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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39759-39762
Title:: Formed part of the library of the Rev. E. S. Dewick, F.S.A. (d. 1917).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1302-1503]
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39777
Title:: COPIES OF TREATIES, especially documents connected with the Peace of Brétigny between England and France. French, except a few in Latin. The contents are identical with those of Royal MS. 20 D. X, of which a full description with references to Rymer's Foedera is given in the Catalogue of the Royal MSS. 1. " De pace Francie et Anglie " : thirty-three documents issued in the name of Edward III and connected with the Peace of Brétigny. The first thirty are dated Calais, 24 Oct. 1360, the la...
Scope & Content:: Treaties: Copies of treaties: late 14th cent.: Fr. and Lat. Records, Public: Copies of treaties: late 14th cent.: Fr. and Lat. includes: ff. 1, 56 b Edward III of England: Treaty of Brétigny, with France: 1360.: Fr.: Copies, late 14th cent.ff. 1, 56 b John II of France: Treaty of Brétigny...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1360-1399
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39778
Title:: MAGICAL work, in Italian and Latin, written on blackened paper in white and red ink, with a title-page (f. 3) in Italian, " Prezzioso esperimento arcano di Pietro d'Abbano 1470," and one (f. 7) in Latin, " Arcanum experimentum pretiosum ex autore Petrus (sic) de Abbano Philosophi (sic) 1470." It is not the Heptameron or the Geomantia attributed (but the former probably incorrectly; see A. E. Waite, The Book of Black Magic, p. 67, Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d'Italia, i, p. 10) to Petrus de Abano,...
Scope & Content:: Magic: "Prezzioso esperimento arcano," attrib. to Petrus de Abano: early 19th cent.: Ital. and Lat. Petrus de Ahano, d 1316: "Prezzioso esperimento arealio " attrib. to: early 19th cent.: Ital. and Lat.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 19th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39779-39793
Title:: Third portion of the Alfred Morrison Collection sold at Sotheby's, 9-13 Dec. 1918.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [1598-1866]
Extent:: 52 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39794-39808
Title:: BAX RUBBINGS AND PAPERS. Rubbings of monumental brasses and stones, mainly in England, collected by Alfred Ridley Bax, with notes, pedigrees, etc., 19th-20th centt. The names of persons and places are given in the index. Eleven volumes and many rolls. Bequeathed by the collector.
Scope & Content:: Genealogies: A. R. Bax, pedigrees: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:: 19th century-20th century
Extent:: 150 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39810
Title:: PSALTER, etc., in Latin, known as the Psalter of the St. Omer family. Contents:- (1) Calendar. f. 1 ;- (2) Psalter, Gallican version. f. 7 ;- (3) Canticles. " Audite, celi " wants Deut. xxxii, 25-38, through loss of one leaf after f. 162, and " Quicumque vult " is imperfect through loss of a leaf after f. 166. f. 156 ;- (4) Litany. f. 167. The Calendar (15th cent., in blue, red, and black) is of Sarum use. Entries include St. Anne (26 July), SS. David. Chad (1, 2 March), and Winifred (3 Nov....
Scope & Content:: Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Bookplates. St. Omer family; of Mulbarton, Norfolk: Psalter begun for member of: circ. 1325; completed 15th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Psalter of the St. Omer family of Mulbarton, co. Norf.: circ. 1325, and 15th cent. Nicolas Denis Derome le jeune: Bind...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th and Early 15th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39821
Title:: RUBBING of part of the original inscription, in Latin hexameters, from a sepulchral brass in the chancel of Bromham church, co. Bedf., made for Thomas Wydvile, of Grafton (d. 1435), and his wives, but adapted (16th cent.) to commemorate Sir John Dyve, of Bromham (d. 1535), and his wife and mother (see Victoria County Hist., Bedf., iii, p. 47, Haines, Manual of Monumental Brasses, ii, p. 4, Mill Stephenson, List of Monum. Brasses, 1926, p. 3). The fragment, detached from the brass to make roo...
Scope & Content:: Thomas Wydvile, d 1435 of Grafton: Rubbing of inscription to him and his wives at Bromham, co. Bedf.: Lat. Bromham, Bedfordshire: Rubbing of inscription of brass to T. Wydvile at: 1435. Brasses, Sepulchral: Rubbing of an inscription at Bromham, co. Bedf.: 1435.: Lat.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39828-39838
Title:: TRESHAM PAPERS : correspondence and papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 ?-1605), recusant and builder. The papers were discovered in 1828 at Rushton Hall, co. Northt., formerly the seat of the Treshams, under circumstances detailed in the following note (39828, f. 8) : " This, along with a large quantity of Popish books, letters and papers, were (sic) some years ago discovered at Rushton Hall in pulling down a very thick partition wall in the passage leading from the Great Hall. In taking dow...
Scope & Content:: Sir Thomas Tresham, d 1605 the third; Catholic recusant: Correspondence and papers.: bef. 1605. Tresham family: Correspondence, papers and deeds: temp. Hen. III-1622.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1440-1605]
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39844
Title:: PSEUDO-ARISTOTLE, Secretum Secretorum, and Le Livre du Trésor of Brunetto Latini, in Italian translations. For previous descriptions see Twenty MSS., Collection of H. Y. Thompson, Third Series, 1907, pp. 119-126 (plates in Illustrations, ii, 1908, pl. xxxiv-xxxvii), and New Palaeographical Soc., ii, pl. 110-111. 1. " Questo e lo libro d'Aristotile . lo quale e detto Sagreto Sacretorum del reggimento de principi et de re o de signori . lo quale mando al grande re Alexandro " : the pseudo-Ari...
Scope & Content:: ? Léon Gruel: Binding by: 19th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Translation of Brunetto Latini's Trésor, etc. : miniatures and decorative initials: 1425. Bookplates: Thompson (Henry Yates), d. 1928. Bindings FRENCH: Dark red morocco, blind-tooled, by Gruel: 19th cent. Manuscrip...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: [1425]
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 39848-39849
Title:: Paston letters: Sir John Fastolf's will and papers relating to his family
Scope & Content:: Additional MS 39848, ff. 1-371: Letters and papers relating mostly to Sir John Fastolf and his family. Additional MS 39849, f. 1: A copy of the will of Sir John Fastolf (d. 1459).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1459-1799
Extent:: 2 volumes

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