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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28534-28548
Title:: Presented by the Earl of Derby
Scope & Content:: Manuscripts presented by the Earl of Derby.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:: 18th century-1842
Extent:: 15 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28550
Title:: Fragment of a register of the Cistercian abbey of Robertsbridge, Sussex, in Latin. Also included are some musical pieces.
Scope & Content:: 1. Part of a chronicle of the abbey; 1308-1333. Imperfect at the beginning. At the end is a reference to a continuation of the work in a later part of the original volume. f. 1. 2. Reports of suits in the courts of Exchequer and the King's Bench, with regard to claims of the abbey at Salherst,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28555
Title:: MEDICAL treatises, in Latin:- 1. General treatise, in six books, viz.: I. "De Ægritudinibus;" II. "De febribus " iii. "De aparentibus. . . . .in elite et sub cute;" iv. "De dieta quæ clauis et radix est medicine et maxime in Anglia;" v. "De simplici niedicina;" vi. "De conseruacione sanitatis." Imperfect at the beginning. f. 1. 2. "Anathomia magistri Ricardi uetuli;" beginning "Galienus in tegni attestatus," f. 29. For another copy see Sloane MS. 73. f. 89. 3. "Liber de modo medendi et...
Scope & Content:: Medicine: Tractatus medici: 13th, 14th, 15th centt. includes: f. 29 Ricardus Vetulus: Anatomia: 14th cent. f. 31 Stephanus: Liber de modo medendi: 14th cent. f. 31 Gerardus de Cremona: De modo medendi: 14th cent.: Lat. f. 31 Copho, Physician of Salerno: Medical collection from his works: 14th ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: Early 14th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28556
Title:: EXTRACTS from the works on natural history of Ulisse Aldrovandi, in Latin. As fly-leaf at the end is a fragment of a breviary of the xvth cent. containing part of the offices for the visitation of Our Lady, and for St. Mary Magdalen's day. Paper; xviith cent. Small Octavo.
Scope & Content:: Ulysse Aldrovandi, Naturalist: Extracts from his works: 17th cent.: Lat. includes: f. 183 Liturgies LATIN: Fly-leaves from Servicebooks: 10th-15th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28571
Title:: LETTERS and papers relating to the reformation in England; 1547-1609, viz.:- 1. Table of contents, according to the former arrangement of the collection, f. 1. 2. Copies of letters of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, to the Protector Somerset and the Council, and of letters to him, relative to the royal visitation of dioceses, the Book of Homilies, etc. Partly written from the Fleet prison; 1547, 1548. f. 3. 3. Johannes Hoperus [Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester ], to Martin Bucer; a...
Scope & Content:: Reading Abbey; Berkshire: Papers and letters relating to the: 1547-1609. England, Ecclesiastical History: Papers relating to the Reformation: 1547-1609. includes: f. 3 Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester: Correspondence with the Protector Somerset, and the Council: 1547, 1548.: Copies. ff....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1547-1609
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28572-28597
Title:: TRANSCRIPTS by Dr. Gustav Bergenroth of state papers in the public archives at Simancas and private collections in Spain, and in the public archives of Paris and Brussels, intended as material for a History of the reign of the Emperor Charles V., and containing much relating to affairs of England, especially the divorce of Henry VIII.; principally for the years 1520-1549, with a few papers of earlier and later dates. Twenty-six volumes. See the Catalogue of Spanish MSS. Paper; xixth cent. Fo...
Scope & Content:: Simancas, Spain: Transcript of State Papers at: 1520-1549. Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Transcripts of state papers, 1519-1558, made by Dr. Bergenroth for a history of: 19th cent. Henry VIII of England: Transcripts of State-papers, among which are many relating to his divorce: 19th cent. Br...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1437-1558
Extent:: 26 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28598
Title:: 1. Fragment of a commentary on Ecclesiasticus xi. 30-xxi. 17. Latin. f. 1. 2. Antiphonale secundum usum Anglicanum; with prayers and full rubrics ('The Ely Breviary'). Imperfect and mutilated. f. 9. Early xivth cent. ____ includes: f. 1 Bible. Commentaries: Commentary on Ecclesiasticus: 14th cent.: Lat.: Imperf. f. 9 Liturgies LATIN: Antiphonarium: English use,: 14th, 15th cent.
Scope & Content:: includes: f. 1 Bible. Commentaries: Commentary on Ecclesiasticus: 14th cent.: Lat.: Imperf. f. 9 Liturgies LATIN: Antiphonarium: English use,: 14th, 15th cent. Description of music on f. 14, from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music: 'Primo tempore alleuiata est. terra Zabul...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28617
Title:: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 28621
Title:: ORIGINAL letters by English and foreign writers, and miscellaneous papers; 1517-1757, viz.:- 1. Drafts of letters from Queen Elizabeth to Christian IV., King of Denmark; Greenwich, 27 Apr. a. r. 32 [1590], Richmond, 20 Mar. 1598[9]. Lat. :ff. 1, 4;-John III., King of Sweden; Greenwich, 9 May, 1590. Lat. f. 2;-The city of Groningen; Westminster, 5 Jan. 1597[8]. Lat. f. 3. 2. The Privy Council to the State of Genoa and to Fabritio Pallavicino; Greenwich, 27 July, 1600. Ital. Drafts. ff. 6,...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1, 4 Christian IV of Denmark: Letters to, from Qu. Elizabeth: 1590, 1599.: Lat.: Drafts. ff. 1-4 Elizabeth I of England: Letters to foreign powers: 1590 - 1598.: Lat.: Drafts. f. 3 Town of Groningen: Letter to, from Qu. Elizabeth: 1598.: Lat.: Draft. f. 6 Republic of Genoa: Letter...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1517-1757
Extent:: 1 item

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