Search

Language Latin Level [32] Fonds

2601. Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61101-61710, Add Ch 76069-76142, Seal CCV.8
Title:
BLENHEIM PAPERS
Scope & Content:
The archive, formerly housed at Blenheim Palace, co. Oxon, consists chiefly of the correspondence and papers of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, his wife Sarah, née Jenyns, and their son-in-law Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, whose descendants by his second wife, Anne Churchill,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Catalan, Cipher, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish
Date Range:
16th century-20th century
Extent:
610 items

2602. Add MS 61725

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61725
Title:
THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC: an illustration in coloured outline drawing probably cut from a copy of the chronicle of Peter of Poitiers (Petrus Pictaviensis, Chancellor of Paris), Compendium in genealogia Christi; early 13th cent. Probably executed in England. Latin. The illustration is set within a roundel and is executed in red and black inks. On the verso is a biblical genealogical tree in red, yellow and green. This suggests that the fragment was taken from a codex rather than a roll. Other e...
Scope & Content:
Petrus, Pictaviensis; Chancellor of Paris: Chronicles: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Outline drawing of the Sacrifice of Isaac, from the 'Compendium in genealogia Christi' by Peter of Poitiers: early 13th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century
Extent:
1 item

2603. Add MS 61734

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61734
Title:
MINIATURE OF ST NICHOLAS: An historiated initial S from a choir book; second half of the 15th cent. Executed in Italy. Latin. Square neumatic notation on red four-line staves. The initial is executed in pink with fleshy foliate extensions on a gilded ground. It is inhabited by St Nicholas of Myra, depicted frontally and enthroned, clothed in episcopal vestments and holding a crozier and three golden balls, his hand raised in benediction. Presented by Maurice J. Sainty Esq., 4 Feb. 1980. Ve...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Miniature of St Nicholas from a choir book: second half of the 15th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

2604. Add MS 61735

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61735
Title:
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1007-1025
Extent:
A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

2605. Add MS 61818

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61818
Title:
LIVERPOOL PAPERS: miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Liverpool; after 1763-1836, n.d. Supplements Add. 38190-38499, 38564-38581, 59772 and Loan 72. Label of the Rawlins Collection of Historical Documents and A.L.S. (f. 4v). Purchased at Sotheby's, 2 June 1980, lot 191. Paper; ff. 118. 230 x 185mm. British Library arrangement. 1. ff. 1-24. Letters to Charles, 1st Earl of Liverpool; after 1763-1801. 2. ff. 25-111. Correspondence of Robert Banks, 2nd Earl ...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Sir Simeon Stuart, Baronet: John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute: Letter to Lord Mount-Stuart from Sir Simeon Stuart: aft. 1763.ff. 1-24 Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool: Letters to Lord Liverpool: aft. 1763-1801.f. 3 John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich: Letter to C. Jenkin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1763-1836
Extent:
1 item

2606. Add MS 61822

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61822
Title:
William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, including Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
Scope & Content:
A largely autograph miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, which belonged to William Briton (1564–c. 1636) of Kelston, Somerset. The manuscript began life as a household account-book (ff. 116v–120r) of his father, John Briton or Bryton (d. circa 1586). It consists mainly of entries made by William...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1654
Extent:
1 volume

2607. Add MS 61823

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61823
Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

2608. Add MS 61860-61876

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61860-61876
Title:
NORTH (SHEFFIELD PARK) PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford, together with miscellaneous earlier and later family papers; 1600-1814, n.d. Purchased of Mrs K. F. King, of Fletching, 12 Sept. 1980. Paper. Seventeen volumes. British Library arrangement.
Scope & Content:
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; Lord North; Prime Minister: Correspondence and papers of Frederick North: mostly 1760-1792.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1814
Extent:
17 items

2609. Add MS 61880

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61880
Title:
BOOK OF CALLIGRAPHIC SPECIMENS: by members of the Manuscript Club, for presentation, as a token of appreciation, to William Graily Hewitt; assembled on 1 July 1938. English, Latin and French. Many pieces are illuminated as well as calligraphically written. A list of contributors occurs on ff. 41-41v. Presented by David Mure Wacher, nephew of Graily Hewitt's wife, Lilian. Vellum; ff. 41. 265 x 200mm. Binding of dark green morocco with gold tooling, incorporating the monogram 'WGH', by Peter...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Peter McLeish, binder: Green morocco gold tooled binding by Peter McLeish: 1938. Calligraphy: William Graily Hewitt, scribe: Manuscript Club: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Book of calligraphic specimens presented to William Graily Hewitt by the Manuscript Club: 1938...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 item

2610. Add MS 61887

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 61887
Title:
Calendar from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: Six folios from the Calendar of the Hungerford Hours. The British Library holds two other leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 62106 (a leaf from None in the Hours of the Virgin) and Additional MS 72707 (a leaf from the Litany). For further identified leaves from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:

6 parchment leaves.

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »