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Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1694
Title:: Original letters addressed to Robert Beale (1576-1579, 1587) and to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1585-1587), with other papers concerning English involvement with the Dutch Revolt
Scope & Content:: This volume relates to the English involvement with the Dutch Revolt. The volume was once part of the Yelverton manuscripts, from which it became separated, and it embodies the involvement and preoccupation with the Dutch Revolt of the collection's originator, Robert Beale (1541-1601). Beale w...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1576-1587
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1818
Title:: Letters and papers chiefly relating to Scottish affairs
Scope & Content:: A collection of letters and papers relating to Scottish affairs. ff. 1r–v: Cardinal David Beaton (Archbishop of St Andrews) to 'my lord secretare', Paris, 26 November [1541?]. ff. 2r–v: Mary of Guise, (Queen Dowager of Scotland and James V's widow), taking Patrick, Lord Gray, into the service...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1541-1630
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1821
Title:: Devotional compendium, including the Psalter of the Virgin Mary and the Rosary of the Virgin Mary
Scope & Content:: ff. 3r-5r: a description of the five lilies of the Virgin; ff. 10r-12v: instructions for saying the Psalter of the Virgin Mary; ff. 12v-19r: ‘my daily exercise’, consisting of Psalm 50 (Miserere mei Deus), said in three divisions for various intentions, with a Pater, Ave, and Creed, followed b...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1525-1538
Extent:: A parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1927
Title:: Baptismal register of the church of St Theodor, Basel
Scope & Content:: The first of two baptismal registers of the church of St Theodor, Basel. This volume records baptisms during the years 1490-1625. Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Calendar in Latin. Printed, with rubrics in red. ff. 7r-7v: Ceremonies performed in preparation for use of the baptismal font, comprising: the...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1737
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 1928
Title:: Baptismal register of the church of St Theodor, Basel
Scope & Content:: The second of two baptismal registers of the church of St Theodor, Basel. This volume records baptisms during the years 1626-1737. Contents: ff. 1r-1v: Title-page, with list of rectors of the church of St Theodor, Basel, 1667-1819. ff. 2r-429r: List of baptisms, 1626-1737.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: German and Latin
Date Range:: 1490-1737
Extent:: Paper codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2019
Title:: Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Scope & Content:: Contents: Hours of the Virgin, in Latin, with calendar and prayers in French: ff. 1r-12v: Calendar in French; ff. 13r-20r: Cursus evangeliorum; ff. 20v-29v: Prayers to the Virgin, including 'Obsecro te' and 'O Intemerata'; ff. 30r-103v: Hours of the Virgin; ff. 104r-141v: Penitential...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: 1440-1450
Extent:: A parchment codex, 235 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2124
Title:: Letters and papers relating to Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Babington plot
Scope & Content:: A volume of letters and papers connected with Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Babington plot, found at Bardon House, Somerset, in 1834. ff. 2r–3v: Summary of the charges brought against Mary by Parliament [May 1572]. See also Cotton MS Caligula B VIII, f. 240. ff. 4r–5v: Instructions given to W...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1572-1588
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2615
Title:: Office for the Feast of the Circumsion; Hymns; Miracle play on the history of Daniel
Scope & Content:: Contents: A collection of texts set to music, with notation on 4-line staves for three voices. The manuscript is composite, in three parts: (ff. 1–78; 79–94v; 95–110). ff. 1r–68v: Office for the feast of the Circumcision (including, ff. 43r–44v, ‘Orientis partibus adventavit asinus’). A seri...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French and Latin
Date Range:: c 1227-c 1234
Extent:: Parchment codex

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2622
Title:: Collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture and astronomy, including Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe'
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains a collection of treatises on arithmetic, geometry, horticulture, and astronomy, including the 'Treatise on the Astrolabe', an instructional manual written by Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 2r-12v: De ratione temporum, a set of mnemonic verses ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:: 3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Egerton MS 2642
Title:: Robert Commaundre's heraldic and historical commonplace book
Scope & Content:: ff. 2r–418v: ‘The Booke of Heraldrye and other thinges togither with the Order of Coronacions’; a commonplace book chiefly of heraldic and historical collections by Robert Commaundre (d. 1613), Rector of Tarporley, Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney (see f. 254r). The book was compiled in...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1575-1625
Extent:: 1 volume

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