A collection of prints from or associated with the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
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This manuscript contains the second and larger part of a collection of engravings and woodcuts of ancient Roman architecture and art as it was found in 16th-century Rome (the first part is found in Cotton MS Augustus III/1). The collection features prints by Dutch, French, German and Italian art...
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland, including Thomas Churchyard, The scole of warre callid the sege of Lethe (1560)
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Records and papers on English and Scottish affairs in the mid 16th century and the first half of the 17th century. Including The scole of warre callid the sege of Lethe, a poem by Thomas Churchyard (1523?–1604), writer and soldier, concerning the 1560 siege of Leith. ff. 2r-36v: Account of all ...
Records and papers concerning England and Scotland (originals and copies), 1568/9–1585, including a diary of John Lesley, bishop of Ross (d. 1596), 1571 (4r–40r); letters of Mary, queen of Scots (1542-67; d. 1587) (ff. 171, 244–248, 261–262, 423, 618, 620); and the pleading of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk (d. 1572) (f. 189)
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Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 597. 1. A tract in 12mo. entitled, "Commentaria diurna Jo. Leslie episcopi Rossensis:" being the bishop’‘s journal, in his own hand, from April 11 to Oct. 16, 1571. 1. 2. Various papers and memorandums on the affairs of Scotland, and the nobility ther...