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301. Add MS 35311

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Title:
Breviary, Use of Rome (the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria')
Scope & Content:
Breviary of the Use of Rome, known as the 'Breviary of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria'. This manuscript comprises the winter portion of the Breviary made for John the Fearless (b. 1371, d. 1419), Duke of Bavaria, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria (b. 1363, d. 1423). It originally fo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1413-1419
Extent:
1 volume

302. Add MS 35313

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Title:
Book of Hours, use of Rome (the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, known as the 'London Rothschild Hours' or the 'Hours of Joanna I of Castile'. ff. 1v-7r: Calendar: the saints in red include, St Rémi (local spelling Remigy) and St Bavon (Bavonis) of Ghent (1 October), Donatian, Bishop of Reims [translated to Bruges] (14 October), and Eligius, b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1500
Extent:

Parchment codex

303. Add MS 35318

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Scope & Content:
This Book of Hours, which features the Use of Rome, comes from a Parisian workshop called the 'Bellemare group', which was active c 1530 and responsible for the illuminations of at least ten other Books of Hours (see Orth, Renaissance Manuscripts (2015), II, no. 52). These manuscripts are closel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1530
Extent:

Parchment codex

304. Add MS 35320

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Title:
Pierre Louis de Valtan, Exposition of the Apostles' Creed
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is a presentation copy of an Exposition of the Apostles' Creed, by Pierre Louis de Valtan (d. 1517), Archdeacon of Angers and later Bishop of Rieux. The text is written in rhymed Latin verse, with accompanying short prose texts placed as glosses in the margins. It features a dedi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1495
Extent:
1 volume

305. Add MS 35324

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Title:
Drawings of funeral processions, 1557–1603
Scope & Content:
Drawings of funeral processions, mostly in Indian ink (opaque black); those of Lady Lumley and Elizabeth I are in colour. Originally in rolls, the drawings are now inlaid in cardboard. Volume XV of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's bequest to the British Museum. ff. 1r–6v: 'Funeral processions o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 volume

306. Add MS 35830

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwick Papers vol. 482)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers, principally the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515/16-1571), diplomat and member of parliament. He was appointed ambassador to France in May 1559, two months before the death of King Henry II, and his letters give detailed accounts of his interviews wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1557-1561
Extent:
1 volume

307. Add MS 35831

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Title:
State letters and papers (Hardwicke Papers vol. 483)
Scope & Content:
State letters and papers including the correspondence of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, diplomat and Member of Parliament (1515/16-1571) during his time as Ambassador in France, 1561-1564. f. 1 Letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Queen Elizabeth I: as Queen Elizabeth I is not satisfied with her pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1562-1599
Extent:
1 volume

308. Add MS 35832

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Title:
Hardwicke Papers, Vol. 484. Miscellaneous State Letters, Vol. III, 1615-1625
Scope & Content:
This is one of three volumes of Miscellaneous State Papers, Add MSS 35830-35832, covering the period 1425-1625, a subset of the massive collection of Hardwicke Papers in the British Library (Add MSS 35349-36278): Correspondence and collections of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other membe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1615-1625
Extent:
1 volume

309. Add MS 35840

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Title:
Roger Ascham's letterbook
Scope & Content:
The letterbook of Roger Ascham as Latin Secretary to Queen Mary I (1553–1558). Volume CCCCXCII of the Hardwicke Papers. It contains copies of letters in Latin from Mary to foreign sovereigns, princes and others, 1554–1558, and is largely holograph. Royal MS 13 B I is the continuation of Ascham’s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1554-1558
Extent:
1 volume

310. Add MS 36529

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Title:
Poetry miscellany, collected by the Harington family
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–82r: Poems by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (d. 1547), Sir Thomas Wyatt (d. 1542), and others, collected by Sir John Harington of Stepney (c. 1517–1582) and his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (d. 1612). On f. 29v are the names ‘Francis Haryngton’ and ‘Ellina Harrington’ (whose name is ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1560-1600
Extent:
1 volume

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