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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49605
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. i+145). 1578-1691. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, 7th Baronet; d.1821: Armorial bookplates of Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart.: circa 1798-1821.f. 1 Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State: Letter to: 1578.f. 1 Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin: Letter ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1578-1691
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49606
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. i+250). 1729-1773. General Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, 6th Baronet: Correspondence and papers: 1753-1780: Partly copies. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, 7th Baronet; d.1821: Armorial bookplates of Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart.: circa 1798-1821.ff. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1729-1773
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49648
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XI (ff. 161). 1885. includes: f. 1 Hermann Heinrich Ploss, German anthropologist: Letter to Sir J. Lubbock: 1885: Germ.ff. 3, 6, 12, 19, 24, 118, 146, 148 Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith: Letters to Lord Avebury,: 1883-1907.f. 5 Sir James Thomas Knowles, KCVO; Editor...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1885
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49673
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXXVI (ff. 224). 1905. includes: f. 1 Sir Horatio Brevitt, Town Clerk of Wolverhampton: Letters to Lord Avebury: 1904, 1905: Partly signed.f. 5 Edward Granville Browne, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University: Letter to Lord Avebury: 1905.f. 7 Henry William Forster, Baron Forste...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, and Latin
Date Range:: 1905
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49681 A
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Scope & Content:: AVEBURY PAPERS. Vol. XLIV A (ff. 219). 1. ff. 1-112. A Contribution to our Knowledge of Seedlings, 1892; 1892-1904, n.d. 2. ff. 113-173. On Buds and Stipules, 1899; 1899, n.d. 3. ff. 174-219. Notes on the Life History of British Flowering Plants, 1905; 1905-1906, n.d. includes: f. 209 Ed...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1892-1906
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 49999
Title:: Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
Scope & Content:: Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1240
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50000
Title:: Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
Scope & Content:: Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:: c 1265-1270
Extent:: Parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50001
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1415
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50002
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Mirandola Hours')
Scope & Content:: This lavishly illuminated Book of Hours was probably produced for Galeotto Pico della Mirandola, Prince of Mirandola and Count of Concordia (d. 1499) and his wife, Bianca d'Este (as evidenced by their arms, painted into the border decoration on f. 13r), probably in Northern Italy in the decade b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: c 1490-1499
Extent:: A parchment codex.

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 50004
Title:: Book of Hours
Scope & Content:: Contents: A Book of Hours from Spain, consisting of: ff. 1r-63v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome; ff. 65r-69v: Memorials of Saints Christopher, Bernadino of Siena (canonised 1450), Anthony of Padua and Francis. ff. 71r-87r: Prayers: ff. 71r-73v: 'Obsecro te domina sancta maria' (Leroqu...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: Parchment codex

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