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3141. Egerton MS 2851

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Egerton MS 2851
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE Of distinguished botanists, chiefly French and English, consisting for the most part of letters from Philip Barker Webb to H. B. A. Moquin-Tandon, and from others to the same and to Webb; 1784-1860. The names of all the writers are given in the Index. Among them are Sir John Sinclair, Candolle, Berthelot, Sir R. H. Schomburgk, Sir W. J. Hooker, and Prouvensal de Saint Hilaire. A few engraved portraits are included. Paper; ff. 228. Quarto. From the Farnborough Fund.
Scope & Content:
Botany: Letters, autographs and portraits botanists: 1784-1860, and n.d. includes: f. 1 Jonathan Stokes: Letter to C. L. L'Heritier de Brutelle: 1784.f. 3 James Lee, nurseryman: Letter to botanist in Paris: 1786.f. 4 Samuel Foart Simmons, Physician Extraordinary to George III: Letter to P. M. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1784-1860
Extent:
1 item

3142. Egerton MS 2852

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2852
Title:
A Collection of Medical and Scientific works
Scope & Content:
Medical and Natural Science collections in Latin and English. On f.1 is the later title 'A boke of making of prizous waters and medicens, in parchement, haveing the numbre 1565' Contents:- 1. " Liber de aquis," mostly as in Add. MS. 32622, ff. 95-101 b, but in a different order and including ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3143. Egerton MS 2863

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2863
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ('The Norton MS')
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. ii verso: a note in a 19th or early 20th-century hand, stating that the book formerly belonged to the Priory of Southwick in Hampshire, that it was given by Richard Norton Esquire to his brother John Chichely Esquire, and that the medieval scholar John Urry (b. 1666, d. 1715) made...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3144. Egerton MS 2864

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2864
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; John Lydgate, The Siege of Thebes; Chronicle of the Saints and Kings of England
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-292r: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, beginning, 'Incipit Liber Galstid Chaucer de gestis peregrinor[um] versus Cantuariam', with extensive glossing and marginal headings in Latin and Middle English. Over 50 of the glosses also appear in Add MS 5140. The Tales are arra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

3145. Egerton MS 2865

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2865
Title:
BREVIARY, of Ambrosian use, in Latin. Sixty-four leaves seem to be lost at the beginning. Contents:-(1) Calendar, with Milanese saints, followed by sundry notes and rubrics, benedictions, and a paschal table beginning in 1401. f. 2;-(2) De tempore, pais hiemalis, including saints, from Advent to Easter Eve. Imperfect, beg. with second Sunday in Advent. Colophon, "Explicit breviarium yemale." f. 10;-(3) "Hic modo incipit breviariuim estiuum...secundum usum ecclesie Mediolanensis": the pars ae...
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts, Dated (to A.D. 1500): Latin and Modern Languages.: 1332-1457: A.D. 1402. Antonius de Ubertis, priest of Valtorta, diocese of Milan: Wrote: in 1402. Milan: Ambrosian breviary, with litanies for: 1402.: Lat. Liturgies: Breviary, Ambrosian use: 1402. Art. Illuminations and Drawings...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1402
Extent:
1 item

3146. Egerton MS 2867

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Egerton MS 2867
Title:
BIBLE, in Latin: Vulgate version. The order of books (shown below) and the prefaces (references to Berger's Mém. prés. à l'Acad. des Inscr., 1 sér., tom. xi, partie ii.) are of a usual type, though the preface appended to Job is less common. There are no summaries, nor indication of divisions other than Langton's. The calendar (f. 423) is evidently of St. Martin's Priory, Dover (dedication, 19 Oct), a cell of Christ Church, Canterbury, and contains the usual Christ Church saints (cf. Arund. ...
Scope & Content:
Dover: St.Martin'sPriory. Calendar of, in Bible: 13th cent. Bindings ENGLISH: Black leather, tooled: 17th cent. Bible LATIN: Bible: early 13th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Bible: 13th cent. includes: ff. 423, 534 Liturgies: Calendar (Dover) and table of epistles and gosp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
13th century
Extent:
1 item

3147. Egerton MS 2875

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2875
Title:
"PIETAS JESUITICA," by Phineas Fletcher, preceded by an anonymous theological treatise, viz.:- 1. "Of the Fall and Restitution of Man": a treatise intended (f. 6) by the author (a Roman Catholic) as a summary of his former treatises "about prayer, divine inspirations or call, discretion, confession, behaviour in tyme of sicknesse, of vertues, as temperance, patience, etc.........to the which summarie as to two certaine principall heads, namelye Praire and Mortification, that is the exercis...
Scope & Content:
Fall The: "Of the Fall and Restitution of' Man," anonymous treatise: circ. 1635. James I of England: P. Fletcher's "Locustae," dedicated to Prince Henry: 1610-1612. includes: f. 151 William Rudesind Barlow: Imprima- tur, as Professor of Theology at S. Vedast's, Douay: 1636.: Copy.f. 152 b ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1611-1612
Extent:
1 item

3148. Egerton MS 2877

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2877
Title:
COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, co. Durham, containing notes of sermons by Puritan and other divines, miscellancous historical matter, etc. Tables of contents are at ff. 2 b, 188. The date 1591 on the cover is perhaps that of the commencement of the collection. The chief contents are:- 1. Copy of a sundial, with the name of Rob. de Freuyle, 1583. f. 1. 2. Calligraphical design, "Servire deo est regnare." f. 2. 3. Beginning of a compendium of English history, d...
Scope & Content:
London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: Sermons by puritan and other divines,: circ. 1604-1611. Sermons: Notes of sermons by puritans and others, chiefly in London: circ. 1604-1611. Francis Marberry, rector of St: Martin, vintry, and St. Pancras, Soper Lane. Sermons by: circ. 1605-1610. Commonp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1579-1622
Extent:
1 item

3149. Egerton MS 2885

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2885
Title:
COMPILATION of London customs, made for a London fishmonger, circ. 1395. Contents:- 1. List of sheriffs and mayors, 1 Rich. I.-19 Rich. II. f. 1. 2. Chronological memoranda in Latin, in several series, viz.:- (a) Notes on the seven ages, etc., beg. "In principio creauit." f. 8;-(b) Brief annals of England from Brutus to 1388. f. 8 b;- (o) Very brief London annals (l¼ pages), 1087-1382. f. 13;- (d) A few miscellaneous dates, 680-1378. f. 13 b. 3. Confirmation-charters of Richard I...
Scope & Content:
London City Companies: Compilation of customs, statutes, etc., made for a London fishmonger: 13th-14th centt. includes: f. 1 London, Parishes. St. Mary Aldermary: List of sheriffs and mayors from 1 Rich. I. to 19 Rich. II.: 14th cent.f. 1 D- Ord, of Clare Hall, Cambridge: Name inscribed: e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1281-1400
Extent:
1 item

3150. Egerton MS 2889

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2889
Title:
LIVES OF SAINTS, in Latin. Imperfect at beginning and end, and also wanting leaves after ff. 4, 9, 64, 132, 144, 145, 151, 167, 171, 176, 178 and 180. Four lives and part of the fifth are lost at the beginning, as appears by the marginal numbering. It is impossible to say how many, are lost at the end; but in its present state the MS. covers the period from 6 Dec. to 17 Jan. Contents:- 1. (v. in margin). Life of St. Nicholas [by John the Deacon].. Beg. imperfectly "facundia (sic) loquacita...
Scope & Content:
Saint Hieronymus: Vita S. Pauli Primi Eremitae: 11th-12th cent. Saints: Lives of Saints for 6 Dec.-17 Jan.: 11th-12th cent.: Lat. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Passionale : initials and marginal figures: 11th-12th cent. includes: f. 1 Saint Nicholas,; of Myra: Vita: 11th-12th ce...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 item

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