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181. Add MS 72438

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Title:
Cipher-keys and intercepted royalist correspondence from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, government official, 1625-1647
Scope & Content:
Trumbull Papers. Vol. 197. Cipher-keys, c. 1625-1645, and intercepted royalist correspondence, 1645-47, from the papers of Georg Rudolph Weckherlin. Weckherlin, a German immigrant, began his career as a government official, as a diplomatic secretary and cryptographer to various secretaries of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1647
Extent:
1 folder

182. Add MS 74234

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Title:
Petrus Appolonius Collatius, Epistolarum liber ad Pium secundum Pontificem Maximum de exhortatione in Turchos
Scope & Content:
The main text in this volume is a poem by the Italian poet Petrus Appollonius Collatius (b. c. 1435, d. after 1500), also known as Pietro Apollonio Collazio (see https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-apollonio-massimo-collazio_(Dizionario-Biografico, accessed 2 September 2021). The work is...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

183. Add MS 82370

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Title:
An Elizabethan anthology ('The Household Book of John Hanson')
Scope & Content:
This provincial household book, compiled around 1590, was originally believed to be the production of one John Stanhope, a 16th-century family patriarch, whose name appears in red ink on the first folio of the manuscript. However, it was subsequently discovered that the dominant hand throughout ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1590
Extent:
1 volume

184. Add MS 82955

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Title:
Historia Animalium
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1-245r: Liber Animalium, consisting of 245 pen-and-ink drawings of different species of animals and mythical creatures, each accompanied by a description, beginning 'Cui rei data est fabula ut hoc ita accidat aquile quonia cu[m] olim homo esset sospiti iniuria'. The descriptions ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1595
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Paper codex

185. Add MS 88905

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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
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Parchment codex

186. Add MS 89166

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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:

1 leaf

187. Add MS 89168

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Title:
Cartulary of Combermere Abbey
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r–9v: Register of the lands and tenements of Combermere Abbey, containing copies of 42 leases and indentures from the 13th to 16th centuries: ‘Registerium Omnium et singularum terrarum et tenementum ad monasterium de Cambirmere pertinentum in Wico malbano Jacentum, et per Indenturas ad term...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1524-1529
Extent:

1 volume

188. Add MS 89309

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Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Paris (‘The Southwark Hours’)
Scope & Content:
A Book of Hours in Latin with some French, made in Paris for an unknown female patron. The illumination is attributed to the ‘Ravenelle Master’, active in Paris between c. 1390 and c. 1410. Ker dates it to ‘probably not long after 1387’ as it contains a memoria of Peter of Luxembourg (b. 1369, d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 14th century
Extent:
A parchment codex

189. Add MS 89378

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Title:
Leaf from an Anglo-Saxon benedictional
Scope & Content:
A leaf from a 10th-century English benedictional, containing the conclusion of the benediction for Easter Day, benedictions for Monday and Tuesday, and the beginning of the benediction for Wednesday after Easter. Begins ‘Ut ad beatae uitae audiae festinantes’; ends ‘dignatus est pro’. Correspon...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
920-970
Extent:
1 volume

190. Add MS 89542

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Title:
Giovanni Battista Gargha, Orationes
Scope & Content:
A presentation copy of the Orationes of Giovanni Battista Gargha of Siena, envoy of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (Hospitallers), made for Fabrizio del Carretto (b. 1455, d. 1521), Italian nobleman and the 43rd Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1513 to 1521. Followed by the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and Latin
Date Range:
1514-c 1522
Extent:
1 volume

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