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251. Add MS 28962

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Title:
Psalter and Hours, Dominican use (the 'Prayerbook of Alphonso V of Aragon')
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 3r-14v: Calendar with Dominican saints: St Thomas Aquinas, St Peter Martyr, St Dominic and the Translation of St Dominic. ff. 15r: Prayers including: morning prayers (ff. 15r-19r); a prayer to the Angel Custodian 'Angele dei cui dispensatione' (ff. 19r-20r); eveni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1436-1443
Extent:

Parchment codex

252. 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

253. Add MS 29301

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Title:
Collection of medical treatises and recipes, including John Arderne's Liber receptorum medicinarum and Practica de fistula in ano
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of medical treatises, written in Latin and Middle English. They include two illustrated medical works by John Arderne (b. 1307, d. 1392), a renowned English surgeon who saw active military service during the Hundred Years' War. The first, the Liber receptoru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

254. Add MS 29431

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Title:
State letters, 1472–1538
Scope & Content:
A volume containing five documents. These include two holograph letters, a bill of jewels to be delivered to King Henry VIII, and two copies of letters. ff. 1r–2v: Holograph letter with seal from [Richard Croke, D.D., Greek reader at the King's, afterwards Christ Church College, Oxford] to [Tho...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

255. Add MS 29433

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
The miniatures in this Book of Hours are the work of a Bolognese artist active in Paris during the first decade of the 15th century, known as the Master of the Brussels Initials after his work in the Très Belles Heures of Jean, duke of Berry (Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS 11060-61). Although...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1400-1410
Extent:

A parchment codex

256. Add MS 29502

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of English kings to Edward III with an armorial
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle from the reign of Egbert to Edward III and of the Lancastrians to Henry V, with commentary in English and an added armorial. Face: Membrane 1: A diagram of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy surrounded by four armorial shields. Membranes 1-2: A genealogical diagra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:

1 roll

257. Add MS 29504

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of kings of England and Scotland and the dukes of Normandy
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle with commentary in Latin of the kings of England from 'Aethelstan', described as the father of Aethelbert and Egbert, to Edward II (r. 1307-1327), with added continuations to the coronation of Henry VI (r. 1422-1461). Face of the roll: Membranes 1-4: A gen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 14th century to 1st half of the 15th century
Extent:

1 roll

258. Add MS 30034

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Title:
Folding calendar
Scope & Content:
An Italian folding calendar for January to November. Contents: The calendar is abbreviated in comparison to the ones found in English folding almanacs. It consists of the golden number, Sunday letter, kalends, ides and nones for each month, saints' feasts and rules for calculating the date o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c. 1381
Extent:

A folded parchment, 15 leaves

259. Add MS 30079

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Title:
Genealogical roll chronicle of the kings of England to Henry III
Scope & Content:
Contents: A genealogical chronicle with a commentary in Latin. This is one of the earliest surviving genealogical rolls of its kind, probably produced between 1265 and the death of Henry III in 1272, with a continuation added before 1307. The Latin commentary is related to John of Wallingford'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1265-1272
Extent:

1 roll

260. Add MS 30337

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Title:
Exultet (the Monte Cassino Exultet Roll)
Scope & Content:
The roll includes the Exultet, a hymn sung by a deacon during the consecration of the Paschal candle, during the Easter Vigil, incipit: 'Exultet iam angelica turba coelorum'. Decoration: 13 unframed miniatures in colours and gold illustrating the text of the Exultet. 2 initials in colours and g...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1075-c 1080
Extent:

Parchment roll

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