451. Add MS 82955
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452. Add MS 88887
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- Add MS 88887
- Title:
- Patterns or models of alphabets and borders (the 'Macclesfield Alphabet Book')
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: A collection of 14 different sets of specimen initials or letters in alphabetical order in Gothic script of the 15th century, with later additions in Humanistic script of the early 16th century (ff. 7r-7v, 13r-14v, 21v-22r). A list of names each beginning with a different letter of t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1475-1525
- Extent:
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A parchment codex.
453. Add MS 88905
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- Add MS 88905
- Title:
- Psalter of Kirkstead Abbey, including a topographical map of northern Lincolnshire
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 1v: Notes on the Calendar; ff. 2r–v: 'Versus ad virginem Mariam, Alma serena pia preclara beata Maria' (Walther, Initia Carminum, no. 799); ff. 3r–v: An account of the baronies of Bolingbroke and Horncastle & Scrivelsby (Lincolnshire), and the grants of pasturage in Wildmore...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1300-15th century
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
454. Add MS 88929
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- Title:
- Prayer-roll of Henry VIII
- Scope & Content:
- Roll containing prayers in Latin and English to the Arma Christi, the Virgin and seven saints. At the top of the roll are the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, which were added at a later date. In addition to decorated initials in gold and colours, as well as rubrics, the roll co...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Latin
- Date Range:
- between 1485-1509
- Extent:
- 1 roll
455. Add MS 88973
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- Add MS 88973
- Title:
- Cartulary of Lacock Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- The earlier of the two Lacock cartularies, numbered '523' in Davis, Medieval Cartularies (1958), p. 59. The later cartulary is Add MS 88974. The core part of the manuscript (ff. 7r-72r) contains charters, rentals and custumaries relating to Lacock Abbey, copied in stages in the thirteenth centu...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 13th century-Early 16th century
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
456. Add MS 88974
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- Add MS 88974
- Title:
- Cartulary of Lacock Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- The later of the two Lacock cartularies, numbered '524' in Davis, Medieval Cartularies (1958), p. 59. The earlier cartulary is Add MS 88973. The core part of the manuscript (ff. 1r-135v) contains charters relating to Lacock Abbey, copied by a single hand in the first half of the fourteenth cent...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- Early 14th century-Early 16th century
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
457. Add MS 89066/1
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- Add MS 89066/1
- Title:
- Eustache Marcadé, Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains the first volume of the Mystère de la Vengeance de Nostre Seigneur Ihesu Crist by Eustache Marcadé (the second volume is Add MS 89066/2). Scene-openings and main stage directions, translated from rubrics, are as follows: - ff. 2r-3v: List of 108 characters and their titl...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1465
- Extent:
- Parchment codex (first of two volumes)
458. Add MS 89067
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- Title:
- A Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng, that the pretensed marriage of Priestes, and professed persones, is no marriage, but altogether vnlawful, and in all ages, and al countreies of Christendome bothe forbidden and also punyshed, published under the name of Thomas Martin (London, Robert Caly, 1554). ESTC S112322; STC 17517. With extensive manuscript annotations.
- Scope & Content:
- In 1549, John Ponet published a treatise in favour of clerical marriage, entitled A Defence for Mariage of Priestes, by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Add. 89067 is Ponet’s personal copy of Stephen Gardiner’s refutation of his treatise, published in 1554 under the name of Thomas Martin. Ponet ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1554-1556
- Extent:
-
1 volume
459. Add MS 89074
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- Add MS 89074
- Title:
- Catholicon Anglicum
- Scope & Content:
- The manuscript contains the only known complete copy of the Catholicon Anglicum, a bilingual English-Latin dictionary compiled anonymously at some point during the fifteenth century. Only one other copy of the Catholicon Anglicum is known to survive: Add MS 15562, an imperfect copy missing many...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Middle and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1483
- Extent:
- Paper codex
460. Add MS 89166
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- Add MS 89166
- Title:
- Grant of arms of Sir Gilbert Dethick (d. 1584) to Jean Belmaine
- Scope & Content:
- A presentation copy of a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick (b. c. 1510, d. 1584), Garter Principal King of Arms, to Jean Belmaine (fl. 1546–1559), French tutor to King Edward VI (r. 1547–1553) and Queen Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603), dated 20 November 1552. The blazon of Belmaine's Arms is a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- French and Latin
- Date Range:
- 20 Nov 1552
- Extent:
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