Collection of records and papers relating to Ireland, dating from between 1558 and 1580. This is the first of two volumes. ff. 1r-2v: Contents list. ff. 3r-4v: Collection of items concerning instructions for Thomas Radclyffe, third Earl of Sussex and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By Sir William ...
Gerald of Wales, De principis instructione (160r–161r: excerpts); Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, AD 1056–1270 (161r–168r: excerpts); ‘Barnwell Chronicle’ (168v–170r: excerpts); list of the bishops of Winchester to Stephen Gardiner (1531–1551) (171r–v)
Leaf of the Breviary of Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy (d. 1503), by the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy, dating from c. 1475-1480. Incorporated is a mounted papyrus fragment of Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in Evangelia (TM 66296), dating from the last quarter of the 6th century or the...