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421. Add MS 62106

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Title:
A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: A single leaf from the hour of None in the Hours of the Virgin from the Hungerford Hours. The text is preceded by a prayer in French (imperfect), ending: 'a seynte eglise bone pes et unite et a nous peccheours ta gloire benure, qui estes dieus et regnez pardurablement. Amen.' The Br...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:
Parchment leaf

422. Add MS 62135

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Title:
WYATT PAPERS. Vol. I. A collection of documents by and relating to members of the Wyatt family, [1496?]-early 18th cent., compiled by Richard Wyatt (d. 1753); 1727. Partly copies. Partly Latin. Chiefly by and concerning Sir Henry Wyatt (d. 1537), Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (1503-1543), Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (1520-1554), George Wyatt (1554-1624) and Sir Francis Wyatt (d. 1644).
Scope & Content:
WYATT PAPERS. Vol. I. A collection of documents by and relating to members of the Wyatt family, [1496?]-early 18th cent., compiled by Richard Wyatt (d. 1753); 1727. Partly copies. Partly Latin. Chiefly by and concerning Sir Henry Wyatt (d. 1537), Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (1503-1543), Sir Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1495-1799
Extent:
1 volume in two parts

423. Add MS 62925

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Title:
Psalter, Use of Sarum ('The Rutland Psalter')
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar, use of Sarum, with the feasts for each month in red, blue and gold, with small roundels of the labours of the month and the zodiac symbols. ff. 7r-v: Volvelle compass, 15th century insertion. ff. 8v-143r: Psalter, Use of Sarum. ff. 143r-155v: Canticles and Ath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1260
Extent:

Parchment codex; 190 folios.

424. Add MS 62997

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Title:
Leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Rome (the 'Sforza Hours')
Scope & Content:
Detached leaf including on its recto a fragment of a liturgical calendar for 20-30 April, with commemoration for the following saints: Marcellinus of Embrun (20 April), his inclusion perhaps reflecting Lombard practice or the Savoyard influence of Bona Sforza, George (24 April: sic, probably in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1490-1494
Extent:

1 parchment folio.

425. Add MS 69999

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Title:
Anthology of popular tales and fables
Scope & Content:
An anthology of approximately 380 popular tales and fables, used by preachers and others to illustrate moral points. The texts are arranged under subject headings, resembling in this respect the Speculum Laicorum of John of Hoveden (d. 1272-75). See Herbert, Catalogue of Romances, III, pp. 370-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Early 14th century
Extent:
1 volume

426. Add MS 70000

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Title:
Psalter (‘The Percy Psalter’)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an illuminated Psalter made in York in the last quarter of the thirteenth century. It is the first part of the Percy Hours (Add MS 89379), which originally formed a single-volume Psalter-Hours. ff. 1r-2r: added prayers in a 14th-century hand, including the opening to the Gosp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 13th century
Extent:

1 volume

427. Add MS 70001

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Title:
Papers of Sir Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630
Scope & Content:
This volume is largely composed of the papers of Sir Robert Harley (bap. 1579, d. 1656) of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, 1604-1630. However, it opens with a letter to his father Thomas Harley (c. 1543-1631) and with copies of a letter of the divine Samuel Ward (1603). It seems probable that the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1582-1630
Extent:
1 volume

428. Add MS 70517

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Title:
Folding calendar
Scope & Content:
Recto: A sequence of seasons and months of year; a table of Latin numerals i-xxx. Verso: A perpetual calendar with saints' days; calculations of the number of years since biblical events, ending with 1412 years since the birth of Christ. Decoration: Miniatures in colours: the labours of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
? 1412
Extent:
1 folded calendar

429. Add MS 70518

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Title:
Miscellaneous letters and papers, 1540-1706
Scope & Content:
These letters are calendared in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Portland Manuscripts, II, 5-64. They form part of a section of miscellaneous manuscripts amongst the Portland Papers, which were originally held at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Portland Papers were deposited at the British...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1540-1706
Extent:
1 volume

430. Add MS 71009

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Title:
Descriptions of Tudor court ceremonies
Scope & Content:
Collection of papers concerning the organisation of the royal household, including detailed descriptions of sacred and secular court ceremonies, during the reigns of King Edward IV, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. Gathered by John Norris (1522/23-91), courtier, who served as a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1530-1570
Extent:
1 volume

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