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411. Add MS 60577

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Title:
The 'Winchester Anthology', a collection of verse and prose, including Francesco Petrarca, Secretum; John Lydgate and Benedict Burgh, Secrees off Old Philosoffres; the Dicta philosophorum, translated by Anthony Woodville; and excerpts from Edmund of Abingdon, Speculum ecclesiae
Scope & Content:
Miscellany of verse and prose (the 'Winchester Anthology'). For a full list of contents, see Wilson and Fenlon 1981. Principal contents: 1. (ff. 1v-3v): Excerpt from a Latin herbal. Incipit (f. 1v): 'Est enim una herba aput Caldeos vocatur yrnos apud grecos maruluel apud latinos eletropia'. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1487-1574
Extent:

1 parchment and paper codex

412. Add MS 60609

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, signed by Britten (f. 2) and dated by him: 'Aldeburgh Dec. 20th 1961' (f. 68). The volume comprises the complete composition, together with additional discarded draft material, as follows: half title (f. 1); epigraph, drawn from Wilfred Owen (f. 1v); title...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

413. Add MS 60610

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66 (full score)
Scope & Content:
Partially autograph music manuscript, in pencil and in black ink, including the hands of two copyists (Imogen Holst and Rosamund Strode) - see Philip Reed, in Mervyn Cooke, Britten: 'War Requiem' (1996), p. 46. Dated (Holst's hand): 'Aldeburgh, December 20th 1961' (f. 137), and annotated (in th...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961
Extent:
1 volume (137 folios)

414. Add MS 60628/1

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Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi
Scope & Content:
This illuminated roll contains a copy of Peter of Poitiers's (Petrus Pictaviensis) (b. c. 1120, d. 1205) Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi, the genealogy of Christ from Adam, created in England in approximately 1250-1260. It is similar in content and arrangement to the Royal MS 14 B IX....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1250-1260
Extent:

A parchment roll.

415. Add MS 60629

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Title:
Psalter
Scope & Content:
Illuminated Psalter with a Calendar, Canticles and Litanies for the use of nuns, as suggested by the petition (f. 169r) and a collect (f. 170r) for ‘nos famulas tuas’. The inclusion of a litany of St Clara, canonised in 1255, dates it to the second half of the 13th century. Originally, decorat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

416. Add MS 61735

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Title:
Farming memoranda of Ely Abbey
Scope & Content:
This may have originally been a manuscript flyleaf, on which working notes were recorded in preparation for more formal accounts. Contents: The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1007-1025
Extent:
A parchment folio, now divided into 3 separate strips

417. Add MS 61822

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Title:
William Briton's miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, including Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella
Scope & Content:
A largely autograph miscellany of Tudor prose and verse, which belonged to William Briton (1564–c. 1636) of Kelston, Somerset. The manuscript began life as a household account-book (ff. 116v–120r) of his father, John Briton or Bryton (d. circa 1586). It consists mainly of entries made by William...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1564-c 1654
Extent:
1 volume

418. Add MS 61823

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Title:
The Book of Margery Kempe
Scope & Content:
This is the unique manuscript witness of the spiritual autobiography of the mystic Margery Kempe [née Brunham] (b. c. 1373, d. in or after 1438) of Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn), Norfolk, who dictated it to two scribes or amanuenses in the 1430s. This copy of the text is datable to c. 1445-c. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1445-c 1450
Extent:

1 volume

419. Add MS 61887

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Title:
Calendar from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: Six folios from the Calendar of the Hungerford Hours. The British Library holds two other leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 62106 (a leaf from None in the Hours of the Virgin) and Additional MS 72707 (a leaf from the Litany). For further identified leaves from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:

6 parchment leaves.

420. Add MS 62103

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Scope & Content:
CHANDOS MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. V. Thomas Roseingrave, Cantatas to English (three), Latin (one) and Italian (six) words, with two Italian arias, all for soprano voice and various instruments, in score. 'Score 1' is written on the spine; presumably one of the 'Two Books full of Cantatas for one V...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[18th century]
Extent:
1 item

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