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2301. Add MS 42132

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Title:
Fifty-six leaves (mainly non-consecutive) from a breviary (pars estivalis) compiled for use in the diocese of Agen, in France, with music.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript in its present state contains parts of the following offices:- (1) Temporale, 7th-22nd Sundays after Pentecost, ff. 1-12;-(2) Sanctorale, SS. Ambrose and Isidore (4 Apr.)-St Romanus of Blaye (24 Nov.), ff. 13- 52;-(3) Commune sanctorum, ff. 53-55. Included in the Sanctorale are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

56 folios

2302. Add MS 42239

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CHRONICLE, in Italian, covering the years 1438-1491, compiled probably by Cristoforo Schioppa (see below), a merchant of Verona (d. 1492). Beg. 'Evgenio de Nation venetiano dala sacrosancta Romana eccles[ia]'. Ends (f. 1 44) 'non curo del scriuer de lui ne de Ricomandation'. The chronicle, which relates mainly to Northern Italy, was first printed from the only other known MS. (Vicenza, Bibl. Bertoliana MS. Gonzati. M. 5. 10) in Monumenti storici pubblicati dalla R. Deputazione Veneta di Stor...
Scope & Content:
Verona, Italy: Chronicle attrib. to C. Schioppa: 1438-1491.: Ital. Christoforo Schioppa, d 1492 merchant, of Verona: Chronicle of events 1438-1491, attrib. to: 15th cent.: Ital. Italy: Chronicle, attrib. to C. Schioppa, rel. chiefly to N. Italy: 1438-1491.: Ital. History: Chronicle, attrib. t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:
1 item

2303. Add MS 42497

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Title:
Scenes from the life of John the Baptist
Scope & Content:
Contents: Scenes from the life of John the Baptist, perhaps illustrating the Hortus Deliciarum, originally a polyptych for private devotion or a flabellum (liturgical fan). Verses in Latin on the life of John the Baptist accompanying the images beneath, incipit, 'Nomen dant illi Iohannes grat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1200
Extent:

A parchment strip previously folded as a polyptych or flabellum

2304. Add MS 42503

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ORDINAL, of Genoese use, for the Office and Mass; 1st half 15th cent. Probably compiled for the cathedral church of St Lawrence at Genoa, as is indicated by the directions (f. 22) for the procession on Palm Sunday from the 'ecclesia maior' (cf. also f. 27 b) to the church of St Syrus, the former cathedral, and by the reference to the 'campane Sancti Laurentii' on f. 73. Genoa was probably one of the cities where the system of a 'double cathedral' was in force (cf. Hubert, 'Les cathédrales do...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Ordinal of Genoa use: 1st half of 15th cent. Republic of Genoa: Ordinal of use of: early 15th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Brown leather over boards, blind-tooled, with strap and clasp: 15th cent. includes: f. iii Virtues and Vices: Tract on the four cardinal virtues: 14th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2305. Add MS 42521-42522

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Add MS 42521-42522
Title:
EDLESBOROUGH PAPERS
Scope & Content:
The following, Add. MSS. 42521, 42522, were presented, with Add. Ch. 67906- 68051, by J. Norman Heathcote, Esq., J.P., of Conington Castle, co. Hunt.; see also Brit. Mus. Quart., vi, 1931-1932, PP. 50-51.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1478-1739]
Extent:
2 items

2306. Add MS 42555

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Title:
Apocalypse ('The Abingdon Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Content: Apocalypse in Latin with extracts on alternate pages from a French translation of the Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis, a commentary by Berengaudus. Begins with a five-line French prologue in red and gold. Incipit (f. 5r): 'Ici comence lapokalipse'. Explicit (f. 5r): ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 85 folios

2307. Add MS 42560-42561

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Title:
LETTERS, CHIEFLY ON LITERARY SUBJECTS, ADDRESSED TO THOMAS WARTON the younger, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and author of the History of English Poetry; 1742- 1826
Scope & Content:
. The writers, whose names are all given in the Index to this Catalogue, include Warton's brother, Joseph, Headmaster of Winchester, Edmond Malone, William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, and Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore. Percy's letters are included in The Percy Letters, [vol. iii]: The Cor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1742-1826
Extent:
2 items

2308. Add MS 42563-42564

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Title:
EPISTLE AND GOSPEL BOOKS for the major feasts of the year, written apparently for a Premonstratensian house in Flanders, possibly for the abbey of Ninove, near Brussels; 1599
Scope & Content:
Two volumes (vol. I, Epistles; vol. II, Gospels), each containing the Temporale and Sanctorale. The latter comprises lessons for the six feasts of the Virgin, and for those of St Norbert, St John Baptist, 'in divisione apostolorum', St Augustine Conf., SS. Cornelius and Cyprian (14 Sept.), 'in d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1599
Extent:
2 items

2309. Add MS 42575-42585

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Title:
SHERBORN AUTOGRAPHS
Scope & Content:
Original letters and papers, mainly of the 19th and 20th centt., selected from the collection of Charles Davies Sherborn, D.Sc. (d. 1942), which was formed largely in connection with his work at the British Museum (Natural History). The collector's own scheme of classification and alphabetic arr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
11 items

2310. Add MS 42586-42710

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Add MS 42586-42710
Title:
BROCKMAN PAPERS. Family and estate papers of the Brockman, afterwards Drake-Brockman, family of Beachborough, in Newingtonnext-Hythe, co. Kent, and allied families; 15th-19th centt. The members of the family with whose affairs the papers are primarily concerned are:- (1) Sir William Brockman (knt. 1633; d. 1654), royalist, m. Anne, sole daughter and heiress of Simon Bunce, of Otterden, co. Kent. (2) James Brockman (d. 1683), eldest surviving son and heir of (1), m. Lucy, daughter of Jame...
Scope & Content:
Brockman family; of Newington-next-Hythe, Kent: Papers and deeds of: 13th-19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-19th century
Extent:
125 items

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