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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74754
Title:: Psalter and Book of Hours, Use of Sarum 'The Small Bedford Hours'
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-72r: Mixed hours of the Virgin, of the Cross and of the Compassion, with suffrages after lauds, including St George, St Thomas Beckett (scratched out) and St Catherine; ff. 74r-81v: Seven Penitential Psalms; ff. 81v-88v: Gradual Psalms (Psalms 119-133); ff. 88v-127v: Office...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1423-1435
Extent:: A parchment codex, 396 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74756 A
Title:
Scope & Content:: THOMAS BECKWITH (1731-1786), F.S.A., HERALD PAINTER, OF YORK: ‘A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Families of Malebysse and Beckwith’; 1786, with later additions by other hands. Partly copies and printed. Partly Latin and Norman French. Paper: ff. ii+188. 480 mm x 340 mm. Binding ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1786
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74756 A-D
Title:: PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF BECKWITH OF CO. YORK., 1786, WITH RELATED PAPERS, 1773-2000. Partly copies and printed. Partly Latin and Norman French. Presented, with Add. Chs. 77046-77049, by Canon John Douglas Beckwith on behalf of Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, K.C.B., D.S.O., and the Trustees of the Royal Green Jackets Museum, Winchester, 9 May 2000. Four parts. As follows:-
Scope & Content:: Beckwith family; of Yorkshire: Pedigree and arms, with related papers: 1773-2000: Partly Latin and Norman French: Partly copies and printed.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, French, Old, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1773-2000
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74948
Title:: ARTHUR AGARD, AL. AGARDE, ANTIQUARY: Abstract of the Great Domesday; circa early 17th cent. Copy. Latin and Old English. Agard (1540-1615), a clerk in the Receipt of the Exchequer from 1570 and one of its two deputy chamberlains from 1603, had completed his abstracts of the Great and Lesser Domesdays by Mar. 1599. The present manuscript comprises (ff. 1-101) entries drawn from each of the thirty-one counties represented in Great Domesday, concluding with a selection of 'Clamores de Eurewicsc...
Scope & Content:: Arthur Agard, Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer: William I of England: Domesday Book: Thomas Jekyll, clerk of the papers in the King's Bench: Abstract of the Great Domesday by Arthur Agard, with additions by Thomas Jekyll: circa 1600-1625: Latin and Old English: Copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: c Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74949
Title:: ANONYMOUS COMMONPLACE-BOOK; circa but after 1637. Latin and English. Some five hundred and fifty topics of a miscellaneous nature are listed, under their Latin names and in strictly alphabetical order, in the prefatory index (ff. 1-5), and serially throughout the volume. Sporadic entries, added in a single unidentified contemporary hand, consist of sentences in English taken from printed sources, with page-references to the relevant editions, and are accompanied in the right-hand margin b...
Scope & Content:: Commonplace Books: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger; philosopher and statesman: Quotations from his De Beneficiis: circa 1637. Commonplace Books: Sir Edwin Sandys, statesman: Quotations from his Relation of the state of religion: circa 1637. Commonplace Books: Flavius Josephus: Quotations fr...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: after 1637
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74950
Title:
Scope & Content:: King's Bench cases; Hilary Term 1674-Trinity Term 1676. Copies wholly in Northey's hand, and prefaced (ff. 3-6) by an alphabetical index of cases. Law OF ENGLAND: Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General: Reports of cases in the King's Bench by Sir Edward Northey: 1674-1676: English, Latin and Law...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1674-1676
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74950-74951
Title:: SIR EDWARD NORTHEY, ATTORNEY GENERAL: Law reports in the King's Bench and Common Pleas; 1674-1683
Scope & Content:: English, Latin and Law French. Copies, mostly in the hand of Northey while a barrister at the Middle Temple. The first volume of the series is wanting. Two earlier sets of reports by Northey, 1661-1672, now Lincoln's Inn, MSS Hill 83-84, are described by J. H. Baker, English Legal Manuscripts...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1674-1683
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74951
Title:
Scope & Content:: Common Plea cases; Hilary Term 1677-Trinity Term 1683. Copies partly in scribal hands, with an alphabetical index of cases at the end. Several of the reports are noted as being transcribed 'ex relatione' of various younger contemporaries of Northey at the Temple, etc., notably B[ertie] Entwisle ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1677-1683
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75301-78155
Title:: Althorp Papers
Scope & Content:: Vols. i-mmdccclv. Family and political papers of the Spencer family of Althorp, co. Northant., with related papers acquired by inheritance; mostly 15th cent.-1910, with a few earlier and later items. The Spencer family rose to prominence in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire as wealthy graziers i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 15th century-1910
Extent:: 2855 items

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