Lycophron, Alexandra. Greek and Latin text with extensive notes prepared for publication by Ambrose Fisher (B.A. Cantab. 1597-8; d.1617). Preceded by (f. 1) a letter of dedication.
Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium
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Sicco Polentone, Epitome in vitas scriptorum illustrium: ff. 1r-3r: Preface, rubric: 'SICCONIS POLENTONI EPITHOMA IN SCRIPTORUM ILLUSTRIUM LATINAE LINGUAE LIBER PRIMUS INCIPIT AD FILIUM POLIDORUM FELICITER IN VITAS ILLUSTRIUM VIRORUM PREHEMIUM LIBRI SEQUENTIS'; incipit: 'Peofitetur mi Polidore ...
The first part of the ‘Montpellier Bible’, containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi
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This is the first of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Genesis to the Book of Malachi. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the location o...
The second part of the 'Montpellier Bible', containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation
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This is the second of two volumes of one of the nine extant copies of the Languedocian recension of the Latin Vulgate (see Berger, Histoire de la Vulgate (1893), pp. 72-88), containing the Book of Proverbs to the Book of Revelation. This Bible is known as the ‘Montpellier Bible', after the locat...
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
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This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
This manuscript contains land surveys and letters patent relating to Wales. Other copies of these materials can be found in Harley MS 696. Although '1565' is inscribed in an initial on f. 53v, this date may only apply to ff. 1*recto-2*recto, and ff. 41r-54r. While the texts on ff. 129v-131v we...
Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480
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Contents: ff. 1r-59v: Wardrobe accounts of King Edward IV from 18 April to 29 September 1480, beginning: 'The Parcelles of the Accomptes of Peers Courteys whome the kinges highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his grete warder...
Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
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Contents: ff. 1r-196v: Account of the household expenses of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury (b. c. 1522, d. 1590), at Handsworth, 21 December 1588-6 March 1590. The manuscript contains an addition: ff. 1*recto-1*verso, 197r-197v originally formed a single parchment leaf from a late 12th...
ff. 1r–21v: Transcriptions from a rental created in 1451 (f. 1r), when John Hammond was prior. Includes rentals and court-rolls concerning rents of assize and farm rents in Tandridge. ff. 22r–38v: Copies of documents relating to Tandridge Hall and manors in Surrey, to the time of James I.