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1. Add MS 35286

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Add MS 35286
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-238v: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, imperfect, wanting many leaves. The Tales are arranged in the following order: ff. 1r-7v: The General Prologue, imperfect, wanting two leaves before and after f. 1 (A, ll. 1-153, 234-396). ff. 7v-28r: The Knight's Tale, imperfe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 36617

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Title:
Al-Zahrawi, Chirurgia d'Albucasis, in a Latin translation by Gerard of Cremona; Arabic-Latin glossary of medical terms
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated Latin translation of the Chirurgia d'Albucasis, a treatise on surgery by the Arabic physician and surgeon Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (b. 936, d. 1013), commonly known as 'al-Zahrawi'. The treatise represents the 30th and final...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 39810

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Title:
PSALTER, etc., in Latin, known as the Psalter of the St. Omer family. Contents:- (1) Calendar. f. 1 ;- (2) Psalter, Gallican version. f. 7 ;- (3) Canticles. " Audite, celi " wants Deut. xxxii, 25-38, through loss of one leaf after f. 162, and " Quicumque vult " is imperfect through loss of a leaf after f. 166. f. 156 ;- (4) Litany. f. 167. The Calendar (15th cent., in blue, red, and black) is of Sarum use. Entries include St. Anne (26 July), SS. David. Chad (1, 2 March), and Winifred (3 Nov....
Scope & Content:
Henry Yates Thompson, manuscript collector: Bookplates. St. Omer family; of Mulbarton, Norfolk: Psalter begun for member of: circ. 1325; completed 15th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Psalter of the St. Omer family of Mulbarton, co. Norf.: circ. 1325, and 15th cent. Nicolas Denis Derome le jeune: Bind...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th and Early 15th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 45557

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Title:
MORALISING WORKS, in Latin, viz.:- (1) Disticha Catonis. Book I (without prologue) and four lines of Book II, including the line 'humanos si forte velis depellere morbos', for which see Marcus Boas, Disticha Catonis, Amsterdam, 1952, pp. 91-92. The text appears to belong to the Traditio Vulgata recentior of Boas (op. cit., pp. lx-lxii), and resembles that of MS. V in his apparatus. Interlinear glosses in Latin and English. ff. 2-4. (2) Gesta Romanorum. Forty-three chapters from the branc...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Limp vellum: 15th cent. includes: f. iv Bookplates and Book-stamps: Ashburnham Appendix CCXLVI: affixed 1897.ff. 2-4 Dionysius Cato: Disticha Catonis: 15th cent.: Lat.: Imperf.ff. 5-80b Romances: Gesta Romanorum: 15th cent.: Lat.ff. 81-84b Sermons: On Job xvii. 1, and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half 15th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 70848

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Scope & Content:
MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Vol. X (ff. 122). Correspondence of Directors and Principal Librarians; 1849-1939, n.d. English and Latin. Contents: 1. ff. 1-88. John Winter Jones, Keeper of Printed Books 1856-1866, Principal Librarian 1866-1878; 1849-1878, n.d. A few of the letters are addressed to J...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1849-1939
Extent:
1 item

6. Stowe MS 17

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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

7. Stowe MS 84

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Stowe MS 84
Title:
Proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains one of only three official copies made of the Processus justificationis Johanne D'Arc, or proceedings of the rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (b. c. 1412, d. 1431). Joan had been put on trial before a Church court headed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon (b. 1371, d. 1442), an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1455-1456
Extent:
1 volume

8. Stowe MS 170

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Stowe MS 170
Title:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes, Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (d. 1639), diplomat: Vol. 5: 28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609. Edmondes was in this period Ambassador to the Spanish Netherlands, to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, at Brussels. The great majority of the letters here are originals, with some drafts by Edmondes, usually ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
28 Mar 1608-23 Mar 1609
Extent:
1 volume

9. Stowe MS 776

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Stowe MS 776
Title:
Cartulary of the estates of John de Vaux and his daughter and co-heiress Petronilla de Narford
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a cartulary, containing copies of charters and deeds in Latin, relating to the estates of the English nobleman Sir John de Vaux, alias Vallibus (b. c. 1220, d. 1287), in Norfolk and Suffolk, and particularly the inheritance of his daughter and coheiress Pernel, also known as P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

10. Stowe MS 944

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Stowe MS 944
Title:
Liber vitae ('The New Minster Liber Vitae')
Scope & Content:
The core of this volume is a Liber vitae consisting of lists of names of brethren and benefactors of the New Minster, Winchester, recorded for commendation to God during daily mass, combined originally with a Gospel Lectionary, and supplemented with several historical texts. Contents: ff. 1r-5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1031-1771
Extent:

1 volume