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1. Lansdowne MS 1-1245

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 1-1245
Title:
Lansdowne Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne (d 1805). Includes papers of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1200 -c 1700
Extent:
1245 manuscripts

2. Lansdowne MS 348

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 348
Title:
Prick of Conscience
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains: f. 1r: Notes extracted from Albertus Magnus. Beginning: 'vernena est herba'. Ending: 'et tota domus apperebit plena vestriis'. f. 2r-127v: Prick of Conscience (Main Version IMEV 3428). Beginning: 'Þe myght' of þe fader all' mighti'. Ending: 'Þat for oure loue on Rode c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

3. Lansdowne MS 381

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 381
Title:
Psalter fragment ('Psalter of Henry the Lion') and Breviary fragment
Scope & Content:
Two volumes, now kept separately (please consult each individual record for full catalogue information): Lansdowne MS 381/1: ff. 1-11, Psalter ('Psalter of Henry the Lion'); Lansdowne MS 381/2: ff. 12-67, Breviary fragment, with prayers and meditations in English.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
10th century-15th century
Extent:
A parchment codex in two volumes, kept separately

4. Lansdowne MS 381/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 381/2
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This fifteenth-century Breviary for the Use of Sarum is incomplete, comprising 67 folios, along with prayers in English and French. Lansdowne 381/1 is a separate volume consisting of eleven leaves from a Psalter created for Henry the Lion in the late twelfth century ('The Psalter of Henry the Lio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex.

5. Lansdowne MS 436

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 436
Title:
Chronicle and British saints’ lives
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

6. Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 436, ff 6-131
Title:
The ‘Romsey Legendary’
Scope & Content:
A collection of British saints’ lives: ff. 6r–9v: Augustine of Canterbury (begins imperfectly). ff. 9v–11v: Laurentius of Canterbury. ff. 11v–14r: Mellitus of Canterbury. ff. 14r–16v: Paulinus of York. ff. 16v–19v: Oswald of Northumbria. ff. 19v–21v: Aidan of Lindisfarne. ff. 21v–23v: Cha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Lansdowne MS 462

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 462
Title:
A gradual or antiphonary for the use of Sarum, with the music, being a volume of the same size, and written on vellum in the fourteenth century. Some of its margins are handsomely painted in gold and colours, and others have grotesque subjects at top. The initials are richly executed; several with appropriate figures, but, as to design, coarse and inelegant. On some spare leaves at the beginning and end there are hymns, with "Kyrie eleison," &c. and the music, in a different and later ha...
Scope & Content:
ff. 1b, 151b, 152. Tenor, or contra-tenor, part of the following fragments of Masses, which were probably harmonized for 4 voices: — 1-7. ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Benedictus.’ Seven settings, f. 1b. 8-16. ‘Kyrie.’ Nine settings, including single ones for Feriæ ii-vi, two for Sunday, and two for days not s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century-16th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Lansdowne MS 935-1041

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 935-1041
Title:
Bishop White Kennett's Collections
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
2561 items

9. Lansdowne MS 996

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 996
Title:
Scope & Content:
4to. Vol. LXII. of Bishop Kennett's Collections. includes: ff. 154-163v Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist: Correspondence with Lord Baltimore: 1769-1770: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-18th century
Extent:
7 items

10. Lansdowne MS 1045

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 1045
Title:
Papers on Archbishop Cranmer collected by John Strype
Scope & Content:
Miscellaneous papers, mainly concerning Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), archbishop of Canterbury, collected by John Strype (1643–1737), historian and biographer. Containing an autograph poem by John Dryden (1631–1700), poet, playwright, and critic, on the death of Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), lord...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1556-1659
Extent:

1 volume