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151. Add MS 48043

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Title:
Political tracts, c. 1552-c. 1579
Scope & Content:
This collection of late 16th-century political tracts forms part of the Yelverton Manuscripts, which originate in the collections of the administrator and diplomat Robert Beale (1541-1601). The volume is in its original binding of covers made from a 15th-century antiphoner, and bears a lettered ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1558-1601
Extent:
1 volume

152. Add MS 48044

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Title:
Correspondence and state papers relating to foreign affairs and parliament, 1525-1625
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. Including original correspondence of English ambassadors in France and Rome, 1530-1533, as well as documents relating to the Netherlands, the 1604 Treaty of London, and the Spanish Match. ff. 4r-5v Letter from Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1525-1625
Extent:
1 volume

153. Add MS 48047

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Title:
Treatises on politics and economics
Scope & Content:
This volume is part of the Yelverton Manuscripts. The initial pasted on the front, H', points to it belonging to the early core of the collection, the library of Robert Beale (1541-1601), administrator and diplomat. It contains some headings and notes, and one text and (probably) one transcripti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1565-1600
Extent:
1 volume

154. Add MS 48064

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Title:
Papers of Robert Beale relating to Elizabethan religious affairs
Scope & Content:
Papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601) relating to Elizabethan religious matters. This volume is largely a matter of copies, often with headings, notes and corrections by Robert Beale. There are some items which are pre-Reformation precedents, and others which relate to religious authority and to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1559-1601
Extent:

1 volume

155. Add MS 48093

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Title:
Robert Wingfield, Life of Queen Mary I
Scope & Content:
Life of Queen Mary I (Vita Mariae Angliae Reginae) by Robert Wingfield of Brantham, Suffolk, July 1553–August 1554. The manuscript appears to be unique, and was edited with a translation by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Camden Miscellany, xxviii, 1984, pp. 181–301. Wingfield (see MacCulloch, pp. 183–188)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Jul 1553-Aug 1554
Extent:
1 volume

156. Add MS 48180

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Title:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam'
Scope & Content:
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 'Tranquilitatis animi praeservatio et munimentum ad serenissimam principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam', 1573 (title and date, f. iv). Latin. Autograph. This was composed at Farnham Castle (f. 5v), in the summer or autumn of 1573 when Leslie was a prisoner under hou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1573
Extent:
1 volume.

157. Add MS 50002

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Mirandola Hours')
Scope & Content:
This lavishly illuminated Book of Hours was probably produced for Galeotto Pico della Mirandola, Prince of Mirandola and Count of Concordia (d. 1499) and his wife, Bianca d'Este (as evidenced by their arms, painted into the border decoration on f. 13r), probably in Northern Italy in the decade b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1490-1499
Extent:

A parchment codex.

158. Add MS 50004

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Title:
Book of Hours
Scope & Content:
Contents: A Book of Hours from Spain, consisting of: ff. 1r-63v: Hours of the Virgin, Use of Rome; ff. 65r-69v: Memorials of Saints Christopher, Bernadino of Siena (canonised 1450), Anthony of Padua and Francis. ff. 71r-87r: Prayers: ff. 71r-73v: 'Obsecro te domina sancta maria' (Leroqu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

Parchment codex

159. Add MS 50483K

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Title:
Aldhelm of Sherborne, De virginitate (prose)
Scope & Content:
This leaf once belonged to one of the earliest known copies of the prose version of De virginitate (On Virginity), a treatise on virginity addressed to the nuns of the double monastery at Barking, written by Aldhelm (b. c. 639, d. 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and Bishop of Sherborne. This fra...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 9th century
Extent:
1 leaf

160. Add MS 52359

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Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum (the 'Penwortham Breviary')
Scope & Content:
A Sarum Breviary with musical notation. Contents: ff. 1r-232v: Temporale (includes liturgies in honour of Thomas Becket, e.g., ff. 52r-v); ff. 233r-238v: Calendar; ff. 239r-283r: Psalter; ff. 283r-284v: Litany, not of Sarum Use, followed by short prayers and benedictions; ff. 285r-35...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1300-1319
Extent:
A parchment codex, 501 folios

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