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131. Add MS 42518

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Title:
Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed; with autograph notes by Gabriel Harvey
Scope & Content:
This book contains the publication by Thomas Speght (d. 1621) of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Workes of our Antient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed (London: Islip, 1598). It features autograph notes by the scholar and writer Gabriel Harvey (b. 1552/3, d. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1598
Extent:
1 item

132. Add MS 45131

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Title:
Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume I
Scope & Content:
ff. i–204r: Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume I, relating to funerals. Parts of the manuscript are in Wriothesley's hand, notably ff. 13, 36, 50v–51r, 67v–68r, 69v–72r, 79, 137, 151r–154v, and 159r–162r; but the signatures on ff. 143 (‘thomas writhesley’, altered from ‘thomas writhe’), 14...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

133. Add MS 45132

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Title:
Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume II
Scope & Content:
Wriothesley heraldic collections, volume II. Miscellaneous heraldic and historical material, parts of which are in Thomas Wriothesley's hand. f. vi: Notes from the compiler of the standards; written in the same hand as f. 69r. ff. 1v–9r: Copies of documents, mostly relating to the marriage of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

134. Add MS 46367

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Title:
Harington Papers, volume II
Scope & Content:
ff. i–143v: Harington Papers, ‘Prose No. II’, comprising copies of letters, etc., c. 1544–1581, with later additions mainly in the hand of John Harington, MP (d. 1564). One of the two main hands (ff. 7–17 and throughout) is the same as that in Add MS 46366, ff. 1–78. Contents: f. i: Notes on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1544-1653
Extent:
1 volume

135. Add MS 46369

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Title:
Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs, 1594-1599
Scope & Content:
Journals and papers relating to Irish affairs between 1594 and 1599. Compiled and partly composed by Sir John Harington, courtier and author (bap. 1560, d. 1612). With later additions. Volume IV of the Harington Papers (Add MS 46366-46384). ff. 1r-2v, 64r-65v: Notes and pen-trials, on the vers...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1594-1599
Extent:
1 volume

136. Add MS 46454

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Title:
Talbot papers, volume I
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–30r: Volume I of the Shrewsbury (Talbot) papers. Twenty-nine royal letters to or concerning Sir Gilbert Talbot as Deputy Lieutenant of Calais and beginning with the commission in 1495 for his installation as Knight of the Garter. Henry VIII reappointed him to Calais at the beginning of th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1495-1685
Extent:
1 volume

137. Add MS 46455

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Title:
Talbot papers, volume II
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–154v: A volume of letters and papers from Jean de Blicquy de Houpplines, French Secretary at Calais, from the reign of Henry VII and the early years of the reign of Henry VIII. f. 1r: Copy of a letter in French from the Lieutenant General of Bailiwick, Amiens to [Richard Nanfan], the Dep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1513
Extent:
1 volume

138. Add MS 46456

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Title:
Talbot Papers, volume III
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–168v: Papers of Jean de Blicquy de Houpplines, French Secretary at Calais, from the reigns of Henry VII and VIII. f. 1r: Draft letter in French from Jean de Blicquy de Houpplines, French Secretary at Calais to Madame de Brouay, 1504; draft letter in French from de Houpplines to the Senes...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1513
Extent:
1 volume

139. Add MS 47673

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Title:
Gospels (the 'Schuttern Gospels')
Scope & Content:
This manuscript was made at the Benedictine abbey of Schuttern, by the deacon Liutharius and commissioned by Abbot Bertrich. It was probably copied from a deluxe exemplar from the abbey of Reichenau (see Léon Dorez, Evangéliaire exécuté à l'abbaye de Schuttern (1905), p. 298). Contents: ff. 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
816-825
Extent:
A parchment codex.

140. Add MS 47683

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Title:
Detached leaf from a giant Bible
Scope & Content:
This detached leaf and conjoint stub probably formed part of a giant Bible, made in Central Italy between the 11th and 12th centuries. The recto contains 1 miniature in colours, depicting the seven-branched golden candlestick described in Exodus (25: 31-39). It also features a Latin commentary...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
11th century-12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

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