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2751. Add MS 73488

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Title:
Album Amicorum of P. Garforth
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Autograph album with signed verse and prose inscriptions by friends, possibly fellow students, of P. Garforth. Garforth himself has not been identified but may have connections with the Yorkshire family of that name. He was apparently in Hamburg, where most of the entries are dated, between 1781...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
1781-1784
Extent:
1 volume

2752. Add MS 73494

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MEROVINGIAN DOCUMENT: leaf of the Rental of St Martin’s Abbey, Tours; France; second half of 7th cent. Latin. Used as binding fragments of a MS. of Philippus on Job in the Tours library in 15th cent (MS. 56 in Tours’ 18th-cent. library catalogue, see L. Delisle, ‘Notice sur les manuscrits disparus de la bibl. de Tours’, Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibl. nat., 31, pt 1, 1884, p. 215). Other fragments from same source mention Agrycus, Abbot of Tours in 7th cent. Fragments first re...
Scope & Content:
Surveys and Rentals: Palaeography: Tours; Abbey of St Martin: Rental leaf from St Martin's Abbey, Tours: 2nd half of 7th cent: Lat: Fragm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
7th century
Extent:
1 item

2753. Add MS 73498

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LEAF FROM A BOOK OF HOURS: Sarum Use; England; 15th cent. Calendar leaf for parts of March and May, including feasts of Sts Boniface, Felix, Eloy and Germanus. Discovered as a binding fragment in a Book of Hours (Officium Beate Marie) of Sarum Use printed on vellum in Paris, Symonis vostre, in 1512 (B.L., C.192.a.122). Now catalogued as ESTC S105512, formerly STC 15906 (UMI microfilm, reel 134). Transferred from B.L. Dept. of Rare Books, 1997. Illumination is not of great quality and consis...
Scope & Content:
Liturgies LATIN: Illuminated calendar leaf: 15th cent: Lat: Fragm.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

2754. Add MS 73517

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LAWS OF THE FOREST: reading on the laws of the forests of England and Wales; late 16th cent. Imperfect. Partly Latin. A copy of the opening part of the widely-circulated reading given by George Treherne (d. 1526) on the 'Carta de Foresta' at Lincoln's Inn in 1520 (see J.H. Baker English Legal Manuscripts in the United States of America, II (1990), pp. 237, 331). The text is arranged in sections and includes descriptions of the definition of a forest, the creation of forests by the king, the ...
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Law OF ENGLAND: Woods and Forests: George Traherne, of Lincoln's Inn: Reading on the 'Carta de Foresta' by George Traherne: late 16th cent.: Partly Lat.: Imperf.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

2755. Add MS 73518

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Roberts Hours: Hours of Sarum use, written and illuminated in Southern England; before 1483 (obit of Joyce Roberts, died 27 Feb. 1483, f. 1v). Latin. Owned by William Roberts (d. 1508) of Little Braxted, Essex, or a member of his family. The obit of Joyce Roberts refers to William's first wife, and there are notes relating to the birth of six children, between 1476 and 1495, corresponding with those born to William Roberts (f. ii verso). The marriage of William Roberts to Joyce, daughter...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Calendars: Liturgies LATIN: Hours of Sarum use: bef. 1483: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
before 1483
Extent:
1 item

2756. Add MS 73541

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GEORGE HERBERT: 'Musae Responsoriae', with other poems, mostly in Latin; circa 1618-1620. Copies. The main item in this collection is the series of forty epigrams (ff. 6-18v) that Herbert wrote in reply to a poem composed by the Scots presbyterian Andrew Melville as a protest against the hostile reception given by the English Universities to the Millenary Petition of 1604. The Sapphic ode 'Pro supplici Euangeliorum Ministrorum in Anglia . . . Anti tami-Cami-Categoria', a text of which is pre...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton; formerly Milnes; Marquess of Crewe: Bookplate: after 1911. Bindings ENGLISH: Francis Bedford, bookbinder, of London: Binding by: before 1845. Poetry LATIN: George Herbert, poet: Andrew Melville, alias Melvill...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1618-1620
Extent:
1 item

2757. Add MS 73542

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JOHN RUSSELL (d. 1687): Epigrammatum Libri VI; circa 1625. Latin. Autograph fair copy, with revisions and corrections. Russell, a Laudian who served as Rector of Chingford from 1634 until his death, with one break during the Interregnum, published an elegy in English on Gustavus Adolphus at Cambridge in 1632. The present work comprises seven hundred and three epigrams numbered in separate sequences within each Book. Two (Bks. I, 53, and III, 85: ff. 8v, 39) are addressed to the Fellows of Ma...
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Poetry LATIN: John Russell, Rector of Chingford: Epigrammatum Libri VI: circa 1625: Latin: Autograph fair copy, with revisions. includes: f. 2 Poetry LATIN: Matthew Stoneham, the elder; Vicar of St. Stephen's, Norwich: Commendatory verses on Epigrammatum Libri VI of J. Russell: circa 1625: L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1625
Extent:
1 item

2758. Add MS 73544

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'TANACEI LIBELLUS ELEGIACUS AD JUSTUM': Love-elegies, etc., in Latin; n.d., circa mid-late 17th cent. Copy. Imperfect. The work, which is probably of Italian origin, consists mainly of a sequence of four elegies composed after the manner of Ovid, celebrating the love of 'Tanaceus' for a young man to whom he gives the pseudonym 'Chelintus' (f. 4v). These are preceded by an exchange of poems in which the writer confides his passion to his friend 'Justus', who counsels him to give way to his de...
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Poetry LATIN: 'Tanaceus', Pseudonym: 'Chelintus', Pseudonym: Chelintiades Elegiae on `Chelintus' by `Tanaceus': circa mid-late 17th cent.: Latin: Copies. includes: ff. 2-5v Poetry LATIN: 'Tanaceus', Pseudonym: 'Justus', Pseudonym: Exchange of verses between `Tanaceus' and `Justus': circa mid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2759. Add MS 73545

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'SYLVANI MARISCHALCHI AMORES'; n.d., circa 3rd quarter of 18th cent. Latin. The attribution of this collection of love poems, etc., survives on the spine of the binding only, and is of uncertain origin. The collection may be the work of the French writer Pierre Silvan Maréchal (b.1750-d.1803), author of the 'Bibliotheque des amans, odes erotiques . . .', 1777. It opens with a series (ff. 2-8v) of eleven pieces, several of them addressed to women bearing the pseudonyms of Cythara and Lycoris,...
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Poetry LATIN: Sylvain Maréchal, French writer: Love-elegies by and collected by `Sylvanus Marischalchus': circa 1770-1777: Latin and French: Apparently autograph. includes: ff. 9, 9v Poetry FRENCH: Sylvain Maréchal, French writer: Villanelle by Sylvain Maréchal: circa 1770-1777: French: Auto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2760. Add MS 73546-73769

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Title:
Barrington Papers. 73546-73769. Correspondence and papers of William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, (b.1717, d.1793), statesman; 1701-1882, n.d. The papers cover Barrington's official career, most particularly as M.P. for Plymouth (1754-1778), Secretary at War (21 Nov. 1755-21 March 1761 & 19 July 1765-16 Dec. 1778) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (21 March 1761-8 May 1762). Barrington also acted as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty (1746-1754), Master of the Great Ward...
Scope & Content:
George III of England: William Wildman Barrington-Shute, 2nd Viscount Barrington: Correspondence and papers, together with papers of other members of his family: [1327]-1934, n.d.: Partly French. Latin. English.: Partly printed and typewritten.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1701-1882
Extent:
225 items

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