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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31920, ff 1r-94v
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Scope & Content:: Gospel lections, imperfect and mutilated, from Easter Sunday up to Cheesefare Sunday, ff 3r-94v, preceded by a Latin text, ff 1r-2v, dating from the end of the 13th century and perhaps written in an English hand, likely added to the manuscript at a very late stage, perhaps when it was put in its ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-13th century
Extent:: 94 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32006
Title:: An English arma Christi roll
Scope & Content:: This so-called arma Christi roll is one of the ten extant late-medieval English rolls with the Middle English poem O Vernicle - a poem on the different instruments of Christ's suffering - illustrated with images of the arma Christi at its relevant stanzas. The reason why the poem was frequently ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 2nd half of the fifteenth century
Extent:: Parchment roll

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32091
Title:: State papers and documents, 1087-1575
Scope & Content:: Volume I of state papers and documents owned by the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire. Covering the period 1087-1575. ff. 1r-2v Transcript of the foundation charter of Battle Abbey, Sussex [1086-1087]. Latin. Another copy is in Harley Ch. 83 A. 12. ff. 3r-12v Leaves from a manuscri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 12th century-1575
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32092
Title:: State papers and documents, 1576-1624
Scope & Content:: Volume II of state papers and documents owned by the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire. Covering the period 1576-1624. ff. 1r-2v Letter from Johannes Sturmius, Rector of the Academy at Strassburg, to Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury. On Grindal’s appointment to that see. Arg...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1576-1624
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32377
Title:: Collection of In nomines, etc., without words, followed (at f. 26) by sacred compositions in parts, and (at f. 78) by three Italian songs; by English composers of the 16th century.
Scope & Content:: ff. 2-25b passim, 75b, 76. Single parts (? for treble viol) of the following 5-part compositions.1. Piece ['Browning . . . The leaves be green'], wanting the beginning. 'Byrd.' f. 2. 2. Piece unnamed. Anonymous, ib. 3. 'Preludium.' 'Byrd.' ib. 4. 'Le Bergyre.' Anonymous. f. 5b. 5. 'Non vy dette....
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1584
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32454
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1r-v: Pen-trials and ownership inscriptions. ff. 2r-7v: Calendar, Use of Paris, in French. f. 8r-v: The first leaf of the Hours of the Cross, misplaced. ff. 9r-12r: Gospel Readings. ff. 12r-14v: 'Obsecro te'. ff. 14v-16v: 'O intemerata'. ff. 17r-58r: Hours of the Virgi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c. 1410-c. 1415
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32494
Title:: Gabriel Harvey's commonplace book
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–52v: Gabriel Harvey's commonplace book. A closely written octavo volume, it contains extracts from ancient and contemporary authors (such as Cicero and Sir Hugh Platt), and observations in Latin, English, Italian and Greek on a variety of topics. These include wisdom (f. 26r, 'no wisema...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: Early 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32646
Title:: Transactions between Scotland and England, 1532-1541
Scope & Content:: Official correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland between March 1532 and December 1541. Volume 1 of the Hamilton Papers (Add MSS 32646-32657). f. 1 Modern title page. ff. 2r-3v Memorial credential, from King Henry VIII to Thomas Hawley, Carlisle her...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: [7 Mar 1532]-31 Dec 1541
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 32655
Title:: Transactions between Scotland and England, June-October 1544 (Hamilton Papers)
Scope & Content:: Official correspondence and state papers relating to transactions between England and Scotland between June and October 1544. Volume 10 of the Hamilton Papers (Add MSS 32646-32657). ff. 2r-3v Paper titled ‘Advertisementes out of Scotlande’. c. 1 June 1544. ff. 4r-5v Letter from Edward Seymour,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1 Jun 1544-31 Oct 1544
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 33531
Title:: State papers and correspondence relating to England and Scotland
Scope & Content:: ff. 1r–222v: A volume of papers relating to border affairs between England and Scotland (1528–1594), Scottish state papers and correspondence (1449–1594), and the reign of James VI (1567–1594). Among the papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, are transcripts of the proceedings of the Commissi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1449-c 1594
Extent:: 1 volume

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