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Exemplification of a Common Recovery by German Dixson, gentleman, of the fourth part of the manor of Bircher alias Birchover, co. Derby, and of a messuage and lands in Birchover and in Stanton, co. Derby, against William Walton, gentleman, wherein Adam Eyre was voucher. Dated Westminster, co. Mi...
Royal Writ with permission for Thomas Eyre, of Rowton, co. Derby, esquire, to hold a weekly Saturday market and 4 fairs, namely on the 23 June, 17 October, 28 November and 20 April, with a court of Pie-Powder at each fair, annually, in the town of Winster, co. Derby, following an inquisition hel...
Royal Writ with permission for Thomas Eyre, of Rowton, co. Derby, esquire, to hold a weekly Saturday market and 4 fairs, namely on the 23 June, 17 October, 28 November and 20 April, with a court of Pie-Powder at each fair, annually, in the town of Winster, co. Derby, following an inquisition hel...
Exemplification of an inspeximus of a Chancery Decree, made 7 November, 21 James I [1623], in a suit between John Gell of Hopton, co. Derby, esquire, and Richard Tofte, John Lowe, Edward Valence and Ralph James, defendants, concerning the third part of the tithes of lead ore in Bakewell, Tideswe...
Bible, with prologues and the Interpretation of Hebrew Names ('The Fécamp Bible')
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Contents: f. ii recto: Partial index of readings, added in the 13th century. ff. 1r-4v: Jerome’s preface to the Vulgate. ff. 4v-524v: Bible. ff. 525r-572v: Interpretationes Hebraicorum nominum (Interpretations of Hebrew Names), an alphabetical list of Hebrew names found in the Bible, with a ...
This manuscript is a collectar, a liturgical book containing the collects used in the Divine Offices. The volume is known as the 'Ottobeuren Collectar', after the Benedictine abbey of St Alexander and Theodor, in Ottobeuren, Germany, where it was probably commissioned or made by a monk called Re...
Book of Hours, use of Rome, known as the 'The Dunois Hours', including: ff. 1r-12r: Calendar, use of Paris. ff. 13r-22r: Excerpts from the Four Gospels. ff. 22v-32r: Two prayers to the Virgin, 'Obsecro te' (ff. 22v-27r) and 'O intemerata' (ff. 27r-32r). ff. 32v-35r: Prayer 'Deus propicius.'...
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Jacques de Brégilles')
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Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including a calendar (ff. 1r-12v), and with later notes on the family of Jacques de Brégilles, French (ff. 194r-v), an added prayer to the Virgin Mary in French, 16th c (ff. 204r-209v), and a 16th c French verse (f. 210r). ff. 41v, 178v, 186v-186*v are blank. Decora...
Contents: f. [iii] recto: Notes on the purchase of the manuscript from Jean-Bénigne Lucotte, seigneur du Tilliot. ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. ff. 7r-v: Suffrage to the Trinity (using masculine forms). ff. 9r-12v: Gospel extracts. ff. 13r-19v: Passion narrative (John 18:1-19:42) and a prayer ff....
Book of Hours, Use of Rome, including calendar (ff. 1r-12v). Decoration: The decoration of the opening page of the manuscript has been attributed to Niccola Rapicano, and the remaining decoration to Cristoforo Majorana (see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts (1969), p. 78 n. 1). 4...
