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2. Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ms 1-1085
- Title:
- Stowe Manuscripts
- Scope & Content:
- Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Old, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Modern, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Scots, Spanish, and Welsh
- Date Range:
- c 1000-c 1800
- Extent:
- 1085 items
3. Stowe MS 2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 2
- Title:
- Psalter with gloss in Old English
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains a decorated Gallican Psalter and Canticles (ff. 168v-180v), made in England in the mid-11th century. The Psalter was glossed in Old English in the second half of the 11th century. This Psalter might be related to fragments/binding strips of a glossed Psalter in Cambrid...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
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1 volume
4. Stowe MS 3
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 3
- Title:
- The Four Gospels; a Lectionary
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Four Gospels with prologues and tables of contents, followed by a lectionary in which readings from the Gospels are divided over the liturgical year. The manuscript has, on stylistic grounds, been identified as a product of the Benedictine abbey of St Remaclus in Sta...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient and Latin
- Date Range:
- 10th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
5. Stowe MS 4
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 4
- Title:
- Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Chronica de tribus maximis circumstantiis gestorum
- Scope & Content:
- This manuscript contains the Historia Scholastica (Scholastic History) by the theologian Petrus Comestor (d. 1187). The Historia offers a retelling of the Old and New Testaments and was a popular work in the later Middle Ages. It also includes excerpts from the Chronica de tribus maximis circums...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
6. Stowe MS 9
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 9
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- CONCORDANCE, or Harmony of the Gospels, in Latin, the four narratives being combined into one by selection of passages from each. Begins with John i. 1, "In principio erat Verbum," and ends with the last words of the same Gospel, " qui scribendi sunt libros,"followed by the colophon,"Explicit sa...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 15th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Stowe MS 12
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 12
- Title:
- Breviary ('Stowe Breviary')
- Scope & Content:
- Breviary of Sarum use adapted to Norwich. The contents are: f. 1r-154v, Temporale. Imperfect at the beginning, apparently a whole quire being lost. The first page begins near the end of the rubrics for the first week in Advent, followed by 'Feria ii'. f. 155r-156v, Brief notes of English his...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1322-1325 and c 1350-1380
- Extent:
- 1 volume
8. Stowe MS 17
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 17
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours')
- Scope & Content:
- Book of Hours, Use of Maastricht ('The Maastricht Hours'). 1. (ff. 2v-13r): Calendar, in French. Incipit (f. 2v): 'KL Ienvirs at xxxi iors / li circoncicio notre saingnur'. 2. (ff. 18r-139r): Office of the Virgin. Incipit (f. 18r): 'Domine labia mea aperies'. 3. (ff. 140r-157r): Penitentia...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 14th century
- Extent:
-
1 volume
9. Stowe MS 30
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 30
- Title:
- Prayer book presented to Queen Elizabeth I
- Scope & Content:
- Illustrated prayer book, in various languages, dated 1578 and presented to Queen Elizabeth I for New Year. Written in inks of various colours, with illuminated titles and initials. Possibly presented by William Absolon (Lawson, ‘This Remembrance of the New Year’, p. 143). Previously also associ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1578
- Extent:
- 1 volume
10. Stowe MS 31
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe MS 31
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- EPISTLES of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Anselm, viz.: — 1. "Epistola Anselmi arehiepiscopi ad papam"; Anselm's letter to Pope Paschal II., asking for a clearer declaration of his opinion on Investitures (Migne, Patrologia, vol. clix. col. 110, Ep. iii. 73). Begins (after the salutation), ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, English, Old, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 item