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1. Add MS 7138

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Title:
The Plegmund Narrative or Crediton Claim (with letters from Sir Walter Trevelyan and Henry Petrie)
Scope & Content:
Statement of Crediton’s claim to certain estates in Cornwall, giving an account of the purported creation of new bishops and their consecration in 905 (Winchester, Ramsbury, Sherborne, Wells, Crediton, Selsey and Dorchester), and statement of the assignment to Crediton, on that occasion, of land...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 10th century
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Parchment leaf bound with paper correspondence

2. Add MS 8166

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GILBERT CRISPIN: collection of works primarily of Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster (d. 1118); mid-late 12th cent. Latin. Origin: England. See Cat. Romances, ii, pp. 352-354; G. R. Evans, 'Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster: the forming of a monastic scholar', Studia Monastica, xxii (1980), pp. 63-81. Marginals in main hand of text: one marginal in a contemporary cursive (f. 4). Owned probably by Joseph Ames, antiquary (d. 1759), see signature f. 42v. Ames may have written the inscrip...
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Theology LATIN: Gilbert Crispin, abbot of Westminster: Works of Gilbert Crispin: 12th cent: Lat. includes: f. 3 Logic: Table of syllogistic forms: 12th cent: Lat. f. 3v Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Decorated initial: 12th cent. ff. 3-3v Dictionaries: Interpretation of names: 12th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 12th century-Late 12th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8167

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DICTAMINAL TREATISES: collection of dictaminal treatises, etc., formerly belonging to Westminster Abbey; early-mid 13th cent. Latin. Origin: England. See M. Camargo, 'The English manuscripts of Bernard of Meung's Flores Dictaminum', Viator, xii (1981), pp. 197-219. Acquired for Westminster Abbey by William de Hasele, who died as sub-prior before May 1283: see ex libris, f. 2, and H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, 'Early Coronation Records', BIHR, xiii (1935), p. 135. Hasele probably acquire...
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ENGLISH: Penwork initials: early 13th cent. Formularies: Collection of Dictaminal treatises, etc.,: 13th cent: Lat. includes: f. 2 Richard de Crokesle, abbot of Westminster: Record of death: 1258: Lat. f. 2 Jo- Bulkley: Signature: late 16th-early 17th cent. f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 13th century-Mid 13th century
Extent:
1 item