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1811. Add MS 35311

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Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
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Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. This manuscript comprises the winter portion of the Breviary made for John the Fearless (b. 1371, d. 1419), Duke of Bavaria, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria (b. 1363, d. 1423). It originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1413-1419
Extent:
1 volume

1812. Add MS 35313

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Book of Hours, use of Rome (the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile')
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Book of Hours, known as the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile'. ff. 1v-7r: Calendar: the saints in red include, St Rémi (local spelling Remigy) and St Bavon (Bavonis) of Ghent (1 October), Donatian, Bishop of Reims [translated to Bruges] (14 October), and Eligius, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
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1813. Add MS 35315

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Title:
Book of Hours
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ROTHSCHILD BEQUEST. Vol. VI. Hours of the Virgin, etc., in Latin. Contents:-(1) Calendar, evidently Franciscan, having in blue the three feasts of St. Francis (4 Oct., 25 May, and Stigmata 17 Sept.), also Bernardino of Siena (17 and 20 May), Louis, Bishop of Toulouse (19 Aug.), and other Francis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
16th century
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Parchment codex

1814. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

1815. Add MS 35320

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Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
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This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

1816. Add MS 35324

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Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
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Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

1817. Add MS 35325

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TWO POLITICAL Tracts, in Latin, written in answer to Dante and for the Guelphic interest by Guido Vernanus of Rimini, a Dominican. Followed by excerpts from John of Salisbury and others. Contents:- "De reprobatione false monarchie": a confutation of Dante's tract De Monareliia. Dedicated to Gr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

1818. Add MS 35333

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ANTIQUARIAN MISCELLANIES of the 17th century, viz.: 1. Letter on Melancholy, addressed to Thomas Blomfield and signed M. N. f. 3. 2. "An Account of Religion by Reason," by Sir John Suckling. Printed in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). f. 11. 3. Two Latin speeches at Cambridge University Comit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1819. Add MS 35334

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ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS in Greek and Latin, copied by George Wheler (knighted 1682, afterwards in Holy Orders and Canon of Durham 1684-1723) in the course of travels in Greece, Asia Minor, etc., in company with Jacob Spon, a Lyons physician, in 1675 and 1676. The journey is described in Voyage d'It...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

1820. Add MS 35335

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ORIGINAL LETTERS, political verses and miscellaneous papers, chiefly relating to Sir Robert Walpole; circ. 1700-1783. From Horace Walpole's collections. Contents:- 1. Will of Thomas Walpole, of Little Walsingham, dat. 8 July, 1531, with probate 18 Oct. 1534. Copy (18th cent.). f. 2. 2. Lette...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1700-1783
Extent:
1 item

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