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1. Add Ch 19789

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Add Ch 19789
Title:
Grant of Eanberht (fl. 757–759), Uhtred (fl. 757–777) and Ealdred (fl. 757–777), brothers and under-kings of the Hwicce, to Headda, abbot
Scope & Content:
Eanberht, Uhtred and Ealdred, brothers and under-kings of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa, king of Mercia, grant ten hides (cassati) at Andoversford, Gloucestershire, to Headda, abbot; dated February 759 (Sawyer, no. 56). Endorsed in a 10th-century hand, ‘to onnaforda’ and ‘Offa rex.’
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
759
Extent:

Parchment leaf

2. Add MS 36583

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Add MS 36583
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Scope & Content:
MISCELLANEOUS legal papers. Vol. I (ff. 247). includes: f. 1 Sir John Newdegate: Letter to R. Sheldon: 1606. f. 3 Ralph Sheldon: Petition to Queen Anne: 1623. f. 7 Wills of individuals, before A.D. 1700: Mrs. Valentine Grevill: 1644. f. 7 Mrs Valentine Grevill: Will: 1644. f. 12 b William Shel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-19th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 38132

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Add MS 38132
Title:
Fragments from John Leland's Collectanea
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–39v: Fragments from John Leland’s Collectanea. The manuscript seems to have become separated from the rest of the Collectanea at some point before the middle of the 17th century (see his Itinerary, ed. Lucy Toulmin Smith, 1907, i, p. xxx, ii, p. 117). More than half of it was copied by St...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1536-1545
Extent:
1 volume

4. Add MS 38133

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Add MS 38133
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Scope & Content:
COLLECTIONS, genealogical, legal, and historical. Sir Thomas Phillipps (see his Catal. Manuscriptorum under no. 3765, and Collectanea Topogr. et Geneal. vol. i, p. 20) regarded the collection as made by Robert Aske, whose name occurs several times. Internal evidence (see below, esp. art. 11) mak...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 50483K

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Add MS 50483K
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This leaf once belonged to one of the earliest known copies of the prose version of De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of Sherborne. This fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 leaf

6. Add MS 61608

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Add MS 61608
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Vol. DVIII (ff. 221). June 1708-June 1709. includes: f. 1 Benjamin Bynes, clergyman: Letter to Rev. - Jones: 1708.f. 3 Patrick Scott, prisoner in Newgate: Letters to Lord Sunderland: 1708.: Partly signed.ff. 5-8b Richard Bury, Mayor of Weymouth: Letter to Lord Sunderland: 1708.: Signed.f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Jun 1708-Jun 1709
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 61652

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Add MS 61652
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Scope & Content:
Vol. DLII (ff. iii+323). (1) Letter-book containing copies of Sunderland's letters as Secretary of State, relating to domestic affairs; 1706-1710. ff. 2-229. (2) Letter-book containing copies of Sunderland's letters as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 1714, 1715. See also Add. MSS. 61633-61640 ab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Portuguese
Date Range:
1706-1715
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 71687

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Add MS 71687
Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose), with added glosses in Old English
Scope & Content:
This bifolium once belonged to one of the earliest known surviving copies of the prose version of the De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 bifolium

9. Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 1–4

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Cotton MS Appendix LVI, ff 1–4
Title:
St Augustine of Hippo, De Doctrina Christiana (incomplete)
Scope & Content:
This part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI was part of the same medieval manuscript as Cotton MS Vespasian E IV, ff. 203-210 (see Watson, Savile (1969), pp. 48-49 (no. 158); Tite, The Early Records (2003), p. 230). Contents: ff. 1r-4v: St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), De Doctrina Christiana (O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Appendix LVI

10. Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff 4–17

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Cotton MS Claudius C IX, ff 4–17
Title:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle; annalistic chronicle, AD 1–1171
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 4r-12r: Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronicle. ff. 12v-17v: Annalistic chronicle, AD 1-438, 629-1178 (final entry 1171). Decoration: Medium initials in blue, green and red, some with pen-flourishing in a contrast colour (ff. 5r-5v only); 1 medium initial in ochre (f. 12v); small bl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Claudius C IX

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