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Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Otho E IV
Title:: Letter-book of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (d. 1592) as English Ambassador in France, 1580-1582
Scope & Content:: This is the letter-book (1580-1582) of Sir Henry Brooke alias Cobham (1537-1592), English Ambassador in France. (Cobham preferred to use the family title of Cobham as surname rather than the actual family name of Brooke). The volume was badly damaged in the fire of the Cotton MSS in 1731, so na...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1580-1582
Extent:: 1 volume.

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Tiberius B VIII
Title:: Cotton Manuscript Tiberius B VIII
Scope & Content:: The Coronation Book of Charles V, king of France (r. 1364–1380) (ff. 35-80), formerly bound with a 12th-century pontifical (ff. 3-34, 81-197), now separate volumes
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1365-1380
Extent:: 2 items, formerly bound together

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vespasian B II
Title:: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France in Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-15v: Pierre Gringoire, Pageants for the Reception of Queen Mary of France (1514–15) in Paris, 6 November 1514; the pageants took place after the marriage of Mary Tudor (1496-1533) to Louis XII of France. Poem on Anne of Brittany, queen of France (d. 1514) on an added paper le...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, ff 3r-3v
Title:: Medieval end-leaf, containing historical memoranda
Scope & Content:: This folio contains a medieval end-leaf, with historical memoranda copied in Latin in the 1st half of the 15th century (f. 3r) and in French in the 2nd half of the 16th century (f. 3v).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1st half of the 15th century-2nd half of the 16th century
Extent:: Part of Cotton MS Vitellius A XV

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1070
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of René of Anjou')
Scope & Content:: A Book of Hours, use of Paris, produced in Paris around 1405-1410, which was subsequently augmented by an addition of several prayers and full page images, at the instigation of René, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples, probably after his return from Naples around 1442-1443 (according to Reynaud, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2380
Title:: ORIGINAL letters, etc., of, and relating to, Franz Joseph Haydn, the composer, viz.:- 1. [Franz] Joseph Haydn to Williain Forster, music printer of London; Estoras [Esterhaz], 8 Api-. 1787-28 Feb. 1788. Fr. and Germ. f. 1. 2. Charles Jerningham to W. Forster; Cawsey [Cossey, co. Norfolk], 24 Aug. 1781, f. 11. 3. Acquittance from Haydn, as "Maestro di Capella" of Prince Esterliazy, to William Forster for £70 for the copyright of symphonies, etc.; Esterhaz, 1786. Fr. Signed f. 12. 4. B...
Scope & Content:: William Forster, Music printer of London: Letters from, and papers relating to, F. J. Haydn: 1787-1797.: Fr. and Germ. includes: ff. 1-12 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer: Letters and acquittance to W. Forster: 1787-1788.: Fr. and Germ. f. 11 Charles Jerningham: Letter to W. Forster: 1781. f. 17 J...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, and German
Date Range:: 17 Aug 1781-25 Jan 1788
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2615
Title:: Office for the Feast of the Circumsion; Hymns; Miracle play on the history of Daniel
Scope & Content:: Contents: A collection of texts set to music, with notation on 4-line staves for three voices. The manuscript is composite, in three parts: (ff. 1–78; 79–94v; 95–110). ff. 1r–68v: Office for the feast of the Circumcision (including, ff. 43r–44v, ‘Orientis partibus adventavit asinus’). A seri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1227-c 1234
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3028
Title:: Roman de Brut, with continuation to Edward III; La Destruction de Rome; Fierabras
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-56v: An abridged version of Wace's Roman de Brut, beginning at line 4883 of the longer version (Weiss ed. (2002), p. 124); the first quire is misbound so the correct order of the text is ff. 2, 8, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1 (mostly illegible), 9. The text is imperfect at the beginning: ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and French
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 14th century
Extent:: A parchment codex, 118 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978
Title:: Collection of poems including fables and musical, calendrical, and medical texts
Scope & Content:: A miscellany or 'manual' including poems, fables, musical, and medical texts, several of which are unique to this collection, such as the song 'Sumer is icumen in', the Song of Lewes, several poems by Marie de France and Goliardic verses. The collection was possibly compiled between 1261 and 126...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, French, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 978, ff 2r-15r
Title:: Musical miscellany
Scope & Content:: 1. Musical miscellany. Written in square notation on a five-line red stave; the notation sometimes denoting rhythm and at times corrected by a later hand. The text includes: Four monophonic Latin songs (ff. 2r-8v): ‘Samson dux fortissime’ (ff. 2r-4v); ‘Regina clemencie Maria vocata’ (ff. 4v-6r);...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:: 14 folios.

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