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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3760
Title:: Cistercian Gospel Lectionary
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript from France contains Gospel readings (lections) for the moveable liturgical feasts for events related to Easter (Temporale) and the immovable liturgical feasts for Christmas and the saints (Sanctorale). Its original contents and additions suggest that the manuscript ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3763
Title:: Prayer book (The 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan')
Scope & Content:: This small manuscript was likely made for Arnulf II (d. 1018), archbishop of Milan between 998 and 1018, since the name, ‘Arnulfe’, is the only one written in capitals in the Litany of the Saints (f. 128v). This is also suggested by the inclusion of the Milanese martyr St Victor (in a prayer and...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 0998-1018
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3772
Title:: THE BRUTON CHARTULARY Chartulary of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton, co. Som. (f. circa 1142; abbey, 1511), topographically arranged; bef. 1294 (f. 95b)-aft. 1408 (f. 131). Latin. Imperfect, by the loss of the first 72 folios, the contents of which have been supplied (ff. 1-76b) by copies made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., circa 1840, of Phillipps MS. 4808, abstracts made when the chartulary was still complete by the Rev. George Harbin, 1719. See ff. iii-x. Sewn in as f. 106* is an inden...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ENGLISH: Oak boards, covered with white skin,: 14th-15th cent. Bruton, Somerset: Chartulary of Augustinian Priory,: bef. 1294-aft. 1408: Lat. Chartularies: Bruton Priory,: bef. 1294-aft. 1408: Lat. includes: f. ix Thomas Bond, of the Inner Temple: Letter to Lord Ilchester,: 1841.f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1260-1499
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3775
Title:: St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
Scope & Content:: This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3776
Title:: St Jerome, Commentaries on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains the first six books of St Jerome's (b. 347, d. 420) commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Ezekiel. It was produced in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds; it is particularly in this period, during th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3781
Title:: Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:: This item comprises a single parchment leaf from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the tim...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1330-1340
Extent:: 1 parchment leaf, kept in an album.

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3784-3785
Title:: WODHULL CATALOGUES: catalogues of the library of Michael Wodhull, book collector and translator (b.1740, d.1816); 1817, n.d. Partly Latin Ownership inscriptions of William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg of Hinton Blewitt, 29 Sept. 1958: Eg. 3784, f. ; Eg. 3785, f. . Purchased from Peter Murray Hill (Rare Books) Ltd., 9 March 1971.
Scope & Content:: Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Michael Wodhull, translator of Euripides: Thenford, Northamptonshire: Catalogues of library of Michael Wodhull at Thenford: 1817, n.d.: Lat. and Eng.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1817
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3788
Title:: LIBER PACIS FOR 1590: list, produced in the Crown Office, of commissioners of the peace in order of precedence for every county in England and Wales (excepting Lancashire); 1590. This is apparently the only extant Liber Pacis for 1590, and provides the only complete record of which people served as justices of the peace during that year. There are notations indicating members of the quorum, the custodes rotulorum and sheriffs for the year. At the end (f. 49) is a list of the judicial circuit...
Scope & Content:: Law OF ENGLAND: Elizabeth I of England: Crown Office: Liber Pacis: 1590: Lat. and Eng.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1590
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3789-3795
Title:: WREST PARK MANUSCRIPTS: miscellaneous manuscripts, chiefly genealogical and heraldic, from the manuscript collections of the Grey and Lucas families formerly preserved at Wrest Park, co. Bedf., which were calendared in the 2nd Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (1870), Appendix, pp. 4-9. The majority of the Wrest Park MSS. were acquired from the collections of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (sale-catalogue, 21 Nov. 1687, Heraldry section, pp. 91-92: Department of Printed Books pre...
Scope & Content:: Wrest Park, Bedfordshire: Manuscripts from the library at: 17th cent.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [1500-1799]
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 3800
Title:: MARY TUDOR'S MARRIAGE: contemporary transcript of documents rel. to the marriage of Mary Tudor to Louis XII of France; 1514. Phillipps MS. 10824; Sotheby's sale cat. 15 June 1908, lot 365; Max and Maurice Rosenheim Library (bookplate); purchased of Robin Waterfield Ltd, August 1978. Vellum; ff. iv+22. 324 x 238 (230 x 168)mm. 25 lines. Penwork initials and coloured armorial bearings of Mary as Queen of France. Blind-stamped leather binding.
Scope & Content:: Bindings FRENCH: Blind-stamped brown leather: 18th cent?. Louis XII of France: Henry VIII of England: Art. Illuminations and Drawings FRENCH: Documents, with penwork initials and coloured armorial bearings, rel. to the marriage of Louis XII and Mary Tudor: 1514: Lat. and Fr.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1514
Extent:: 1 item

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