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351. Add MS 42132

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Fifty-six leaves (mainly non-consecutive) from a breviary (pars estivalis) compiled for use in the diocese of Agen, in France, with music.
Scope & Content:
The manuscript in its present state contains parts of the following offices:- (1) Temporale, 7th-22nd Sundays after Pentecost, ff. 1-12;-(2) Sanctorale, SS. Ambrose and Isidore (4 Apr.)-St Romanus of Blaye (24 Nov.), ff. 13- 52;-(3) Commune sanctorum, ff. 53-55. Included in the Sanctorale are ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
13th century-14th century
Extent:

56 folios

352. Add MS 42497

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Title:
Scenes from the life of John the Baptist
Scope & Content:
Contents: Scenes from the life of John the Baptist, perhaps illustrating the Hortus Deliciarum, originally a polyptych for private devotion or a flabellum (liturgical fan). Verses in Latin on the life of John the Baptist accompanying the images beneath, incipit, 'Nomen dant illi Iohannes grat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1175-1200
Extent:

A parchment strip previously folded as a polyptych or flabellum

353. Add MS 42518

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Title:
Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed; with autograph notes by Gabriel Harvey
Scope & Content:
This book contains the publication by Thomas Speght (d. 1621) of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed (London: Islip, 1598). It features autograph notes by the scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey (b. 1552/3, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 item

354. Add MS 42555

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Title:
Apocalypse ('The Abingdon Apocalypse')
Scope & Content:
Content: Apocalypse in Latin with extracts on alternate pages from a French translation of the Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis, a commentary by Berengaudus. Begins with a five-line French prologue in red and gold. Incipit (f. 5r): 'Ici comence lapokalipse'. Explicit (f. 5r): ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 85 folios

355. Add MS 44874

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Title:
Psalter in Latin with additions ('The Evesham Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-5v, Calendar of the use of the abbey of Evesham, Worcestershire, lacking the months of May, June, July and August. ff. 6v-202r, Psalter, preceded and followed by prayers. ff. 202v-219v, Canticles and Athanasian Creed. ff. 220r-226r, Litany and prayers. The Litany includes th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
after 1246-1325
Extent:

1 volume

356. Add MS 45025

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Title:
Bible fragment from the Book of Kings ('the Ceolfrith or Ceolfrid Bible')
Scope & Content:
Contents: 10 folios, with fragments of an eleventh, from a Bible in the Vulgate version, containing parts of the third and fourth books of Kings, as follows: ff. 1r–4v, 3 Kings 21:17–22:4; IV Kings 1:1–3:25; ff. 5r–6v, 4 Kings 8:27–10:19, imperfect; ff 7r–8v, 4 Kings 15:12–17:15; ff. 9r–v,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
690-716
Extent:

10 folios from a parchment codex

357. Add MS 45131

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Title:
Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume I
Scope & Content:
ff. i–204r: Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume I, relating to funerals. Parts of the manuscript are in Wriothesley's hand, notably ff. 13, 36, 50v–51r, 67v–68r, 69v–72r, 79, 137, 151r–154v, and 159r–162r; but the signatures on ff. 143 (‘thomas writhesley’, altered from ‘thomas writhe’), 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

358. Add MS 45132

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Title:
Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume II
Scope & Content:
Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume II. Miscellaneous heraldic and historical material, parts of which are in Thomas Wriothesley's hand. f. vi: Notes from the compiler of the standards; written in the same hand as f. 69r. ff. 1v–9r: Copies of documents, mostly relating to the marriage of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

359. Add MS 45722

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours')
Scope & Content:
Full-page miniature in colours and gold, of the Adoration of the Magi, introducing Sext in the Hours of the Virgin. This leaf was originally intended to form part of the 'Sforza Hours', the Book of Hours commissioned from the artist Giovan Pietro Birago by Bona Sforza, Duchess of Milan in 1490, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490-1494
Extent:

1 parchment folio.

360. Add MS 46144

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Title:
LACOCK ABBEY MAGNA CARTA 46144. MAGNA CARTA 1225: the exemplification of the Great Charter of Liberties granted by Henry III at Westminster, 11 Feb. 1225, that was sent to the county of Wiltshire and subsequently deposited at Lacock Abbey (see further below). No contemporary enrolment of the charter's text survives, but the Red Book of the Exchequer, in the Public Record Office, contains an early transcript (E. 164/2, ff. 183-184). Two other surviving exemplifications are respectively among...
Scope & Content:
Law OF ENGLAND: Magna Carta: 1225.: Lat. Lacock Abbey; Wiltshire: Magna Carta from: 1225. Henry III of England: Magna Carta: 1225: Great Seal.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1225
Extent:
1 item

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