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391. Add MS 48093

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Title:
Robert Wingfield, Life of Queen Mary I
Scope & Content:
Life of Queen Mary I (Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae) by Robert Wingfield of Brantham, Suffolk, July 1553–August 1554. The manuscript appears to be unique, and was edited with a translation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Camden Miscellany, xxviii, 1984, pp. 181–301. Wingfield (see MacCulloch, pp. 183–188)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Jul 1553-Aug 1554
Extent:
1 volume

392. Add MS 48180

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Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam'
Scope & Content:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam', 1573 (title and date, f. iv). Latin. Autograph. This was composed at Farnham Castle (f. 5v), in the summer or autumn of 1573 when Leslie was a prisoner under hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1573
Extent:
1 volume.

393. Add MS 49597/1

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Title:
Fragments of English medieval polyphony
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of 15 fragments of English medieval three-part polyphonic settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. The fragments originate from two disjunct leaves containing part of a Credo, three Agnus Dei (the first and third imperfect) and a Sanctus, using square notation on a black fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400
Extent:

15 fragments of two leaves

394. Add MS 49598

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Title:
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold
Scope & Content:
The Benedictional of St Æthelwold, written by the scribe Godeman for St Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester from 963-984. Acquired by the British Museum from Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 1957. The Benedictional of St Æthelwold contains pontifical benedictions for a bish...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
963-984
Extent:

1 volume

395. Add MS 49622

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Title:
Psalter, with calendar, prayers, litany and offices ('The Gorleston Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar. f. 7r: miniature of the Crucifixion (added after the manuscript passed to Norwich Cathedral Priory, c. 1320-1325). f. 7v: prayer before the Psalter, ‘Suscipere dignare domine dues omnipotens hos psalmos quos ego indignus peccator’ (added after the manuscript pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1310-1324
Extent:

A parchment codex

396. Add MS 49999

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Title:
Book of Hours ('The De Brailes Hours') (formerly known as 'The Dyson Perrins Hours')
Scope & Content:
Book of Hours, known as the 'De Brailes Hours' after the Oxford illuminator William de Brailes, who left two signatures in the manuscript (ff. 43r, 47r, see Provenance). The manuscript is one of the earliest known Books of Hours to survive. Its liturgical content is close to the use of Sarum as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1240
Extent:

Parchment codex

397. Add MS 50000

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Title:
Psalter (the 'Oscott Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Psalter in Latin, with a metrical paraphrase of the Psalms in Anglo-Norman French. A leaf excised from this Psalter is now Add. MS 54215 (see Turner, Rediscovered Miniatures (1969)). The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, including the following saints: Milburga (23 February), Oswald (2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman and Latin
Date Range:
c 1265-1270
Extent:

Parchment codex.

398. Add MS 50001

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen', or 'The Hours of Elyzabeth ye quene')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar of Sarum use, but not containing all the feasts described as peculiar to Sarum in W. G. Henderson, The York Missal, 2, Surtees Society, 60 (1874), pp. 271-2. Entries in red include: Richard of Chichester (3 April); Dunstan (19 May); Augustine of Canterbury (26 May...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1415
Extent:

1 volume

399. Add MS 50002

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Mirandola Hours')
Scope & Content:
This lavishly illuminated Book of Hours was probably produced for Galeotto Pico della Mirandola, Prince of Mirandola and Count of Concordia (d. 1499) and his wife, Bianca d'Este (as evidenced by their arms, painted into the border decoration on f. 13r), probably in Northern Italy in the decade b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1499
Extent:

A parchment codex.

400. Add MS 50004

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: A Book of Hours from Spain, consisting of: ff. 1r-63v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome; ff. 65r-69v: Memorials of Saints Christopher, Bernadino of Siena (canonised 1450), Anthony of Padua and Francis. ff. 71r-87r: Prayers: ff. 71r-73v: 'Obsecro te domina sancta maria' (Leroqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

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