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2501. Add MS 52608 A

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Add MS 52608 A
Title:
CALLIGRAPHIC COPY-BOOK OF CHRONOGRAMS Vol. I A. Written by Henderick van Haeften for Claes Burchman Dobbeszoon of Amsterdam; 1567 (f. 3)-1568 (f. 35b). Dutch. The chronograms include, with examples of alphabets, specimens of several types of penmanship and are expressed in a collection of moral verses and sayings, mostly representing either 1567 or 1568, the two years of the book's composition. If these two dates were intended in other cases, the author has miscalculated by one or more num...
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Chronograms: Calligraphically written book of: 1567-1568: Dutch. Watermarks: Arms of the University of Paris with name Siméon Nivelle: 16th cent. Claes Burchman Dobbeszoon, of Amsterdam: MS written for: 1567-1568. Henderick van Haeften: Calligraphic copy-book: 1567-1568: Dutch. Calligraphy: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1567
Extent:
1 item

2502. Add MS 52779

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Add MS 52779
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ROLL CHARTULARY OF THE VICARS CHORAL OF EXETER CATHEDRAL, co. Devon; circa 1230-1254. Latin. Imperfect, lacking its beginning. On its recto are copies of twenty-four charters and the end of a twenty-fifth relating to rents and property acquired by the Vicars Choral, of which the earliest is dated 1232 and the latest 1240. The original of one charter, a grant by Richard Wallerand, circa 1234-1253, is now Add. Ch. 75654. See The Eric George Millar Bequest, 1968, p. 38, pl. xviii. On its dors...
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Chartularies: Roll chartulary of Vicars Choral of Exeter Cathedral: 3rd quarter of 13th cent., 14th cent: Lat. Exeter, Devon: Cathedral. Roll chartulary of Vicars Choral: 3rd quarter of 13th cent., 14th cent: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1230-1254
Extent:
1 item

2503. Add MS 52798 A-B

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Add MS 52798 A-B
Title:
LETTER BOOK, ETC., OF SIR EDWARD DERING, 1st Bart.; 1629-1630
Scope & Content:
Partly Latin. Autograph. Sotheby's sale-cat., 28-29 June 1965, lot 75. Paper. Octavo.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1629-1630
Extent:
2 items

2504. Add MS 52799

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Title:
INVENTORY ROLL OF JEWELS, PLATE, ETC., charged to Robert Woodhouse, Keeper of the Wardrobe, with valuations and records of issue or disposal; compiled 20 Edward II [8 July 1326-20 Jan. 1327] for the accounting year 18 Edward II, ending 7 July 1325, as appears from the beginning of the inventory, Public Record Office, E 101/380/7, m. 1, from which the present roll was separated at an unknown date. Partly Latin. Mostly French. Imperfect. E 101/380/7, mm. 2 sqq., is part of a similar inventory ...
Scope & Content:
Edward II of England: Inventory of jewels and plate in Wardrobe,: 1326-1327: Lat. and Fr. Inventories: Jewels and plate in royal Wardrobe,: 1326-1327: Lat. and Fr. England; Royal Household: Inventory of jewels and plate in Wardrobe,: 1326-1327: Lat and Fr. Jewels and Plate: Inventory of jewel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[8 Jul 1326-20 Jan 1327]
Extent:
1 item

2505. Add MS 52913

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Add MS 52913
Title:
Record of a court case between Canonsleigh Priory and the parishioners of Morden
Scope & Content:
Record of a court case between the abbess and convent of Canonsleigh Priory, Devon, and Thomas Chaplain, William Holbele, John Partridge and others of the poor of Morden, Dorset. The case was held at Salisbury Cathedral by John Maydenheth, Vicar-General of the Bishop of Salisbury, in the consist...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Last decade of the 14th century
Extent:
1 roll

2506. Add MS 53709

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Add MS 53709
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS: Paper and vellum; ff. 47+31*. British Library arrangement. A. Letter from Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, physician, M.P. for Dublin, to Lord Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, Under-Secretary of State for foreign affairs, Baron Fitzmaurice 1906; 7 Feb. 1884. With printed enclosures concerning forestry. Formerly the property of J. E. E. Franklyn, Esq. Incorporated according to the terms of a minute of the Trustees of the British Museum of 19 April 1933. Paper...
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includes: ff. 1-8 Lord Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, Baron Fitzmaurice: Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons, MP: Letter to Lord E. G. Petty-Fitzmaurice from Robert Spencer Dyer Lyons: 1884.ff. 9-10 Aristotle: Commentary on a philosophical work by, or attrib. to: 13th cent: Lat: Fragm.ff. 11-15 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1200-1945
Extent:
1 item

2507. Add MS 53710

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Add MS 53710
Title:
THE THORNE CHRONICLE: chronicle of William Thorne, monk at St Augustine's, Canterbury, compiled at the end of the 14th cent. and covering the period 578-1397; early 15th cent. (script). Latin. One of two surviving MSS. of this text, the other being Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 189, ff. 46-190. Printed from both MSS. by Sir Roger Twysden in Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem (1652). The text is translated with introduction in A. H. Davis, William Thorne's Chronicle of Saint Augusti...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Brown calf, gilt-stamped: circa 1629. William Thorne, monk at St Augustine's, Canterbury: Chronicle of William Thorne: early 15th cent: Lat. England General: Canterbury; Kent. St Augustine's Abbey: Chronicle of W. Thorne: early 15th cent: Lat. includes: f. iii Poetry ENGL...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2508. Add MS 53782

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Add MS 53782
Title:
PHILIPOT COMMONPLACE BOOK: heraldic commonplace book of John Philipot, Somerset Herald (d.1645), containing notes made in various churches in Kent, with later additions; 1613-1704. Autograph. Partly Latin. The bulk of the volume (ff. 22-152v) is blank. For an account of Philipot and his manuscripts, see H. Stanford London, 'John Philipot, M.P., Somerset Herald, 1624-1645', Archaeologia Cantiana, lx (1946), pp. 24-53. For other volumes of similar but textually unrelated collections of arms an...
Scope & Content:
Commonplace Books: County of Kent: Heraldry: Genealogies: John Philipot, Somerset Herald: Heraldic commonplace book of John Philipot: 1613-1704: Partly Lat: Autogr. includes: f. 156v John Gibbon, Blue-mantle Pursuivant: Edward V of England: Account of the discovery of the bodies of Edward V an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1613-1709
Extent:
1 item

2509. Add MS 53800-53815

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Add MS 53800-53815
Title:
ADAIR PAPERS. ADAIR PAPERS: correspondence and papers of James Adair (d.1798), M.P., Serjeant-at-Law, and Recorder of London 1779; 1746-1813, n.d. Some copies and drafts. Partly French. The collection contains material relating to other members of the Adair family, including Adair's father, James Adair of Belfast, and concerning family property and public affairs in Ireland. For other papers of Adair, see Add. 50829, 50830 and Add. Chs. 75580-75586. Formerly the property of the Goldsmiths' C...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: James Adair, Recorder of London: Correspondence and papers of James Adair: 1746-1813, n.d.: Partly Fr: Partly copies and drafts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1746-1813
Extent:
16 items

2510. Add MS 54179-54180

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Add MS 54179-54180
Title:
MILLAR BEQUEST. Edith Mary Millar Memorial Manuscripts: manuscripts bequeathed to the British Museum by Dr Eric George Millar (b.1887, d.1966), Keeper of Manuscripts 1944-1947, in memory of his mother Edith Mary Millar. For the remainder of Millar's bequest, see Add. 54229-54323 and Add. Chs. 75641-75722. See The Eric George Millar Bequest of Manuscripts and Drawings 1967. A Commemorative Volume. BMQ, xxxiii, 1-2 (1968). Acquired 8 April 1967 at the bequest of Dr Eric George Millar. Vellum...
Scope & Content:
includes: inside upper boards Bookplates and Book-stamps: Eric George Millar, DLitt.; Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum: Bookplates of E. G. Millar: 20th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[1255-1299]
Extent:
2 items

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