Le Trésor des Histoires or Le Trésor de Sapience
Scope & Content:
Le Trésor des Histoires or Trésor de Sapience is an anonymous historical compilation in prose from Creation to the pontificate of Clement VI. The version of the Trésor in the manuscript is rare and has a Parisian origin. The only other copy of this version of the text is contained in Paris, BnF,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex.

69. Cotton MS Caligula B IV

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Cotton MS Caligula B IV
Title:
Records and papers concerning Mary, Queen of Scots
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, mainly concerning Mary (1542–1587), Queen of Scots. ff. 2r-94v: Copy of Edmund Plowden’s ‘Treatise of Succession’. Concerning the King’s two bodies, i.e. natural and political, and intended to prove the title of Mary, Queen of Scots, to the su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1542-1567
Extent:
1 volume

70. Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1

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Cotton MS Caligula B IX/1
Title:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579
Scope & Content:
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, 1556-1579. Volume 1 of 2. f. 1r-1v: List of titles of documents concerning the borders. ff. 2r-6v: Proceedings of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, and other commissioners concerning the borders. Containing copies of an indenture between th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1556-1579
Extent:
1 volume

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