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441. Add MS 72426

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Title:
Diplomatic correspondence, primarily English, 1614-1636
Scope & Content:
This is a file of the Trumbull papers, which came to the family through Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), government official and poet. Wekherlin came to England with experience of government in Württemberg and active support for Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth. He was c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
24 Mar 1614-26 May 1636
Extent:
1 file

442. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder

443. Add MS 72707

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Title:
A leaf from a Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Hungerford Hours')
Scope & Content:
Content: A single leaf containing part of the Litany of Saints (Confessors and Virgins) from the Hungerford Hours. The British Library holds additional leaves from the original Book of Hours: Additional MS 61887 (six folios from the Calendar) and Additional MS 62106 (a single leaf from the h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330
Extent:
Parchment leaf.

444. Add MS 74234

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Title:
Petrus Appolonius Collatius, Epistolarum liber ad Pium secundum Pontificem Maximum de exhortatione in Turchos
Scope & Content:
The main text in this volume is a poem by the Italian poet Petrus Appollonius Collatius (b. c. 1435, d. after 1500), also known as Pietro Apollonio Collazio (see https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-apollonio-massimo-collazio_(Dizionario-Biografico, accessed 2 September 2021). The work is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

445. Add MS 82370

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Title:
An Elizabethan anthology ('The Household Book of John Hanson')
Scope & Content:
This provincial household book, compiled around 1590, was originally believed to be the production of one John Stanhope, a 16th-century family patriarch, whose name appears in red ink on the first folio of the manuscript. However, it was subsequently discovered that the dominant hand throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

446. Add MS 82931

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Title:
Liber de Hyda or Liber Abbatiae: a chronicle-cartulary of Hyde Abbey, AD 455-1023, compiled from earlier sources
Scope & Content:
Content: The present manuscript contains copies of twenty-three Anglo-Saxon charters, seven Anglo-Saxon wills, and one set of Anglo-Saxon bounds. Hyde Abbey was founded by Edward the Elder as the New Minster, Winchester in 901, and refounded by King Edgar in 964. The abbey was removed to Hyde,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, English, Old, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 15th century
Extent:

A parchment codex, 39 folios.

447. Add MS 82945

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Title:
Hours of the Passion ('the Wardington Hours')
Scope & Content:
This copy of the Hours of the Passion, known as the Wardington Hours was produced in Paris during the 15th century. Work on the volume had probably begun in the second decade of the century, but was left unfinished for 20-30 years. In around 1440 the eight illustrations and their accompanying il...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1410-c 1440
Extent:

Parchment codex.

448. Add MS 82947

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Title:
Peter of Poitiers, Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi and Allegoriae super Leviticum (attributed to Peter of Poitiers)
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: ff. 1r-47v: Peter of Poitiers, Allegoriae super tabernaculum Moysi, incipit: 'Secretum dei intentos debet facere'; ff. 48r-48v: Michael of Meaux, Proemium apostoli and Proemium psalterii, incipit: 'Quatuor sunt genera apostolorum'; ff. 49r-123r: Allegoriae super Levi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

Parchment codex; 123 folios.

449. Add MS 82948

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Title:
Fragments of treatises on hunting ('The 'Kerdeston Hunting Book')
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of fragments from hunting treatises, belonging to Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Claxton, Norfolk (b. c. 1395, d. 1446) and his second wife, Phillippa Trussell (b. after 1396, d. 1452). The first folio may originate from another of Kerdeston's manuscripts, as the scrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1420-1430
Extent:

1 volume

450. Add MS 82949

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Title:
The 'Kerdeston Hawking Book': a collection of treatises on hawking.
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-26v, A dialogue on hawking between Cosmas and Ypocras, incipit, 'Thys boke folwyng treteth of all maner nature of hawkys fyst of all hawkes of the ere and her sekenesse', explicit, 'that othyr flech of fowles is noght holsum bot yif it be bete for the betyng maketh the flech be...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1430-1445
Extent:

A parchment codex, 79 folios.

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