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241. Add MS 27697

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Saluces Hours')
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours, described by John Plummer as ‘one of the finest and most inventive manuscripts illuminated during the fifteenth century’ (Plummer, The Last Flowering, p. 56). The manuscript was created in two or three stages, with an initial phase of production around 1440-50, and a second arou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1470
Extent:
A parchment codex

242. Add MS 27699

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Title:
Gaston Fébus, Livre de la chasse; Livre des oraisons
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an illustrated copy of the Livre de la chasse (Book of the Hunt), a treatise on hunting in Middle French, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III (b. 1331, d. 1391), count of Foix, commonly known as Gaston Fébus. Fébus was regarded as one of the greatest huntsmen of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

243. Add MS 28106

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Title:
Bible ('The Stavelot Bible'), Volume 1
Scope & Content:
The first of two volumes of the Bible, the second being Add MS 28107. Contents: ff. 2v-228r: The Vulgate version of the Bible from Genesis to Malachi, with St. Jerome's Epistle to Paulinus and prefaces, tables of chapters, and Gospel canons, followed by a dated scribal colophon (f. 228v). O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1093-1097
Extent:

A parchment codex, 232 folios

244. Add MS 28107

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Title:
Bible ('The Stavelot Bible'), Volume 2
Scope & Content:
The second of two volumes of the Bible, the first being Add MS 28106. Contents: ff. 3v-239v: The Vulgate version of the Bible from Job to Revelation, with prefaces, tables of chapters, and Gospel canons, with a dated scribal colophon. On the flyleaves and leaves from other manuscripts used ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1093-1097
Extent:

A parchment codex, 241 folios

245. Add MS 28617

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Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a fragmentary copy of The Legend of Good Women, written by the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). The Middle English poem takes the form of a dream vision and tells the stories of ten women from Classical history and mythology. Other copies of the po...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

246. Add MS 28623

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Title:
Diet expenses for the royal household of Henry VII
Scope & Content:
Records of diet expenses for the royal household of Henry VII (1457–1509), king of England and lord of Ireland. From 30 September 1507 to 1 October 1508. Compiled by Sir John Hussey, Baron Hussey (1465/6–1537), nobleman and alleged rebel, in his role as Comptroller of the Household. f. 1r: Titl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1507-1508
Extent:
1 volume

247. Add MS 28640

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Title:
COPIES of political pamphlets, pieces in verse, prophecies, etc., chiefly relating to events of the reign of James I., and particularly to the proposed marriage between Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Infanta of Spain, about 1620-1625, and at subsequent periods; made by [John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, co. Suffolk. See Add. MS. 22,959]:- 1. "Vox populi, or Newes from Spaine; author Tho. Scotte of Norwold in Norff.;" Nov. 1620, f. 1. 2. Prophecy of Merlin: "A Prince out of the Nor...
Scope & Content:
John Rous, Rector of Stanton Downham, county Suffolk: Diary: 1620-1643. Political and Satirical Poems: Pieces relating to the Spanish match: 17th cent. Charles I of England: Diaries of political events, by Rev. J. Rous: 1625-1643. Charles I of England: Tracts and poems referring to his propos...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

248. Add MS 28681

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Title:
Psalter ('The Map Psalter') with added miniatures
Scope & Content:
The Map Psalter takes its name from its full-page illustration of a map of the world (on f. 9r), whose design shares close parallels with the famous mappa mundi, now housed at Hereford Cathedral. The manuscript was made in London during the second half of the 13th century. The Psalter’s calendar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1262-1300
Extent:

1 volume

249. Add MS 28725

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Title:
Physician's folding almanac
Scope & Content:
Contents: A physician's portable almanac consisting of a calendar, tables and diagrams, including: f. 1r: Table of moveable feasts; f. 1v: Astronomical table; ff. 2r-5v: Kalendarium for January to December; ff. 6r-6v: Table of eclipses from 1460-1481; f. 7r: Vein man ('Homo Venarum'); f. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1463
Extent:

7 folios, each folded into 8 parts

250. Add MS 28841

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Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Virtues and Vices, and an anonymous prose history of Sicily (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This item comprises 7 parchment leaves from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the time of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

7 parchment leaves

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