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5691. Add MS 89139

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Add MS 89139
Title:
LAURENCE MAYES: ‘Dialectica, sive epitome totius Artis Logicae’, dictates on logic delivered by the Rev. Laurence Mayes (b. 1673, d. 1749), professor of philosophy and poetry at the English College at Douai.
Scope & Content:
Transcribed by Sir George Jerningham (b. 1680, d. 1774), who has signed the manuscript in several places, with the date 20 August 1698. The manuscript forms a companion volume to Add MS 61916, a second volume of Jerningham’s notes on Mayes’s lectures, transcribed in 1699. It includes several diag...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1698
Extent:
Octavo. 178 x 118 mm.

5692. Add MS 89144

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Add MS 89144
Title:
Miniature prayer-book
Scope & Content:
This late sixteenth-century or early seventeenth-century miniature prayer-book contains a collection of more than a hundred prayers compiled from various contemporary and medieval devotional works. The book was intended for personal prayer, perhaps specifically to prepare for communion before or...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1565-1609
Extent:
Parchment codex

5693. Add MS 89166

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Add MS 89166
Title:
Grant of arms of Sir Gilbert Dethick (d. 1584) to Jean Belmaine
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. c. 1510, d. 1584), Garter Principal King of Arms, to Jean Belmaine (fl. 1546–1559), French tutor to King Edward VI (r. 1547–1553) and Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603), dated 20 November 1552. The blazon of Belmaine's Arms is a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
20 Nov 1552
Extent:

1 leaf

5694. Add MS 89168

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Add MS 89168
Title:
Cartulary of Combermere Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–9v: Register of the lands and tenements of Combermere Abbey, containing copies of 42 leases and indentures from the 13th to 16th centuries: ‘Registerium Omnium et singularum terrarum et tenementum ad monasterium de Cambirmere pertinentum in Wico malbano Jacentum, et per Indenturas ad term...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1529
Extent:

1 volume

5695. Add MS 89169

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Add MS 89169
Title:
Cartulary of Burton Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–5r: Table of contents to the cartulary, with folio references. ff. 6r–7v: Table of contents arranged by issuer. ff. 8r–74v: The earliest section of the cartulary, created c.1230–41 with 13th- to 15th-century additions, arranged partially by the status of grantors (foundation and royal; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 13th century-15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

5696. Add MS 89250

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Add MS 89250
Title:
The Mostyn Psalter-Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-8v: Additions made in the late fifteenth century. f. 1r: Instruction for making the sign of the cross with a prayer, '[rubric:] Mane cum surrexeris signum cruces orationi imprimendo dices [prayer:] [H]unc labia mea aperies [etc.]'. ff. 1r-1v: Prayers to God the Father, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1275 - c 1325
Extent:
Parchment codex

5697. Add MS 89252

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Add MS 89252
Title:
Spiritual notebook of William Jemmat
Scope & Content:
Spiritual notebook of William Jemmat (d. 1678), signed on the front page with ‘William Jemmat his booke’. There are existing editions of William Jemmat’s printed works and work he edited held in the British Library, but this is the only extant manuscript of his. Begins with an exposition of vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1615
Extent:
1 volume

5698. Add MS 89264

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Add MS 89264
Title:
Two letters from Queen Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, to Charles, future Holy Roman Emperor, 1708, and to Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1710, with accompanying documents
Scope & Content:
1. Letter from Queen Anne to Charles, styled King Charles III of Spain, future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. Windsor, 20 September 1708. 1 bifolium. French. Anne writes on the occasion of the return of James Craggs junior as resident with Charles, to congratulate him on the arrival of the ne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1708-c 1938
Extent:

1 file

5699. Add MS 89287

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Add MS 89287
Title:
Correspondence and papers of Frances, Countess Waldegrave and Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford
Scope & Content:
A collection of correspondence and papers of Frances Elizabeth Anne Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave, and Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1806-1934
Extent:

232 files

5700. Add MS 89287/2

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Add MS 89287/2
Title:
Correspondence and papers of Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford
Scope & Content:
Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue was born in 1823. The Fortescues were a prominent Anglo-Irish family, with many of the family taking prominent roles in Irish political life. He took the name Parkinson after inheriting from his Aunt, Anna Maria Parkinson-Ruxton’s husband, William Parkinson-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1806-1934
Extent:

113 files

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