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5341. Add MS 71117-71119

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Title:
The Violeta Harris Collection of cuttings from illuminated manuscripts
Scope & Content:
The Violeta Harris Collection consisting of 3 boxes of cuttings from illuminated manuscripts: Add MS 71117 A-J: Ten cuttings from a Book of Hours; Add MS 71118 A-F: Six leaves from a Book of Hours; Add MS 71119 A-K: Seventeen cuttings from various manuscripts;
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-15th century
Extent:
3 boxes of parchment leaves, mounted separately

5342. Add MS 71118 B

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, St Margaret
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a miniature of St Margaret on the recto. The verso is blank. Decoration: A full-page miniature in colours on a gold ground in a frame with foliate decoration (recto). The verso is blank with an added two line verse in Latin, beginning, 'Dum filiu' dil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

5343. Add MS 71118 C

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, with part of the Office of Matins
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the the beginning of the Office of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(omine), of the Annunciation in colours on a gold ground, with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

5344. Add MS 71118 D

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of Lauds
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the the beginning of the Office of Lauds. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(eus), of Christ's Betrayal and Arrest, in colours on a gold ground, with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold and purple (recto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

5345. Add MS 71118 E

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours with part of the Office of the Dead
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with the beginning of Vespers in the Office of the Dead. Decoration: A historiated initial, 'D'(ilexi), of a funeral with clerics singing, in colours on a gold ground with a full decorated border (recto) and decorated initials in red and blue or gold and p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

5346. Add MS 71118 F

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead and the beginning of Psalm 118
Scope & Content:
Contents: A folio from a Book of Hours with a prayer for the Dead (recto) and Psalm 118: 1-15 (recto and verso). Decoration: A historiated initial, 'B'(eati) of the soul of a woman lifted to heaven from the tomb by two angels, in colours on a gold ground with a full decorated border (recto) and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:

A parchment folio

5347. Add MS 71159

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Title:
ISAAC WATTS THE ELDER: copybook of commercial exercises; 1664. Containing mathematical exercises in European currencies, in weights and measures for various commodities, and other commercial matters, including merchants' partnerships and barter and exchange, many relating to the clothing trade. Signed and dated on f. 37v: 'Isaac Watts 1664'. Watts, father of the hymnist, was a clothier and proprietor of a boarding-school in Southampton, and died in 1737 at the age of 85 (DNB); the present ex...
Scope & Content:
Education: Trade and Commerce: Isaac Watts, father of the hymnist: Nonconformists: Copybook of commercial exercises by Isaac Watts: 1664: Partly Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1664
Extent:
1 item

5348. Add MS 71164

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Add MS 71164
Title:
WILLIAM HOLWAY: Poems and verse-translations, in English and Latin, etc.; circa 1633-1657. Mostly autograph fair-copies. Holway, who was born in Dorset in 1614, matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1632 and took the M.A. in 1637, serving as Vicar of Milton Abbas from circa 1650-1657. The thirty-eight pieces of his own composition preserved here are signed either with his initials or with 'Holw:' or 'Holway'. They are arranged apparently in chronological order, beginning with an elegy ...
Scope & Content:
William Holway, alias Holloway; Rector of Milton Abbas: Poems and verse-translations, etc.,: circa 1633-1657: Partly Lat.: Autogr. includes: ff. 12-13 William Cartwright, poet and playwright: Transl. of his verses `On the great Frost. 1634', by Rev. W. Holway: circa 1635: Lat.f. 13v Willia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1633-1657
Extent:
1 item

5349. Add MS 71171

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Title:
STEPNEY LETTERS: letters, etc., mostly addressed to George Stepney (b.1663, d.1707), envoy to various German courts; 1691-1706. Partly French and Latin. Chiefly from diplomatic representatives and other officials, whose letters also appear in Stepney's main archive cited below, but including (f. 4) one letter of domestic news from Andrew Newport, M.P., to his nephew, Richard Newport, 1693, a stray from the sequence of letters in Add. 7080. Supplementing Add. 7058-7080, 21551 and 37155-37156....
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol and (1713) of London: Letter to G. Stepney from John Robinson: 1691.ff. 1-36v George Stepney, diplomatist: Letters to George Stepney: 1691-1706.f. 3 Sir Paul Rycaut, diplomatist: Letter to G. Stepney from Sir Paul Rycaut: 1692.f. 4 Andrew Newport,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1691-1706
Extent:
1 item

5350. Add MS 71177

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Add MS 71177
Title:
MEDICAL TREATISE: version in French of part of a treatise on medical care, supposedly addressed to Caesar and attributed to Hippocrates; 2nd half of 13th cent. Written in England. Presented by Christopher Walker, Esq., Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities, British Museum, July 1993.
Scope & Content:
Prayers and Devotions: Hippocrates: Medicine and Surgery: Treatise, supposedly addressed to Caesar and attributed to Hippocrates, together with some prayers etc.,: 1220-1240: Fr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 item

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