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121. Add MS 38823

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Title:
Sir Edward Hoby, Commonplace book
Scope & Content:
Commonplace book of Sir Edward Hoby, politician and diplomat (1560-1617), containing entries on various subjects including America, Parliament, the Isle of Sheppey, the siege of Calais (1346-1347), and Mary, Queen of Scots. ff. i-ii) Remains of two parchment fragments of a 13th-century manuscri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1582-c 1596
Extent:

1 volume

122. Add MS 39758

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Title:
Chronicle and cartulary of Peterborough Abbey ('The Book of Walter of Whittlesey')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a chronicle and cartulary of the Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, St Paul, and St Andrew, Peterborough, partly compiled by the monk Walter of Whittlesey around 1322 to 1329, and largely written in his hand. Whittlesey was also the author, and possibly the illuminator, of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1322-1329
Extent:
1 volume

123. Add MS 39828

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Title:
Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 1
Scope & Content:
Volume 1 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605). ff. 1r-7v Calendar of the Tresham Papers at Rushton Hall. 19th century. ff. 8r-8v Account of the discovery of the Tresham papers in 1828 at Ru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1440-1597
Extent:

1 volume

124. Add MS 39829

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Title:
Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 2
Scope & Content:
Volume 2 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605). ff. 1r-2v Correspondence. Letter from G. Shurrock to Thomas Tresham. 1598. ff. 3r-4v Correspondence. Letters from John Andrew to Thomas Tresha...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1598-1605
Extent:
1 volume

125. Add MS 39830

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Title:
Tresham family correspondence and papers, volume 3
Scope & Content:
Volume 3 of papers relating to the Tresham family of Northamptonshire. Correspondence and papers of Thomas Tresham, gentleman and recusant (1543-1605). Historical and theological material. ff. 2r-3v Oath of allegiance of the Lords to King Henry VI; 24 July 1455. ff. 4r-7v Notes on the divorce ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1455-1605
Extent:
1 volume

126. Add MS 40010

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Title:
Rentals of Fountains Abbey
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of entries from manorial court records and extracts from manorial rentals of the tenants of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire during the 14th and early 15th centuries. The manuscript's original parchment binding is now housed sep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

127. Add MS 40078

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Title:
Parliament roll of arms
Scope & Content:
Parliament roll of arms, dated 5 February 6 Hen. VIII (1515). Containing a list of the Lords spiritual and temporal, with 49 coats of arms, in colour. English and Latin. First published in facsimile in 1829 by former owner Thomas Willement (see Publication Note). A similar roll for the year of 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1515
Extent:
1 item

128. Add MS 40746

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Title:
Bowes papers, 1484-1691
Scope & Content:
Volume 1. Papers relating to the Northern Rebellion of 1569-1570. Including letters, drafts, copies, accounts, musters, and law documents of Sir George Bowes (1527–1580), soldier and administrator. Dating between 1561 and 1691, except for an earlier letter (f. 6r) from Elizabeth Bullmer to Sir R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1484-1691
Extent:
1 volume

129. Add MS 41499 A

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Title:
Entertainments presented by Sir Henry Lee and others before Queen Elizabeth I
Scope & Content:
Entertainments and devices presented by Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611), queen's champion, and others, to Queen Elizabeth I on Queen’s Day and various other occasions. Queen's Day was instituted on 17 November 1570 to commemorate the anniversary of her accession, and Sir Henry Lee acted as Knight of t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1600
Extent:
1 volume

130. Add MS 41667 I

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Title:
Two leaves from a French music book ('The Mac Veagh fragment')
Scope & Content:
Two conjoint leaves (each 280 x 200 mm), known as the Mac Veagh fragment, originally from a French music book, containing six motets in Latin and French, of which only the second is complete. According to a note signed 'T.F.B.' on f. 26r, the fragment was found, in August 1895, in the binding of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

2 leaves

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