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1331. Add MS 43682

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COLLECTION OF SERMONS, in Latin, described in a 14th-cent. hand (f. 138b) as 'Sermones festiui qui incipiunt gloria hec e[st] omnibus sanctis', and on the binding (now f. i) as 'S[ancti] Ant[onii] de Pad[ua] sermones' but not included among his printed works. Originally probably two collections, viz. ff. i-87, and 91-135, which were bound together not later than the 15th cent. Both are mainly sermons for festivals and saints' days, but are not arranged in order of the ecclesiastical year. As...
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Sermons: Sermones festiui, probably Franciscan: 14th cent.: Lat. Orders Religious. Franciscans: Sermones festiui, probably of Franciscan origin: 14th cent.: Lat. Saint Antony,; of Padua: Sermons attrib. to: 14th cent.: Lat. includes: ff. 41 b-43 b Saint Anselm,; Archbishop of Canterbury: S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1332. Add MS 43683

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BOOK OF PRAYERS, etc., partly in verse; 15th cent. Latin and Italian. The parts in Italian are in the dialect of the Veneto, with some Tuscan elements, and include forms apparently peculiar to Verona. The frequent occurrence in the text of the prayers of such phrases as 'me peccatrice famula tua' (f. 19) indicate that the MS. was written for female use: the name 'Isabetha', in some cases subsequently deleted, occurs in the original text of prayers at ff. 3 b, 11b, 70 b, 72; that of Valeria h...
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Prayers: Prayers, verse and prose: 15th cent.: Lat. and Ital. includes: ff. 1-19, 38b-61, 63-67 Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: Prayers to: 15th cent.: Lat. and Ital.ff. 15-16 Saint Mary,; the Blessed Virgin: The joys of: 15th cent.: Lat.f. 19b Lodovico Pasini, alias Paxin: Inscription ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

1333. Add MS 43715

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437I5. HANDBOOK OF A FRANCISCAN CONFESSOR, probably an Observant (see artt. 8, 10, 11), compiled in Italy, perhaps at or near Bologna (see artt. 2, 5, 10); late 15th cent. The contents consist mainly of extracts from the works of St Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence 1446-1459, from earlier writings on canon law, and from bulls and other papal pronouncements, relating to the three orders of St Francis or to subjects connected with the hearing of confessions, absolution and excommunication. La...
Scope & Content:
Orders Religious. Franciscans: Hand-book of an Observant Confessor: late 15th cent. Law CANON: Handbook of a Franciscan confessor, containing misc. extracts, etc., rel. to: late 15th cent.: Lat. and Ital. Confession: Handbook of a Franciscan confessor: aft. 1472.: Lat. and Ital. includes: f....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1306-1499
Extent:
1 item

1334. Add MS 43766

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SAILING DIRECTIONS, MAINLY FOR THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN, apparently a Genoese compilation, see further below; 17th cent. Italian. Contains itineraries, etc., for the following voyages:-(1) Italian, French, and Spanish coastlines, [Genoa]-San Lucar de Barrameda, beg. imperfectly (see below) 40 miles E. of Monaco. At f. 8b there is a reference to the loss of a Genoese ship, 'La Patrona della serenissima Republica di Genova', off Cape Leucate in 1622. ff. 1-40;-(2) Italian and Greek coastlines...
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Navigation: Sailing directions for the W. Mediterranean, etc.: 17th cent.: Ital. Mediterranean Sea: Sailing directions for the W. Mediterranean, etc.: 17th cent.: Ital. Republic of Genoa: Sailing directions for the W. Mediterranean, etc., compiled by a Genoese: 17th cent.: Ital. includes: ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1335. Add MS 43874-43967

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE, LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS AND OTHER PAPERS OF SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, 2nd Bart. 1869, P.C., M.P. (b. 1843, d. 1911). The material was arranged on acquisition in ninety-four volumes, but in 1957 documents which had previously been reserved from public use (together with others which were presented by the Rt. Hon. Harold Macmillan, M.P.) were incorporated into the collection which was rearranged and expanded into one hundred and sixty-eight volumes, of which Vols. I-XCIV are de...
Scope & Content:
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet; PC; MP: Correspondence and papers: 1851-1911.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Malagasy, Russian, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1823-1922]
Extent:
94 items

1336. Add MS 44027-44054

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Title:
SAMUEL BUTLER PAPERS: correspondence and other papers of, or relating to, Samuel Butler (d. 1902), author of Erewhon, etc.; 1841-1920. For other Butler MSS. see Add. MSS. 36711-36713 (presented by R. A. Streatfeild) and 38176, 38177, 39846, 39847 (Presented by H. Festing Jones). In the final distribution of Butler's papers the present collection was assigned to the British Museum by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill, literary executors in lineal succession to Streatfeild, Jones and A. T. B...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bartholomew (Augustus Theodore) d.1933.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1841-1920
Extent:
28 items

1337. Add MS 44086-44835

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Title:
A SELECTION from the correspondence, official and private, literary manuscripts and other papers of William Ewart Gladstone (b. 1809, d. 1898)
Scope & Content:
Entering Parliament in 1832 as Member for Newark, he held a succession of offices, serving as Prime Minister four times, viz. :-1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, 1892-1894. Full details of his career will be found in the Life by Lord Morley, in which many extracts from these papers are printed. Cf. al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, and Welsh
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
787 items

1338. Add MS 44912-44913 C

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Title:
PAPERS OF COL. ALEXANDER JOHN FRASER, C.B., relating to his career in the Orange River Sovereignty, where he was a member of the Executive Council from 1853 to 1855; the Crimean War, during which he was seconded to the Turkish forces in Erzurum; and in Syria, where from 1861 to 1862 he was the British member of the International Commission appointed to inquire into the massacres of 30 July 1860; 1853-1866
Scope & Content:
English, French, Italian and Arabic. Accounts of Fraser's life are 44912, ff. 2-6 (copied from a newspaper cutting, now 44913 C, f. 10) and 44913 A, f. 1. Correspondents include Sir George Cathcart, Governor-General at the Cape; Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Earl and (1888) 1st Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1853-1866
Extent:
4 items

1339. Add MS 44916

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Title:
CALENDAR, in Italian, giving the major feasts of the church year observed in Malta, together with memorials for these feasts. The Calendar lacks May to August and includes:-19 Jan., St Publius (first bishop of Malta); 10 Feb. 'Nafragio (sic) di S Paolo apostolo in Malta Padre Padrone e Prottettore (sic) de Malta'; Sunday after the Nativity of the B.V.M., Feast of the Name of Mary (instituted in 1683); 13 Nov., St Didacus (a Franciscan laybrother, canonised 1588) and 4 Dec., St Barbara. The m...
Scope & Content:
Calendars: Calendar with major Maltese feasts: 18th cent.: Ital.: Imperf. Island of Malta: Calendar, etc., for major feasts: 18th cent.: Ital.: Imperf. Liturgies Italian: Calendar and memorials for major feasts in Malta: 18th cent.: Imperf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

1340. Add MS 44982

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Add MS 44982
Title:
A TREATISE, entitled (f. 3) 'Discorso se le Decime siano debiti legitimi ouero Limosine uolontarie', apparently unpublished, directed against the views of John Wycliffe and the followers of John Huss on tithes, by Giovanni Ciampoli (d. 8 Sept. 1643), Secretary for Briefs to Popes Gregory XV and Urban VIII until his disgrace and exile from Rome in 1632. Italian. Presumably a copy (note Wycliffe's name is misspelt consistently 'Vieleffo'). Preceding the text, on f. 2, is an address by Ciampoli...
Scope & Content:
Giovanni Ciampoli, Papal secretary and poet: Discourse rel. to tithes: 1643.: Ital.: Copy. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: North (Frederick), 5th Earl of Guilford;d. 1827.f. i Heraldry: Armorial bookplates of the 5th Lord Guilford, d.1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
13 Jul 1643
Extent:
1 item

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