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1. Add MS 4157

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Add MS 4157
Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1655-1657
Scope & Content:
The documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intelligence s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1655-1657
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 29250

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', with incunables printed by Peter Liechenstein and Johann Trechsel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The treatise has been bound together with some late 15th-century incunables: Ephemerides sive Almanack perpetuus by the Castilian astronomer and historian Abraham Za...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

3. Add MS 35840

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Title:
Roger Ascham's letterbook
Scope & Content:
The letterbook of Roger Ascham as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary I (1553–1558). Volume CCCCXCII of the Hardwicke Papers. It contains copies of letters in Latin from Mary to foreign sovereigns, princes and others, 1554–1558, and is largely holograph. Royal MS 13 B I is the continuation of Ascham’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1558
Extent:
1 volume

4. Stowe MS 166

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Stowe MS 166
Title:
Papers of Thomas Edmondes, Agent at the French Court, 1592-1596 and n.d., volume 1
Scope & Content:
Edmonde Papers, vol. 1, 18 June 1592-16 May 1596. This volume includes letters from William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Sir Robert Cecil and Sir John Norris, commander in Brittany, to Thomas Edmondes. Much of this volume comprises drafts (described on the endorsements as copies or minutes) of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1592-1601
Extent:
1 volume

5. Stowe MS 170

Reference (shelfmark):
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

6. Yates Thompson MS 50

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Yates Thompson MS 50
Title:
Aristophanes, with hypotheses, marginal scholia and interlinear glosses
Scope & Content:
Aristophanes, Plutus (TLG 0019.029), ff 2r-76v, with interlinear glosses partly in Latin, followed by Nubes (TLG 0019.021), ff 77r-171r, and preceded by Vita Thomana 1 (TLG 4158.009), ff 1r-v.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume