The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer
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Contents: ff. 1r-30r: The process against the Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, copied from the original and attested by William Whyte, with his notary signature (ff. 29r-30r).
Contents: ff. 8r-199v: Registrum Brevium for the reign of King Richard II, beginning with a table of contents (ff. 8r-9v), entitled: 'Calendar brevium realium'. The manuscript contains various additions: f. 1v: Memorandum of Robert de la Mare, Lord of Llangennith in the Gower, Swansea, Sout...
Contents: ff. 1r-221v: Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea; with a table of contents on ff. 1r-2r; featuring some 15th-century marginal annotations in Latin. The manuscript contains several additions: ff. 222r-222v: Notes on canon law [including the subjects of cemeteries and burials], beginn...
Contents: ff. 1r-41r: Boniface VIII, Liber Sextus Decretalium. Decoration: Large puzzle initial in red and blue with pen-flourishing in the same colours including foliate motifs extending into the margins to form a partial border (f. 1r). Initials in red or blue with pen-flourishing in the o...
This manuscript contains a copy of the Speculum historiale (Mirror of History), written by the Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (b. c. 1184/1194, d. c. 1264). The work is a history of the world from Creation to Vincent's own lifetime. Contents: ff. 1r-285r: Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum h...
Collection of alchemical works, including De compositione alchemiae; John Sawtry, De occulta philosophia; and Richardus de Salopia, De proportione elementorum
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A composite manuscript containing works on alchemy, comprising three parts that were produced separately but joined together shortly afterwards, as indicated by a 15th-century table of contents for the whole manuscript on f. 1v. Part 1: ff. 1-24; Part 2: ff. 25-40; Part 3: ff. 41-97. Contents:...
Collection of constitutions of the archbishops of Canterbury from Stephen Langton to John Stafford; alphabetical index to English synods
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Contents: ff. 1r-13v: 'Constituciones provinciales Provincie Cantuariensis edite per dominum Stephanum Archiepiscoum Cantuariensis apud Oxonie Anno domini M CC xxij'. ff. 13v-31r: 'Constituciones Bonifacij quondam Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis [...] edite anno domini M CC lx' ('Bonifacius apud ...
Contents: ff. 1r-135r: Peter of Blois, Epistolarum collectio. The manuscript contains several later additions: ff. 111v-112v: An index of theological subjects added by an early 16th-century hand that also made marginal annotations throughout the manuscript. ff. 113r-116v: A (?) list of cont...
This manuscript contains a survey of the Honor of Windsor that was made by the cartographer John Norden (b. c. 1547, d. 1625) for King James I in 1607. The manuscript contains 17 maps that are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, ...